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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.


John Milton

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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!
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JOHN MILTON Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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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.
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JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.
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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.
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JOHN MILTON Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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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.
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JOHN MILTON Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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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.
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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!
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