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Such joy ambition finds.

Such joy ambition finds.

John Milton
Ambition, Joy
1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

John Milton
Hope, Joy, Paradise Lost Book 9
John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.179

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

John Milton
Garden, Two, Joy
1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.65-9.

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

John Milton
Happiness, Farewell, Joy
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 249

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

John Milton
Love, Golden Days, Joy
John Milton (1801). “Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711”, p.77

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

John Milton
Joy, Fleeting, Paradise
1665 Adam's lament. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.741-2.

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

John Milton
Grief, Rivers, Joy

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

John Milton
Fall, Ambition, Joy
1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

John Milton
Sweet, Joy, Drink
John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.402

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

John Milton
Thinking, Joy, Delight
John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.262

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