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.
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Related Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a... JOHN MILTON The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's ... MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction... DOMINIC RICCITELLO The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak
And stared with his foot on the prey. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Word For The Day KERFUFFLE (kuhr FUF uhl) n. Disorder; uproar; confusion DEB BAKER Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sens... GEORGE SANTAYANA Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered... JOHN MILTON His teammates were laughing at him when he fell, ... BRYAN DAVIS The boy stood on the burning deck - / Whence all but he had fled. FELICIA HEMANS And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror. PATRICK SüSKIND The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he awhile
Thought him stil... JOHN MILTON And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding th... BIBLE It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker. MARGARET MAHY There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago. EUGENE ORMANDY His hair stood upright like porcupine quills. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's eve... MICHAEL GRANT, LIGHT (GONE SERIES, #6) It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. D... HELEN HUMPHREYS I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me. AZAR NAFISI В молчании — слово, А свет лишь во тьме. И жизнь по... Урсула Ле Гуин Что за смех, что за радость, когда мир постоянно горит? �... BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI Каким бы темным и страшным не казался тебе сейчас мир, �... GOTHAM Грех не в темноте, а в нежелании света. Цветаева М.И. Легче зажечь одну маленькую свечу, чем клясть темноту. Конфуций অন্ধকারে চেরাগ জ্বালানো' আর 'অন্ধের সা... SHOBUJ TAPOSH Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His m... BAHA'U'LLAH It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on. JULIEN TORMA Like a knight in glittering armor, Laughter Stood up at his side. WILLIAM ROSE BENET For every item that carries the darkness of humanity there's one that holds the light. And that ligh... C.M. RAYNE I stood in the blue darkness and looked in awe at the Earth from the lunar surface. What I saw was a... EUGENE CERNAN Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they neve... COURTNEY M. PRIVETT Upon the brink of the wild streamHe stood, and dreamt a mighty dream. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN His values didn't come from athletics, but it was his faith in Christ. He just lived it, and people ... BOB BABCOCK Catherine bristled at the amusement in his voice. He could laugh all he wanted when he stood tied to... TAMARA HUGHES Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the powe... C. JOYBELL C. Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall. WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN There were four of us about that bed; / The mass-priest knelt at the side, / I and his mother stood ... WILLIAM MORRIS You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them ... SETH ADAM SMITH Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as ... BROM I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kin... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Thankfully,two old friends stood next to the throne. Horus wore full battle armor and a khopesh swor... RICK RIORDAN If I've learned anything in my life, it's that there is no darkness so absolute that it cannot be di... KERRIGAN BYRNE Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play. BROM And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let dow... BIBLE You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become... JULIE KAGAWA Бог приходят ярким светом В души к людям, тьмой одет�... Уильям Блейк And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his me... BIBLE Just my vengeance complete,
The man sprang to his feet,
Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, a... ROBERT BROWNING She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was bit... MELISSA MARR This morning, the uproar and his explanation. KATIE COURIC The door closed and darkness claimed the room. R.J. LAWRENCE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the li... APOLLONIUS OF RHODES I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome LORD BYRON He stood and held his ground and as one of the officers approached him to arrest him, the officer wa... CAPT. ALLAN ELKINS I stood up in a flash and flushed a light shade of furious. J.L. MCCOY We did everything we had to in order to win the game, but the game came down to one name: Vail. He s... MARK LEE And close at hand, the basket stood
With nuts from brown October's wood. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Just as the morning light sweeps away the night, the darkness within me began to be chased away by a... ANASAZI FOUNDATION I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned d... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn... ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Against the darkness outer
God's light his likeness takes,
And he from the mighty doubter
... RICHARD WATSON GILDER Bill stood his ground, ... and I'd say Tim Salmon turned out to be a pretty good player. MIKE PORT The orb shone bright, but darkness had come to Eden and Carys didn’t know is there was any light t... JOELLE CHARBONNEAU Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither... J.K. ROWLING A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Firm and erect the Caledonian stood;
Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;
"Let him drink... ANONYMOUS Light brings the day and light leaves the night. Use your time wisely. Reach for the light BRENT M. JONES The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored. EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimin... SHELLEY BERKLEY He moved closer to her, his face just inches away from her. They stood motionless. Jason looked deep... MARK A. COOPER Rowan stood with his queen in the rain, breathing in her scent, and let her steal his warmth for as ... SARAH J. MAAS However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. STANLEY KUBRICK Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and... NORA ROBERTS There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness. IDOWU KOYENIKAN His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was go... MARYAM SCHONBECK We had some students who put on Radio 1, but the sheep didn't like the thumping beat at all. They ju... KAREN WRIGHT He's the voice that gets us going, he's well respected, and his experience kind of feeds us. ... His... CARLO COLAIACOVO Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. JOHN MILTON He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood befor... BIBLE Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common ex... DIMITRI A. BOGAZIANOS A round ball of a man with protruding lower lip and seal-colored eyes, [he] spun like a top from con... TED MORGAN That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56) CHIMNESE DAVIDS Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand alo... J.K. ROWLING In Art canvases DRAW answers and withdraw the silence of hidden lamps, illumination. GOITSEMANG SANDRA MVULA You are the light in my darkness, Restful peace for my soul. You are the one who rescues m... LILY G BLUNT We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light. NEAL SHUSTERMAN It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival. MARK W. BOYER Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall,
Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt an... ROBERT BROWNING And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voic... BIBLE But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, rec... URSULA K. LE GUIN Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and p... JOHN MILTON Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspi... BIRCH BAYH When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced JOHN M SHEEHAN Myths are different than fairy tales or legends. Legends are stories based in history and are more o... SETH ADAM SMITH Incens'd with indignation Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the len... JOHN MILTON
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Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
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Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
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To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, a... JOHN MILTON O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! JOHN MILTON If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble. JOHN MILTON Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; ... JOHN MILTON What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe? JOHN MILTON Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. JOHN MILTON Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who
could not hear the music. JOHN MILTON Dancing in the chequer'd shade. JOHN MILTON Come and trip it as ye go,
On the light fantastic toe. JOHN MILTON Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round. JOHN MILTON Solitude sometimes is best society. JOHN MILTON Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. JOHN MILTON And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. JOHN MILTON What hath night to do with sleep? JOHN MILTON Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moment... JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. JOHN MILTON Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. JOHN MILTON Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,... JOHN MILTON How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb JOHN MILTON When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound ... JOHN MILTON Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war. JOHN MILTON License they mean when they cry liberty. JOHN MILTON Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,... JOHN MILTON And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and ... JOHN MILTON Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not pe... JOHN MILTON As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's im... JOHN MILTON Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. JOHN MILTON With thee conversing I forget all time. JOHN MILTON He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king JOHN MILTON Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine, and be not diffident Of wisdom, ... JOHN MILTON But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them L... JOHN MILTON Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. JOHN MILTON Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. JOHN MILTON Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, blo... JOHN MILTON Where no hope is left, is left no fear. JOHN MILTON Our country is where ever we are well off. JOHN MILTON What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He tha... JOHN MILTON To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or begga... JOHN MILTON When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seeking<... JOHN MILTON Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. JOHN MILTON Reason also is choice. JOHN MILTON For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God a... JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid... JOHN MILTON A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th... JOHN MILTON It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. JOHN MILTON Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time ... JOHN MILTON Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate. JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere... JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liv... JOHN MILTON Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather th... JOHN MILTON Lords are lordliest in their wine. JOHN MILTON Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake. JOHN MILTON From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scann... JOHN MILTON Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! JOHN MILTON Few sometimes may know, when thousands err. JOHN MILTON And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. JOHN MILTON Tears such as angels weep. JOHN MILTON Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n. JOHN MILTON What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, O... JOHN MILTON But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi... JOHN MILTON Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. JOHN MILTON In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora. JOHN MILTON Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot... JOHN MILTON If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
M... JOHN MILTON . . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words. JOHN MILTON He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow. JOHN MILTON Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth! JOHN MILTON Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread. JOHN MILTON Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. JOHN MILTON In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o... JOHN MILTON But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-w... JOHN MILTON While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the bar... JOHN MILTON So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. JOHN MILTON There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over thi... JOHN MILTON Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night? JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn,
Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,
Of wedde... JOHN MILTON The Pilot of the Galilean Lake. JOHN MILTON A short retirement urges a sweet return. JOHN MILTON What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. JOHN MILTON When I consider how my light is spent E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that... JOHN MILTON Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. JOHN MILTON Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower. JOHN MILTON From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
... JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv... JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ... JOHN MILTON 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills... JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of ... JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, o... JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence. JOHN MILTON And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,
Th... JOHN MILTON To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge... JOHN MILTON So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he. JOHN MILTON (Eternity) a moment standing still for ever. JOHN MILTON That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity. JOHN MILTON All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense, and as they please
... JOHN MILTON Whence and what are thou, execrable shape? JOHN MILTON Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names. JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it! JOHN MILTON But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash. JOHN MILTON A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's ... JOHN MILTON Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. JOHN MILTON Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. JOHN MILTON Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a... JOHN MILTON Let his tormentor conscience find him out. JOHN MILTON Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. JOHN MILTON O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;
Thou wi... JOHN MILTON Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o... JOHN MILTON The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. JOHN MILTON Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery? JOHN MILTON For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is ac... JOHN MILTON And filled the air with barbarous dissonance. JOHN MILTON Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
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Is flat despair. JOHN MILTON So on he fares, and to the border comes,
Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, crowns... JOHN MILTON From that high mount of God whence light and shade
Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c... JOHN MILTON For such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, ro... JOHN MILTON The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. JOHN MILTON These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing ha... JOHN MILTON Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. JOHN MILTON With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. JOHN MILTON So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o... JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure. JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasures. JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meander's mar... JOHN MILTON Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. JOHN MILTON Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras. JOHN MILTON For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both. JOHN MILTON Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies. JOHN MILTON Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. JOHN MILTON Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever plac... JOHN MILTON Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all. JOHN MILTON For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
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And backward mutters of dissevering power. JOHN MILTON He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? JOHN MILTON So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed. JOHN MILTON If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ... JOHN MILTON Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures ... JOHN MILTON For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher ... JOHN MILTON Who can enjoy alone?
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Equal to God, and equally enjoying
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Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum... JOHN MILTON Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. JOHN MILTON What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an... JOHN MILTON For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. JOHN MILTON Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible. JOHN MILTON Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers. JOHN MILTON Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ... JOHN MILTON The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t... JOHN MILTON Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos... JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. JOHN MILTON