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John Milton Quotes - Page 14

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

Sheep, Doors, Wind

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

Time, Fire, Elements

1665 Mammon. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.274-7.

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

Flower, Embroidery, Pansies

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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.

Time, Power, Night

John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

Summer, Dream, Sight

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

Mean, Law, Bars

John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.345, Pearson Education

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

Death, Names, Caves

John Milton (1754). “Paradise Lost”, p.148

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

Philosophy, Charming, Divine

'Comus' (1637) l. 475

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

Slave, Mills, Gaza

Samson Agonistes l. 40 (1671)

Death from sin no power can separate.

Sin, Immortality

John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.217

The rising world of waters dark and deep.

Dark, Water, Rising

John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.70

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

Cures

John Milton (1832). “Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]”, p.28

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

Morning, Stars, Dancing

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.66

Where all life dies death lives.

Death, Life Death, Dies

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 620

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

Money, Honor, Realms

John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.91

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

Sheep, Looks, Hungry

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

Eye, Eternity, Ends

John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

Running, Grief, Men

John Milton (1752). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.425

At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

Stars, Heaven, Unseen

John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.471, Mercer University Press

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

Crow, Devil, Awful

John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.348

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

Hurtful, Principles, May

John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.379

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

Gratitude, Men, Race

Death to life is crown or shame.

Crowns, Life Is, Shame

1671 Samson Agonistes, l.1579.

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

Song, Thee, Wells

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

Long, Late, Paradise Lost Book 9

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 21

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