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John Milton Quotes about Soul

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Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

Soul, Half, Claims

John Milton, “Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument]”

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Life, Book, Soul

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.

Ties, Soul, Harmony

John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.413

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

Soul, Singing, Elysium

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.146

Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

War, Soul, Victory

1652 'To the Lord General Cromwell'.

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

Angel, Heaven, Soul

John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.27

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

Long, Soul, Pageantry

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

Art, Soul, Lust

John Milton, “Comus”

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

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”

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

Eye, Sky, Soul

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.114

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

Iron, Soul, Tears

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

Love, Sweet, Soul

John Milton, Thomas Keightley (1859). “Poems”, p.55

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

Names, Soul, Add

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

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 and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

Dark, Light, Soul

'Comus' (1637) l. 373

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

Song, Soul, Mazes

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 555

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