John MiltonAnd storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. ✨ 'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 157371Life
John MiltonSo dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life. ✨ Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, … ▶371DeathLifeLove
John MiltonWith eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.371Time
John MiltonAbash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. ✨ John Milton (1826). The Poetical Works of John Milton, p.348372Life
John MiltonIt were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them. ✨ John Milton, John Hunter (1864). Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative … ▶372Life
John MiltonWho kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. ✨ Complete Po… ▶372Reading
John MiltonTo adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood. ✨ John Milton (1758). Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained..., p.14372Humor
John MiltonHow oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.351Reading
John MiltonThe starry cope Of heaven. ✨ John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). Paradise Lost, p.278, Pearson Education351Politics
John MiltonEnflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. 362HopeLifeThought
John MiltonAnd fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. ✨ John Milton (1824). The Poetical Works of John M… ▶362Life
John MiltonSo hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve. 373LoveReading
John MiltonFor what can war, but endless war, still breed? ✨ 'On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester' (written 1648, published 1694)373Love
John MiltonHail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 750373HumanityLovePolitics
John MiltonThe never-ending flight Of future days. ✨ John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, p.47352HopeReadingTime
John MiltonIt was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. ✨ 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1363Time
John MiltonBiochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.374Love
John MiltonFame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ✨ Lycidas l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refe… ▶363Thought
John MiltonHis words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. ✨ 'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) sect. 12, p. 55341Death
John MiltonFor so I created them free and free they must remain. ✨ John Milton, Paradise Lost: Book 03374Reading
John MiltonTo be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering. ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 157352Death
John MiltonO shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in ha… ▶352Hope
John MiltonBut see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending. ✨ 1629 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 27.<… ▶374Time
John MiltonInnumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. ✨ John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). The Poetical W… ▶364LifePolitics
John MiltonThough all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her … ▶364Truth
John MiltonIncens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence an… ▶375Reading
John MiltonLuck is the residue of design.353Sadness
John MiltonWhat hath night to do with sleep? ✨ 'Comus' (1637) l. 122375Hope
John MiltonIn dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 594375Hope
John MiltonThe pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). ✨ 'Lycidas' (1638) l. 108375Hope
