How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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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
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Of right or hope; but still bear u... JOHN MILTON That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
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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
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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;
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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,
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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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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,
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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
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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 How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! JOHN MILTON