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Light Quotes by John Milton
- Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their…
- Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime…
- Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round
- 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…
- Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
- Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!
- 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…
- His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
- And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
- There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
- These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth…
- But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And…
- Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
- Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but…
- From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.
- 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…
- He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul…
- The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
- Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
- Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
- This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
- When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which…
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