Top quotes by John Milton

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. Votes: 32

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. Votes: 25

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. Votes: 25

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. Votes: 21

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. Votes: 20

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. Votes: 19

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. Votes: 15

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. Votes: 14

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Votes: 13

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. Votes: 10

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. Votes: 9

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. Votes: 9

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. Votes: 9

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. Votes: 9

For what can war, but endless war, still breed? Votes: 8

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. Votes: 8

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good. Votes: 8

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. Votes: 8

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns Votes: 7

Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him. Votes: 6

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses Votes: 6

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. Votes: 6

Lords are lordliest in their wine. Votes: 6

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. Votes: 5

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. Votes: 5

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. Votes: 4

Infernal world, and thou profoundest HellReceive thy new Possessor: One who bringsA mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.The mind is its own place, and in it selfCan make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." Votes: 3

... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it. Votes: 3

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. Votes: 3

Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. Votes: 1

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. Votes: 0

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. Votes: 0

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines. Votes: 0

Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Votes: 0

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. Votes: 0

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Votes: 0

God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait. Votes: 0

Every cloud has a silver lining. Votes: 0

The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright. Votes: 0

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. Votes: 0

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Votes: 0

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. Votes: 0

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world. Votes: 0

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. Votes: 0

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. . Votes: 0

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel. Votes: 0

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. Votes: 0

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape. Votes: 0

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood. Votes: 0

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. Votes: 0

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious. Votes: 0

Believe and be confirmed. Votes: 0

With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know. Votes: 0

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. Votes: 0

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. Votes: 0

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Votes: 0

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. Votes: 0

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. Votes: 0

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. Votes: 0

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. Votes: 0

Seas wept from our deep sorrows. Votes: 0

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. Votes: 0

Luck is the residue of design. Votes: 0

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. Votes: 0

The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark. Votes: 0

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Votes: 0

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Votes: 0

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Votes: 0

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things. Votes: 0

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. Votes: 0

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. Votes: 0

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Votes: 0

Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry. Votes: 0

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies. Votes: 0

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. Votes: 0

The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids. Votes: 0

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. Votes: 0

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? Votes: 0

Faithful found among the faithless. Votes: 0

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he. Votes: 0

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. Votes: 0

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round Votes: 0

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes. Votes: 0

Fear of change perplexes monarchs. Votes: 0

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold. Votes: 0

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. Votes: 0

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. Votes: 0

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. Votes: 0

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. Votes: 0

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. Votes: 0

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Votes: 0

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight. Votes: 0

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. Votes: 0

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. Votes: 0

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. Votes: 0

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good! Votes: 0

My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. Votes: 0

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. Votes: 0

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. Votes: 0

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge . Votes: 0

Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. Votes: 0

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger. Votes: 0

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east. Votes: 0

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. Votes: 0

Where more is meant than meets the ear. Votes: 0

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss Votes: 0

From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging. Votes: 0

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings. Votes: 0

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. Votes: 0

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. Votes: 0

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days. Votes: 0

(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. Votes: 0

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. Votes: 0

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship. Votes: 0

Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air? Votes: 0

Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing Votes: 0

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore. Votes: 0

To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. Votes: 0

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. Votes: 0

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief. Votes: 0

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. Votes: 0

Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools. Votes: 0

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command! Votes: 0

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. Votes: 0

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. Votes: 0

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22. Votes: 0

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. Votes: 0

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep... Votes: 0

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. Votes: 0

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. Votes: 0

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour. Votes: 0

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! Votes: 0

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. Votes: 0

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. Votes: 0

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. Votes: 0

Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Votes: 0

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse Votes: 0

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. Votes: 0

Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks. Votes: 0

Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Votes: 0

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Where no hope is left, is left no fear. Votes: 0

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. Votes: 0

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. Votes: 0

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. Votes: 0

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. Votes: 0

Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn! Votes: 0

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Votes: 0

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. Votes: 0

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. Votes: 0

I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. Votes: 0

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Votes: 0

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. Votes: 0

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. Votes: 0

But infinite in pardon is my Judge. Votes: 0

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? Votes: 0

Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific. Votes: 0

Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw. Votes: 0

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope. Votes: 0

Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper. Votes: 0

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth? Votes: 0

It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn? Votes: 0

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save. Votes: 0

Ink is the blood of the printing-press. Votes: 0

By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die. Votes: 0

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Votes: 0

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. Votes: 0

And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain. Votes: 0

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. Votes: 0

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. Votes: 0

So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Votes: 0

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. Votes: 0

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. Votes: 0

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. Votes: 0

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. Votes: 0

And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe. Votes: 0

A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem Votes: 0

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. Votes: 0

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission. Votes: 0

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. Votes: 0

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. Votes: 0

A short retirement urges a sweet return. Votes: 0

Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries. Votes: 0

Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. Votes: 0

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world. Votes: 0

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey. Votes: 0

Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light. Votes: 0

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. Votes: 0

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. Votes: 0

Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity She that has that, is clad in complete steel Votes: 0

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them Votes: 0

Pikiran itu sendiri adalah tempat; di dalamnya ia dapat mengubah neraka menjadi surga atau surga menjadi neraka Votes: 0

For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew? Votes: 0

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. Votes: 0

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe Votes: 0

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom... Votes: 0

But first whom shall we sendIn search of this new world, whom shall we findSufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feetThe dark unbottomed infinite abyssAnd through the palpable obscure find outHis uncouth way, or spread his aery flightUpborne with indefatigable wingsOver the vast abrupt, ere he arriveThe happy isle? Votes: 0

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Votes: 0

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than they sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Votes: 0

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. Votes: 0

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man. Votes: 0

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far. Votes: 0

Infernal world, and thou profoundest HellReceive thy new Possessor: One who bringsA mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.The mind is its own place, and in it selfCan make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. Votes: 0

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth. Votes: 0

Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall. Votes: 0

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. Votes: 0

And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. Votes: 0

But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the bosom of dim NightA glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins her farthest verge, and Chaos to retireAs from her outmost works a broken foeWith tumult less and with less hostile din, Votes: 0

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. Votes: 0

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. Votes: 0

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then~? Votes: 0

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient! Votes: 0

Where shame is, there is also fear. Votes: 0

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Votes: 0

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. Votes: 0

Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars. Votes: 0

Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses. Votes: 0

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. Votes: 0

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Votes: 0

Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st. Votes: 0

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd. Votes: 0

O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. Votes: 0

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular. Votes: 0

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! Votes: 0

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill. Votes: 0

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses. Votes: 0

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield. Votes: 0

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. Votes: 0

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war. Votes: 0

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear. Votes: 0

The rising world of waters dark and deep. Votes: 0

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Votes: 0

Ride the air In whirlwind. Votes: 0

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness. Votes: 0

Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. Votes: 0

And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion? Votes: 0

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. Votes: 0

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. Votes: 0

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. Votes: 0

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. Votes: 0

Solitude sometimes is best society. Votes: 0

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand. Votes: 0

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear. Votes: 0

Antichrist is Mammon's son. Votes: 0

There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth. Votes: 0

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him. Votes: 0

Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire! Woods and groves are of thy dressing; Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. Votes: 0

Solitude is sometimes best society. Votes: 0

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. Votes: 0

What hath night to do with sleep? Votes: 0

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Votes: 0

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost. Votes: 0

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. Votes: 0

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate. Votes: 0

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness. Votes: 0

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin! Votes: 0

The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ. Votes: 0

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. Votes: 0

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. Votes: 0

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. Votes: 0

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring. Votes: 0

The best apology against false accusers is silence. Votes: 0

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Votes: 0

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. Votes: 0

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence. Votes: 0

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness. Votes: 0

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. Votes: 0

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n. Votes: 0

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. Votes: 0

What is strength without a double share of wisdom? Votes: 0

To live a life half dead, a living death. Votes: 0

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering. Votes: 0

And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night... Votes: 0

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements. Votes: 0

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss. Votes: 0

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways. Votes: 0

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. Votes: 0

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing. Votes: 0

Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. Votes: 0

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. Votes: 0

Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. Votes: 0

O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged. Votes: 0

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. Votes: 0

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it Votes: 0

License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. Votes: 0

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind. Votes: 0

In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora. Votes: 0

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God. Votes: 0

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. Votes: 0

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee? Votes: 0

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. Votes: 0

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death. Votes: 0

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. Votes: 0

For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule. Votes: 0

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die. Votes: 0

Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. Votes: 0

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. Votes: 0

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle. Votes: 0

For what is glory but the blaze of fame? Votes: 0

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength. Votes: 0

I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd. Votes: 0

Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works. Votes: 0

God is thy law, thou mine. Votes: 0

And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule. Votes: 0

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil. Votes: 0

Death from sin no power can separate. Votes: 0

Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. Votes: 0

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Votes: 0

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden. Votes: 0

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. Votes: 0

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). Votes: 0

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit. Votes: 0

Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? Votes: 0

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme Votes: 0

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues. Votes: 0

He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. Votes: 0

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon. Votes: 0

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. Votes: 0

Indu'd With sanctity of reason. Votes: 0

It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things [in Genesis] that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. Votes: 0

Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate Votes: 0

Execute their airy purposes. Votes: 0

Such joy ambition finds. Votes: 0

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Votes: 0

Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? Votes: 0

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. Votes: 0

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. Votes: 0

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. Votes: 0

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. Votes: 0

Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. Votes: 0

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all. Votes: 0

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail. Votes: 0

Evil on itself shall back recoil. Votes: 0

Virtue that wavers is not virtue. Votes: 0

Tears such as angels weep. Votes: 0

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err. Votes: 0

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. Votes: 0

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. Votes: 0

Freely we serve, because freely we love. Votes: 0

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons. Votes: 0

Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave. Votes: 0

And out of good still to find means of evil. Votes: 0

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè. Votes: 0

The never-ending flight Of future days. Votes: 0

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. Votes: 0

Reason is also choice. Votes: 0

Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving. Votes: 0

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Votes: 0

He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? Votes: 0

Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words. Votes: 0

Our reason is our law. Votes: 0

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Votes: 0

A bevy of fair women. Votes: 0

But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return! Votes: 0

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. Votes: 0

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint. Votes: 0

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. Votes: 0

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. Votes: 0

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around. Votes: 0

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Votes: 0

My sentence is for open war. Votes: 0

The brazen throat of war. Votes: 0

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease. Votes: 0

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion. Votes: 0

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! Votes: 0

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. Votes: 0

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise Votes: 0

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd. Votes: 0

For evil news rides post, while good news baits. Votes: 0

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap. Votes: 0

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth. Votes: 0

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. Votes: 0

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle. Votes: 0

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge. Votes: 0

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. Votes: 0

What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Votes: 0

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. Votes: 0

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. Votes: 0

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. Votes: 0

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? Votes: 0

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. Votes: 0

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure. Votes: 0

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Votes: 0

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe. Votes: 0

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor. Votes: 0

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom. Votes: 0

Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. Votes: 0

And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Votes: 0

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. Votes: 0

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Votes: 0

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then? Votes: 0

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world. Votes: 0

In naked beauty most adorned. Votes: 0

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not. Votes: 0

Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Votes: 0

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large. Votes: 0

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place. Votes: 0

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd. Votes: 0

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn. Votes: 0

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight. Votes: 0

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself. Votes: 0

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory. Votes: 0

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. Votes: 0

O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command. Votes: 0

Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Votes: 0

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil? Votes: 0

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. Votes: 0

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive. Votes: 0

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey. Votes: 0

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Votes: 0

God made thee perfect, not immutable. Votes: 0

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being. Votes: 0

Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep. Votes: 0

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse. Votes: 0

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant. Votes: 0

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. Votes: 0

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth. Votes: 0

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. Votes: 0

Hell has no benefits, only torture. Votes: 0

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself. Votes: 0

No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality. Votes: 0

He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity. Votes: 0

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. Votes: 0

If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought! Votes: 0

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride. Votes: 0

Vanity is definitely my favorite sin. Votes: 0

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Votes: 0

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent. Votes: 0

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late. Votes: 0

The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. Votes: 0

The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand. Votes: 0

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower. Votes: 0

When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude? Votes: 0

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began. Votes: 0

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. Votes: 0

Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks. Votes: 0

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return. Votes: 0

God shall be all in all. Votes: 0

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. Votes: 0

Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring. Votes: 0

Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear. Votes: 0

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. Votes: 0

But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon. Votes: 0

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate. Votes: 0

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise. Votes: 0

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy. Votes: 0

O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined? Votes: 0

Death to life is crown or shame. Votes: 0

Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity. Votes: 0

Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Votes: 0

Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine? Votes: 0

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms. Votes: 0

When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal. Votes: 0

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use. Votes: 0

Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Votes: 0

These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Votes: 0

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful. Votes: 0

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe! Votes: 0

Solitude is sometimes the best society. Votes: 0

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands. Votes: 0

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements. Votes: 0

But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Votes: 0

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms. Votes: 0

Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. Votes: 0

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled. Votes: 0

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Votes: 0

Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate. Votes: 0

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world. Votes: 0

O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? Votes: 0

And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries. Votes: 0

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst. Votes: 0

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled. Votes: 0

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n. Votes: 0

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook. Votes: 0

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies. Votes: 0

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Votes: 0

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Votes: 0

He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day. Votes: 0

...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father. Votes: 0

Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench Votes: 0

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life. Votes: 0

Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers. Votes: 0

For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil. Votes: 0

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not. Votes: 0

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. Votes: 0

But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer. Votes: 0

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles. Votes: 0

Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight. Votes: 0

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue? Votes: 0

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. Votes: 0

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. Votes: 0

Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy. Votes: 0

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe. Votes: 0

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. Votes: 0

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far. Votes: 0

He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure. Votes: 0

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages. Votes: 0

God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings. Votes: 0

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts. Votes: 0

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear. Votes: 0

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach. Votes: 0

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest. Votes: 0

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears. Votes: 0

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do. Votes: 0

Time is the subtle thief of youth. Votes: 0

Temper justice with mercy. Votes: 0

Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies. Votes: 0

Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men. Votes: 0

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd. Votes: 0

Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote. Votes: 0

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Votes: 0

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive. Votes: 0

There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach. Votes: 0

And feel that I am happier than I know. Votes: 0

To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. Votes: 0

Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife. Votes: 0

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. Votes: 0

Death ready stands to interpose his dart. Votes: 0

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life. Votes: 0

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life. Votes: 0

Courage never to submit of yield. Votes: 0

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation. Votes: 0

At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come. Votes: 0

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. Votes: 0

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd. Votes: 0

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth. Votes: 0

No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities. Votes: 0

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. Votes: 0

Praise from an enemy smells of craft. Votes: 0

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease. Votes: 0

Where all life dies death lives. Votes: 0

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? Votes: 0

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind. Votes: 0

The sacred influence of light appears. Votes: 0

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy. Votes: 0

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse. Votes: 0

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. Votes: 0

Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. Votes: 0

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel. Votes: 0

And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise? Votes: 0

Evil, be thou my good. Votes: 0

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. Votes: 0

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above. Votes: 0

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know. Votes: 0

If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit. Votes: 0

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. Votes: 0

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted. Votes: 0

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes. Votes: 0

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return. Votes: 0

Forget thyself to marble. Votes: 0

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman. Votes: 0

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. Votes: 0

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious. Votes: 0

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. Votes: 0

For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life. Votes: 0

Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children. Votes: 0

Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd. Votes: 0

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course. Votes: 0

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Votes: 0

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love. Votes: 0

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals. Votes: 0

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow. Votes: 0

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child! Votes: 0

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds. Votes: 0

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power. Votes: 0

Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it. Votes: 0

First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol. Votes: 0

Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. Votes: 0

Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep. Votes: 0

Danger will wink on opportunity. Votes: 0

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude. Votes: 0

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all. Votes: 0

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. Votes: 0

All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all. Votes: 0

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung. Votes: 0

What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste? Votes: 0

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer. Votes: 0

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! Votes: 0

All hell broke loose. Votes: 0

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste. Votes: 0

Calm of mind, all passion spent. Votes: 0

God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen? Votes: 0

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. Votes: 0

A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. Votes: 0

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Votes: 0

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost Votes: 0

But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! Votes: 0

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature. Votes: 0

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Votes: 0

Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. Votes: 0

Methought I saw my late espoused saint. Votes: 0

The gay motes that people the sunbeams. Votes: 0

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. Votes: 0

But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger? Votes: 0

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day. Votes: 0

Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world Of destined habitation. Votes: 0

Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. Votes: 0

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Votes: 0

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Votes: 0

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. Votes: 0

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation. Votes: 0

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. Votes: 0

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. Votes: 0

Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love. Votes: 0

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With thee conversing I forget all time. Votes: 0

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse. Votes: 0

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. Votes: 0

Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Votes: 0

With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. Votes: 0

Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Votes: 0

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Votes: 0

In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Votes: 0

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Votes: 0

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. Votes: 0

Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. Votes: 0

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star. Votes: 0

But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. Votes: 0

For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. Votes: 0

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire. Votes: 0

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. Votes: 0

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace? Votes: 0

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection. Votes: 0

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. Votes: 0

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. Votes: 0

Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret. Votes: 0

Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun. Votes: 0

Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Votes: 0

Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day. Votes: 0

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Votes: 0

Hide me from day's garish eye. Votes: 0

From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb. Votes: 0

What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality. Votes: 0

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Votes: 0

Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. Votes: 0

For so I created them free and free they must remain. Votes: 0

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain? Votes: 0

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend... Votes: 0

O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless? Votes: 0

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning. Votes: 0

Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far. Votes: 0

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half Votes: 0

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity; Votes: 0

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,..... Votes: 0

From his lips/Not words alone pleased her. Votes: 0

Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. Votes: 0

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe! Votes: 0

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. Votes: 0

O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. Votes: 0

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure! Votes: 0

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Votes: 0

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Votes: 0

how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp Votes: 0

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail. Votes: 0

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? Votes: 0

Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed. Votes: 0

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need. Votes: 0

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all. Votes: 0

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. Votes: 0

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own. Votes: 0

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew? Votes: 0

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. Votes: 0

Imparadis'd in one another's arms. Votes: 0

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall. Votes: 0

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit. Votes: 0

Such sober certainty of waking bliss. Votes: 0

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. Votes: 0

This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far. Votes: 0

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Votes: 0

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. Votes: 0

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. Votes: 0

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss. Votes: 0

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Votes: 0

What is dark within me, illumine. Votes: 0

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future. Votes: 0

But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending. Votes: 0

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time. Votes: 0

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new. Votes: 0

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! Votes: 0

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. Votes: 0

Our country is where ever we are well off. Votes: 0

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state. Votes: 0

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? Votes: 0

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. Votes: 0

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?. Votes: 0

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. Votes: 0

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light. Votes: 0

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? Votes: 0

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses. Votes: 0

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound. Votes: 0

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want. Votes: 0

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. Votes: 0

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night. Votes: 0

Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all. Votes: 0

Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain? Votes: 0

Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. Votes: 0

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Votes: 0

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. Votes: 0

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. Votes: 0

Wickedness is weakness. Votes: 0

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. Votes: 0

How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator? Votes: 0

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Votes: 0

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought? Votes: 0

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. Votes: 0

And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. Votes: 0

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay. Votes: 0

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. Votes: 0

Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance. Votes: 0

Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. Votes: 0

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success. Votes: 0

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. Votes: 0

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. Votes: 0

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all. Votes: 0

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. Votes: 0

So many laws argues so many sins. Votes: 0

The planets in their station list'ning stood. Votes: 0

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. Votes: 0

For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace. Votes: 0

That power Which erring men call Chance. Votes: 0

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. Votes: 0

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. Votes: 0

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Votes: 0

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict. Votes: 0

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won. Votes: 0

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. Votes: 0

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. Votes: 0

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational. Votes: 0

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all. Votes: 0

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. Votes: 0

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite. Votes: 0

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Votes: 0

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. Votes: 0

Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible. Votes: 0

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth. Votes: 0

Reason also is choice. Votes: 0

She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub. Votes: 0

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? Votes: 0

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair. Votes: 0

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand. Votes: 0

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind. Votes: 0

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train. Votes: 0

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Votes: 0

The timely dew of sleep. Votes: 0

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness. Votes: 0

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize. Votes: 0

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death. Votes: 0

It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them. Votes: 0

The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon. Votes: 0

This is servitude, To serve the unwise. Votes: 0

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life. Votes: 0

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk. Votes: 0

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Votes: 0

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore. Votes: 0

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. Votes: 0

Dark with excessive bright. Votes: 0

My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight! Votes: 0

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Votes: 0

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. Votes: 0

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. Votes: 0

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work. Votes: 0

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Votes: 0

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs. Votes: 0

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. Votes: 0

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Votes: 0

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. Votes: 0

The starry cope Of heaven. Votes: 0

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. Votes: 0

The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. Votes: 0

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand. Votes: 0

They also serve who only stand and wait. Votes: 0

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow? Votes: 0

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat. Votes: 0