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John Milton Quotes - Page 18

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

And out of good still to find means of evil.

Mean, Evil, Find Me

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 165

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

Morning, Ambition, Men

'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 4, l. 220

And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

Book, Eye, Men

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

Jewelry, Train, Gems

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

Cooking, Flow, Reason

John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.277

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

Sleep, Light, Digestion

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

Temper justice with mercy.

Forgiveness, Justice, Mercy

John Milton (1754). “Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes”, p.317

The timely dew of sleep.

Sleep, Dew, Timely

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

Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

Heart, Winning, Firsts

John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'D. A Poem, In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes, And Poems upon Several Occasions: 3”, p.154

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

Truth, Father, Stones

John Milton (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Milton. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.]”, p.574

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

Wise, Thinking, Thee

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 172

O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

Strong, Fall, Mind

1671 Samson Agonistes, l.52-7.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

Rags, Arms, Noise

John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.439

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

Life, Tree, Middle

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 192

Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

Heaven, Vision, Gold

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 678

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.

Excess, Brightness, Ruins

John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.42

(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

Life, Thinking, Mind

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

Dance, Light, Ballet

"L'Allegro" l. 33 (1645)

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

Soul, Ribs, Ears

'Comus' (1637) l. 560

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

War, Heaven, Violence

John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.399

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

Thinking, Wind, Deeds

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.154

O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

Wise, Angel, Men

1665 Adam speaking of Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.888-95.

Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

Summer, Dream, Children

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

The starry cope Of heaven.

Heaven

John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.278, Pearson Education

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.

Dream, Angel, Soul

John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (1962). “Milton: Poetry & Prose”

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