I have placed a search tool FOR SEARCHING IN MILTON'S PARADISE LOST in my post of today at my blog wordselect.blogspot.com. I believe that you may like to see and try it.Click
Fill up the blanks, selecting appropriate words from the Choice Box.
SELECTION BOX:
Benighted , Confusion , Gratitude , according , acquaints , everlasting , infinitude, lifeblood , naturally , otherwise , precedence , epiphanies
Phrase/Clause/Sentence- BOX:
1 -- A good book is the precious____of a master spirit ANSWER .
2-- Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely____to ____, above all liberties ANSWER .
3-- He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts____walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon ANSWER .
4-- He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which____would heal and do well ANSWER .
5-- Let not England forget her____of teaching nations how to live ANSWER .
rem: Milton lived 1640 circa. We are now in 2010. Did England really teach? England colonised and occupied several countries in these 400 years. England indulged in slave trade. U.S.A. the colony of Britain revolted in 1776. England has, on the positive side, given to the world the benefits of industrial revolution, such as rail roads.
6-- No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men____were born free ANSWER .
REM:Milton was lofty in his thinking. England disproved that all men inherently were born free.
7-- The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with____oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller ANSWER .
REM: Everlasting oil, a beautiful phrase. The everlasting oil may be solar /wind/ sea-wave power, in today's context. .
8-- The superior man____himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby ANSWER .
REM: Today antiquity has value only in Auction Houses like Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams. Sayings have no value, but the papers on which the sayings were written have value..
9-- ____ heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast ____ confined. ANSWER
10-- ____ bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday ____. ANSWER
REM:Gratitude to whom? our Creator?.
