John Milton Quotes
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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.
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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
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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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Under the shady roofOf branching elm star-proof.
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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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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
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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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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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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
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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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Herbs, and other country messes,Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
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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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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.