John Milton Quotes, Eye Quotes, Rivers Quotes

Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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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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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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Danger will wink on opportunity.

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Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

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And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

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What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

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Ride the air In whirlwind.

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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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