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John Milton
442 quotes
“Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For evil news rides post, while good news baits.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That golden key That opes the palace of eternity.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern bard, in hall or bower.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“These my sky-robes spun out of Iris' woof.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The star that bids the shepherd fold.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 smil'd!”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Such sober certainty of waking bliss.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasure.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is chastity, my brother, chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And sweeten'd every musk-rose of the dale.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That power Which erring men call Chance.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Enter'd the very lime-twigs of his spells, And yet came off.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This cordial julep here, That flames and dances in his crystal bounds.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Budge doctors of the Stoic fur.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Under the opening eyelids of the morn.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source