How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns
John Milton
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And all, save the spirit of man, is divine? LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Enough is as good as a feast. GEORGE CHAPMAN Enough is as good as a feast. JOSHUA SYLVESTER Enough is as good as a feast PROVERB But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in,
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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
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O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
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(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
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Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
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Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
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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;
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Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
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Of miser's treasures. JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
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. . . .
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Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? JOHN MILTON So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
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What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
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Of creatures ... JOHN MILTON For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
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Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
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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:
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