Best John Milton Lines
- With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. Celestial
- Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. Beauty
- See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing. Days
- 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… Cheeks
- License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. Cry
- In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora. Beauty
- Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. Asleep
- Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Admiration
- In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God. Ascend
- You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind. All
- 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… Blue
- 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… All
- Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. Elysium
- Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. All
- Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Bout
- Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. Bid
- 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… Absolute
- I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. All
- 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. All
- Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. All
- Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. Both
- 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.… Admire
- Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. Kept
- Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. Assume
- Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. Dance
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