John Milton Quotes
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O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
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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.
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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal BenchOf British Themis, with no mean applausePronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,Which others at their Bar so often wrench
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Forget thyself to marble.
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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
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Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,Most musical, most melancholy!
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
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In mirth that after no repenting draws.
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!
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Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.
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From haunted spring and daleEdged with poplar paleThe parting genius is with sighing sent.
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.
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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
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What is dark within me, illumine.
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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.