Best John Milton Thoughts
- 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… Airy
- 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… Apollo
- Laws can discover sin, but not remove it Discover
- The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). Amain
- 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… Another Country
- That power Which erring men call Chance. Call
- Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. All
- 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. All
- Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore. Damsels
- 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… Body
- Reason also is choice. Choice
- 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… Air
- Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? Happiness
- Live while ye may, Yet happy pair. Happiness
- 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;… Art
- Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind. Fame
- And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train. Gems
- 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… Abstain
- Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn! Firstborn
- The timely dew of sleep. Dew
- 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… Adam
- 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… Beam
- His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. Aery
- 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
- Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. All
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