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In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

John Milton
Nature, Spring, Air
'Of Education' (1644) 'Their Exercise'

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

John Milton
Spring, Book, Men
John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

John Milton
Spring, Twilight, Grateful
John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.51

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

John Milton
Spring, Genius, Pale
John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.21

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