1608-1674.
Tract on Education.
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and a sullennes against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty.
Introduction to Book 2.
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancy, with his garland and singing robes, about him.
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
Areopagitica.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
Apology for Smectymmius.
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem.