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?
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, whi... BIBLE Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dis... BIBLE The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine... BIBLE And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou ... BIBLE And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteou... BIBLE See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; / In that I command thee thi... BIBLE Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be wit... BIBLE When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what
is before thee:
And put a knife t... BIBLE When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: / And put a knife to... BIBLE And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the wo... VENERABLE BEDE Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ... BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought aga... BIBLE Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not n... JOHN KEBLE Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall... BIBLE Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T... CHARLES WESLEY Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he se... BIBLE Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast w... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ... CHRISTOPHER LOVE Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind it To thy breast, and make thee dead To thy children, t... EURIPIDES Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine... MATTHEW ARNOLD Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not ... BIBLE Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like... BIBLE Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant... BIBLE Do not swear at all;
Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idola... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Grace thou thy House, and let not that grace thee. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with... BIBLE And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fie... BIBLE When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when the... BIBLE And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all th... BIBLE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Great art Thou, O Lord, and highly to be praise... C. I. SCOFIELD Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God; for God... BIBLE Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) They call thee rich; I deem thee poor; since, if thou darest not use thy store, but savest only for ... LUCILLIUS In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not ... BIBLE Creator Venus, genial power of love,
The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the slidi... JOHN DRYDEN I sleep with thee, and wake with thee, And yet thou are not there; I fill my arms with tho... JOHN CLARE And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, Wh... BIBLE Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee Save Me, save only Me? All which I took from the... FRANCIS G. THOMPSON Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell—even then thou callest to me across the unb... KAHLIL GIBRAN Concluding a short series on authenticity: Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: W... JOHN DONNE The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither ... BIBLE Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what ai... RICHARD BAXTER In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell an... JAKOB BOHME And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: / And the river ... BIBLE Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall... PSALM 91:9-11 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa... BIBLE Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi... BIBLE Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if ... BIBLE Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk ... BIBLE And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love the... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: / But if I tarry long, that thou m... BIBLE Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou sh... BIBLE Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou li... AESCHYLUS And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command th... BIBLE And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast... BIBLE Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abid... BIBLE My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects ... KAHLIL GIBRAN Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance ... SIR WALTER RALEIGH Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. BIBLE I know, 0 Caesar, that thou art awaiting my arrival with impatience, that thy true heart of a friend... HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou... JOSEPH SMITH If thou art called to pass through tribulation; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou ... JOSEPH SMITH JR. Bleed, bleed, poor Country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not chec... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n... SIR WALTER RALEIGH Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n... EMILY DICKINSON These creatures all together shall yield milk for us; do thou, O earth, give us the honey of speech! ATHARVA VEDA We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th... BIBLE But, O thou tyrant,
Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
Than all thy woes can sti... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I wil... CASSANDRA CLARE Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy bl... BIBLE Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ... TACITUS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ... PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I wil... BIBLE In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I wil... BIBLE I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. BIBLE Happy insect! what can be
In happiness compared to thee?
Fed with nourishment divine,
T... ABRAHAM COWLEY And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor la... BIBLE The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy re... PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee ... JOHN DONNE Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him ... BIBLE Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; JOSEPH SMITH JR. O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in ... RICHARD CRASHAW And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou n... BIBLE If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And tho... KHALED HOSSEINI When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w... JACOB BOEHME Remember thee! remember thee! Till Lethe quench life's burning stream Remorse and sham... GEORGE GORDON BYRON Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt... BIBLE Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even... BIBLE Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not... BIBLE [A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first t... HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, hast so m... JOSEPH ADDISON Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. WILLIAM COWPER
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. JOHN MILTON Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. JOHN MILTON Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the ... JOHN MILTON No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. JOHN MILTON Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. JOHN MILTON True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. JOHN MILTON Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th... JOHN MILTON Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kil... JOHN MILTON Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. JOHN MILTON A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. JOHN MILTON He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid... JOHN MILTON The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and comm... JOHN MILTON For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine. JOHN MILTON How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down... JOHN MILTON Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not driv... JOHN MILTON Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libe... JOHN MILTON A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. JOHN MILTON Indu'd
With sanctity of reason. JOHN MILTON Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law. JOHN MILTON But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
T... JOHN MILTON The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him. JOHN MILTON Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe. JOHN MILTON Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane. JOHN MILTON The rising world of waters dark and deep. JOHN MILTON Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flo... JOHN MILTON Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. JOHN MILTON For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a... JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills r... JOHN MILTON Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as act... JOHN MILTON Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. JOHN MILTON How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! JOHN MILTON These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bl... JOHN MILTON Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem. JOHN MILTON Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed... JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license. JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th... JOHN MILTON Fear of change perplexes monarchs. JOHN MILTON Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear u... JOHN MILTON That in such righteousness
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
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. JOHN MILTON Thus repuls'd, our final hope
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
Still moves with thine... JOHN MILTON Power ought to serve as a check to power. JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd,
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?
Or all enjoying what contentment find? JOHN MILTON Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition. JOHN MILTON I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone... JOHN MILTON In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt. JOHN MILTON Human face divine. JOHN MILTON If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and... JOHN MILTON When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
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 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 How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! JOHN MILTON