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Holy and Profane State. Of Tombs.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Holy and Profane State. Of Books.
They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.
Holy and Profane State. Of Marriage.
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
Holy and Profane State. Fame.
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.[222:3]
Andronicus. Sect. vi. Par. 18, 1.
[221:3]
A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,
And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, part i. line 156.
[222:1] See Bacon, p. 166.
[222:2] See Herbert, p. 205.
[222:3] See Bacon, p. 170.
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JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674.Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 1.
Or if Sion hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd
Fast by the oracle of God.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 10.
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 16.
What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.[223:1]
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.
As far as angels' ken.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 59.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 62.
Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 65.
What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th' unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 105.
To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 157.
And out of good still to find means of evil.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 165.
Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors!
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 249.
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A mind not to be chang'd by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.[224:1]
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 253.
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 261.
Heard so oft
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
Of battle.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 275.
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast
Of some great ammiral were but a wand,
He walk'd with to support uneasy steps
Over the burning marle.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 292.
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades
High over-arch'd imbower.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 302.
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 330.
Spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 423.
Execute their airy purposes.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 430.
When night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 500.
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.[224:2]
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 536.
Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds:
At which the universal host up sent
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 540.
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Anon they move
In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood
Of flutes and soft recorders.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 549.
His form had yet not lost
All her original brightness, nor appear'd
Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess
Of glory obscur'd.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 591.
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 597.
Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 619.
Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 648.
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell
From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts
Were always downward bent, admiring more
The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold,
Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd
In vision beatific.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 679.
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell: that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 690.
Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose, like an exhalation.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 710.
From morn
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,—
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 742.
Fairy elves,
Whose midnight revels by a forest side
Or fountain some belated peasant sees,
Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon
Sits arbitress.
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 781.
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High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,
Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd
To that bad eminence.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1.
Surer to prosper than prosperity
Could have assur'd us.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 39.
The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 44.
Rather than be less,
Car'd not to be at all.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 47.
My sentence is for open war.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 51.
That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat: descent and fall
To us is adverse.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 75.
When the scourge
Inexorable and the torturing hour
Call us to penance.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 90.
Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 105.
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason,[226:1] to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 112.
Th' ethereal mould
Incapable of stain would soon expel
Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire,
Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.[226:2]
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 139.
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For who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night?
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 146.
His red right hand.[227:1]
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 174.
Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 185.
The never-ending flight
Of future days.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 221.
Our torments also may in length of time
Become our elements.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 274.
With grave
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd
A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven
Deliberation sat, and public care;
And princely counsel in his face yet shone,
Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood,
With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear
The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look
Drew audience and attention still as night
Or summer's noontide air.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 300.
The palpable obscure.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 406.
Long is the way
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 432.
Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 476.
The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 490.
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures rational.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 496.
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In discourse more sweet;
For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.
Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,
In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high
Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,
Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute;
And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555.
Vain wisdom all and false philosophy.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 565.
Arm th' obdur'd breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 568.
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire.
Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd,
At certain revolutions all the damn'd
Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes,—extremes by change more fierce;
From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round,
Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 592.
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp,
Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 620.
Gorgons and Hydras and Chimæras dire.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 628.
The other shape,
If shape it might be call'd that shape had none
Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd,
For each seem'd either,—black it stood as night,
Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,
And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head
The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Satan was now at hand.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 666.
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Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 681.
Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 699.
So spake the grisly Terror.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 704.
Incens'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 and war.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 707.
Their fatal hands
No second stroke intend.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 712.
Hell
Grew darker at their frown.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 719.
I fled, and cry'd out, Death!
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd
From all her caves, and back resounded, Death!
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 787.
Before mine eyes in opposition sits
Grim Death, my son and foe.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 803.
Death
Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
His famine should be fill'd.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 845.
On a sudden open fly,
With impetuous recoil and jarring sound,
Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate
Harsh thunder.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 879.
Where eldest Night
And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold
Eternal anarchy amidst the noise
Of endless wars, and by confusion stand;
For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,
Strive here for mast'ry.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 894.
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