John Milton Quotes
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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
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Under the shady roofOf branching elm star-proof.
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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.
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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.
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That old man eloquent.
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
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Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
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Herbs, and other country messes,Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.
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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
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Evil on itself shall back recoil.