John Milton Quotes, Years Quotes, Ivy Quotes

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

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The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

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Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

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