So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.


John Milton

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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.
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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
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON