John Milton Quotes, Life Quotes, Daughter Quotes

Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

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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.

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

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Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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Solitude is sometimes the best society.

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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

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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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Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

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

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Antichrist is Mammon's son.

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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

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