He hears a noise at the window: Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering,fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;

VOA: special.2009.02.02

None of England's pre-Miltonic poets -- Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare had dared to suggest -- and it would never have occurred to them to suggest that theirs was actually a divine vocation.

在弥尔顿之前，包括乔叟，斯潘塞和莎士比亚,没人敢这么说-他们从不敢,说自己的职业是神圣的。

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and the forces of nature. I dreaded that first robin so, But he is mastered now, And I'm accustomed to him grown-- He hurts a little though I dared not meet the daffodils, For fear their yellow gown Would pierce me with a fashion So foreign to my own.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Speaking to reporters later, he dared the forces of the provisional government to try to seize or destroy him.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12