Nor war, or battle's sound / Was heard the world around.
John Milton
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MAX CLELAND Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name,
But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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WILLIAM COWPER 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 The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A war has many battles, but a battle has its own war.
CHRISTOPHER ROSS ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for ...
HAROLD HOLZER A more strange sound than any that is heard anywhere else in the world. It is a more incessant, loud...
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And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;
To carry natu...
WILLIAM COWPER A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M. Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
JOHN MILTON Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
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TANICA S HALL Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
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In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? W...
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VAL KILMER I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.
ROBERT STACK I heard the sound of hard leaves cracking.
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KAREN MAITLAND I've heard pileated woodpeckers make that kind of sound; I've heard crows make that kind of sound in...
JEROME JACKSON I heard around the room a little bit of moaning or sighing.
ALEX ALDAPE Against all the odds, we built a better navy than theirs—from scratch—in two months! We now rule...
JENNIFER MCKEITHEN I am capable of choosing my battles, if that's what it takes to win the war.
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JOHN BROADBENT A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear
...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings,
Nor...
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LESLEY GARRETT I was sitting in my office at about 9:30 a.m. and I heard this rushing sound.
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JIM ED BROWN He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
BIBLE And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made
ready before it was brought thither...
BIBLE Keith fell to the floor and let out this blood-curdling scream. It's a sound I have never heard befo...
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Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I...
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Here for his envy, will not driv...
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JOHN MILTON A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
JOHN MILTON Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
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By force, who reason for their law refuse,
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Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
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By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
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JOHN MILTON Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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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.
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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.
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Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; ...
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And at another to let in the foe?
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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.
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Not harsh and crabb
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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,...
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JOHN MILTON Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not pe...
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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.
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JOHN MILTON Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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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.
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JOHN MILTON It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
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JOHN MILTON Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
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JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
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JOHN MILTON Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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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.
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The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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