He onward came, far off his coming shone.
John Milton
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Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote ...
MATTHEW PEARL ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKIN...
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses...
BIBLE He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk;
He steps right onward, martial in his air,
His for...
WILLIAM COWPER Dreams travel far, coming from wishes off stars.
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* When we played them, he was coming off a few weeks break; he was coming off knee surgery. Now you lo...
GARY BRACKETT ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN Where's Magnus?" he said. AS he looked toward the kitchen, Clary saw a bruise on his jaw, below his ...
CASSANDRA CLARE We couldn't believe it. You figured something like that would happen, because he was still coming of...
CHAD CORDERO A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too f...
ALBERT PIKE Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, ...
LIBBA BRAY I always say that Ian Moser came off the mat after he won his third straight state title the same wa...
DICKY HOWELL And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciple...
BIBLE Ava started walking one week before he came home. At first, Ava would cry when John came near me.
JAMIE COLTON I came in tight and he tried to duck underneath, and I came right up under his chest. He fell back, ...
LANCE BRIGGS His sister dropped him off (Tuesday) in the area, and he told her he was going fishing. He never cam...
LT. PAT JOYNER He was as astonished as John Robinson was, ... He couldn't figure out where that flag came from.
JOHN HUBBARD Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS Mike Boyle has really had a great spring so far. He?s really coming into his own as a wide-out. Peop...
CHIP KELLY He was coming up on the right side and I think he bumped into one of his own guys and the ball came ...
ANTHONY MAESTRANZI I guess we're all excited that President Bush announced his nomination to the Supreme Court - John R...
DAVID LETTERMAN I love, love, love John Mayer. He's incredible. I love all of his records and even his John Maye...
SHANE HARPER Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintell...
JOHN BROADBENT A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear
...
JOHN MILTON As far as we know we're coming back.
TOM FOLEY Reggie really sparked us off the bench. He came in with his head focused on helping us win this game...
DEON THOMPSON He ran a great race that day. He just kind of went along head and head to the lead, and at the head ...
BOB HOLTHUS The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother-and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
BRYAN FERRY Actually, the 10 days he took off did him real good letting his body just rest. And when he came bac...
JEFF LINENFELSER And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and h...
BIBLE Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY When a damp/ Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand/ The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew/...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH He had quite a day. He was the star who shone for us Saturday.
ADAM ESTRADA After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopen...
RON CHERNOW I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
TAB HUNTER Robert has really added another dimension coming off the edge. And Cato is really coming into his ow...
MONTAE REAGOR And when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH He would wander off a lot, but he always came back.
SHIRLEY HAMSTRA The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there...
R. W. DALE John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.
VINNIE JONES Ryan Karr played really well. Zach Sykes played really well. He got beat by John Dixon, but John Dix...
ERIC LYONS John is super committed to his plan. Everybody has a plan. But the key to John is that he sticks to ...
DAN HENNING The wave came up and swooped him under and he didn't come back up - they found him not far from home...
ERNIE JACKSON He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.
(on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991)
TORRIN POLK No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a...
MATTHEW PEARL Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I...
JOHN MILTON Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN SHUT UP. Both of you. You're coming with me." To me he said, "Put some pants on."
"Fuck y...
DAVID WONG There's nobody like John, even today. He was unique in his shooting style,
BEN GAZZARA The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.
TOBE BERKOVITZ The time groaned by as John made a fool of himself. Eventually, he grew numb to the death and sin ar...
SOLANGE NICOLE I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bri...
BOB UECKER He ran pretty well. And he was coming off a good week of work.
DARIN SHEPARDSON When I was 6 years old we were called up into his office and John Wayne was sitting there. He deputi...
CHERI BROWN An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongsid...
ALAN KING John Roberts is no longer a blank slate, he has an extensive record and that record is far outside t...
DEBRA L. NESS As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressivenes...
MARIO ANDRETTI He made it clear that he could not see coming off the bench in Detroit and fitting in there. Not wit...
BOB GIST When John came, it was sent from heaven.
LIONEL DAGGS Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His m...
BAHA'U'LLAH Amazing. Just an amazing kid. The kid was loaded with talent, and worked his butt off. It (the fall)...
JASON HAYES As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothin...
BIBLE John has done a remarkable thing in that he got knocked off the leadership ladder and has resurrecte...
VIN WEBER He started coming toward me with something like a metal rod or something in his hand. I sort of some...
JOSEPH CLARK Blake is coming off an injury and we are bringing him back slowly. He is coming back very well.
GALE GROSS A star shone at the hour of our meeting.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He could be a valuable player coming off the bench for us.
JOHN FARRELL Because John is being John, people don't see his intensity. He wants to be a leader on this team. No...
TONY AGNONE The biggest thing is he's got range, and he's the best catch-and-shoot guy in Canada right now. Comi...
CRAIG BEAUCAMP Coming off that Pennington game, he had a little extra incentive against Hamilton. Taylor was ahead ...
BRIAN CARTER Devon knows he didn't have one of his best days. It has to be tough for him, coming off the Watervil...
COREY LESSARD The sun rose in my life. At first, as dawn breaking on the horizon, almost as if to say, this is whe...
KARL OVE KNAUSGåRD John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for h...
TERESA HEINZ KERRY He made all countries where he came his own.
JOHN DRYDEN The president's vantage point is ground level, ... Mine is very high. I can see what's coming. He ca...
CHARLIE BROTMAN It's a little bit more to do with off-the-field ? academics and some things like that. (Head coach J...
CHUCK DRIESBACH He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen.
[Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) It felt like his whole hand came through my eye, like he broke part of it off in there. I think it's...
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BOB UECKER And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what ...
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DENNIS WEAVER John was politically conservative. He was comfortable with it, but it didn't define his friendships,
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DAVE WILLIAMS I wasn't angry; I just saw his reaction. He tried to get up off the ground, and he said, 'Hey man!' ...
JULIAN TAVAREZ Not in any situation where he had to shoot it. He came off screens, the guy sags off of him, he feel...
HAL MCMANUS But now at last the sacred influence
Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n
Shoots ...
JOHN MILTON They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
JOHN MILTON Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON for God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son' John 3:16
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DAVID WONG Overall, it's a top-50 class. What (Michigan State coach John L. Smith) needed to do is get some Ban...
CHRIS POOL John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life ...
RICHARD LAZARUS And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and...
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
JOHN MILTON Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the ...
JOHN MILTON No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
JOHN MILTON Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kil...
JOHN MILTON Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
JOHN MILTON A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
JOHN MILTON He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid...
JOHN MILTON The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and comm...
JOHN MILTON For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
JOHN MILTON How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down...
JOHN MILTON Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libe...
JOHN MILTON A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
JOHN MILTON Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
JOHN MILTON Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
JOHN MILTON But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
T...
JOHN MILTON The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON The rising world of waters dark and deep.
JOHN MILTON Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flo...
JOHN MILTON Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills r...
JOHN MILTON Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as act...
JOHN MILTON Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bl...
JOHN MILTON Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
JOHN MILTON Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
JOHN MILTON Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear u...
JOHN MILTON That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, a...
JOHN MILTON O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
JOHN MILTON If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
JOHN MILTON Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; ...
JOHN MILTON What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
JOHN MILTON Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
JOHN MILTON Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who
could not hear the music.
JOHN MILTON Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
JOHN MILTON Come and trip it as ye go,
On the light fantastic toe.
JOHN MILTON Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
JOHN MILTON Solitude sometimes is best society.
JOHN MILTON Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
JOHN MILTON What hath night to do with sleep?
JOHN MILTON Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moment...
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,...
JOHN MILTON How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb
JOHN MILTON When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound ...
JOHN MILTON Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON License they mean when they cry liberty.
JOHN MILTON Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,...
JOHN MILTON And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and ...
JOHN MILTON Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not pe...
JOHN MILTON As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's im...
JOHN MILTON Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON With thee conversing I forget all time.
JOHN MILTON He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
JOHN MILTON Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
JOHN MILTON Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, blo...
JOHN MILTON Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
JOHN MILTON Our country is where ever we are well off.
JOHN MILTON What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He tha...
JOHN MILTON To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or begga...
JOHN MILTON When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
JOHN MILTON Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
JOHN MILTON Reason also is choice.
JOHN MILTON For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God a...
JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid...
JOHN MILTON A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th...
JOHN MILTON It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
JOHN MILTON Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time ...
JOHN MILTON Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather th...
JOHN MILTON Lords are lordliest in their wine.
JOHN MILTON Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
JOHN MILTON From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scann...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
JOHN MILTON Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
JOHN MILTON And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
JOHN MILTON Tears such as angels weep.
JOHN MILTON Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
JOHN MILTON What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi...
JOHN MILTON Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
JOHN MILTON In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.
JOHN MILTON Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot...
JOHN MILTON If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
M...
JOHN MILTON . . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
JOHN MILTON He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
JOHN MILTON Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
JOHN MILTON Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread.
JOHN MILTON Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
JOHN MILTON In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o...
JOHN MILTON But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-w...
JOHN MILTON While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the bar...
JOHN MILTON So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
JOHN MILTON There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over thi...
JOHN MILTON Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn,
Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,
Of wedde...
JOHN MILTON The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
JOHN MILTON A short retirement urges a sweet return.
JOHN MILTON What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
JOHN MILTON When I consider how my light is spent
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
JOHN MILTON Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
JOHN MILTON Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
JOHN MILTON From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills...
JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of ...
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, o...
JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,
Th...
JOHN MILTON To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge...
JOHN MILTON So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.
JOHN MILTON (Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
JOHN MILTON That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense, and as they please
...
JOHN MILTON Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
JOHN MILTON Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
JOHN MILTON A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's ...
JOHN MILTON Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
JOHN MILTON Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
JOHN MILTON Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a...
JOHN MILTON Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
JOHN MILTON Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
JOHN MILTON O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;
Thou wi...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
JOHN MILTON For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is ac...
JOHN MILTON And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
JOHN MILTON Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
JOHN MILTON Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
JOHN MILTON So on he fares, and to the border comes,
Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, crowns...
JOHN MILTON From that high mount of God whence light and shade
Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
JOHN MILTON For such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, ro...
JOHN MILTON The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
JOHN MILTON These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
JOHN MILTON Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
JOHN MILTON With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o...
JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasures.
JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meander's mar...
JOHN MILTON Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
JOHN MILTON Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras.
JOHN MILTON For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.
JOHN MILTON Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.
JOHN MILTON Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
JOHN MILTON Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
JOHN MILTON For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine...
JOHN MILTON Power ought to serve as a check to power.
JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
JOHN MILTON He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
JOHN MILTON So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
JOHN MILTON If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
JOHN MILTON Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures ...
JOHN MILTON For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher ...
JOHN MILTON Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
JOHN MILTON Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
JOHN MILTON I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
JOHN MILTON For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ...
JOHN MILTON The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON