John Milton Quotes, Sex Quotes, Essence Quotes

For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

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Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

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O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

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

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For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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

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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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Such joy ambition finds.

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