John Milton Quotes, People Quotes, Tongue Quotes

And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

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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, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

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Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

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The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

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So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

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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.

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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

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