What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
John Milton
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Here for his envy, will not driv...
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With sanctity of reason.
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By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
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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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Deserve the precious bane.
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Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
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To them by faith imputed they may find
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Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
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The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
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On the light fantastic toe.
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In a light fantastic round.
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Of wisdom, ...
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L...
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As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
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A thousand liv...
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The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
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Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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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.
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(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o...
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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?
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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 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...
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She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
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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.
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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...
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Among the faithless faithful only he.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
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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 ...
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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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Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
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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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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.
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Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ...
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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!
JOHN MILTON