John Milton Quotes
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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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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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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.
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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
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Execute their airy purposes.
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God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.
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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
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Sometime let gorgeous TragedyIn sceptred pall come sweeping by,Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line,Or the tale of Troy divine.
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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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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.
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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.
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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
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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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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.
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Meadows trim, with daisies pied,Shallow brooks, and rivers wide;Towers and balements it seesBosomed high in tufted trees,Where perhaps some beauty lies,The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
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Without the meed of some melodious tear.
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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.