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Paradise Lost. Book I. Line 1. 2 or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God. 3 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 4 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.
Paradise Lost. Book I. Line 1. 2 or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God. 3 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 4 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.
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Paradise Lost. Book I. Line 1. 2 or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God. 3 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 4 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.
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John Milton Quotes And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
Source: Bartlett, John. Familiar Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 105. Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. 9 To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 157. Of Man’s first disobedience, and the 10 fruit And out of good still to find means of Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste evil. Brought death into the world, and all our Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 165. woe. 11 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 1. Farewell happy fields, 2 Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors! Or if Sion hill Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 249. Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook, 12 that flow’d A mind not to be chang’d by place or Fast by the oracle of God. time. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 10. The mind is its own place, and in itself 3 Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of Things unattempted yet in prose or heaven. 2 rhyme. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 253. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 16. 13 4 Here we may reign secure; and in my What in me is dark choice Illumine, what is low raise and support, To reign is worth ambition, though in That to the height of this great argument hell: I may assert eternal Providence, Better to reign in hell than serve in And justify the ways of God to men. 1 heaven. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 261. 5 14 As far as angels’ ken. Heard so oft Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 59. In worst extremes, and on the perilous 6 edge Yet from those flames Of battle. No light, but rather darkness visible. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 275. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 62. 15 7 His spear, to equal which the tallest Where peace pine And rest can never dwell, hope never Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast comes Of some great ammiral were but a wand, That comes to all. He walk’d with to support uneasy steps Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 65. Over the burning marle. 8 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 292. What though the field be lost? 16 All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will, Thick as autumnal leaves that strow Less than archangel ruin’d, and th’ the brooks excess In Vallombrosa, where th’ Etrurian Of glory obscur’d. shades Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 591. High over-arch’d imbower. 25 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 302. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight 17 sheds Awake, arise, or be forever fallen! On half the nations, and with fear of Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 330. change 18 Perplexes monarchs. Spirits when they please Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 597. Can either sex assume, or both. 26 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 423. Thrice he assay’d, and thrice in spite 19 of scorn Execute their airy purposes. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 430. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 619. 20 27 When night Who overcomes Darkens the streets, then wander forth By force, hath overcome but half his foe. the sons Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 648. Of Belial, flown with insolence and 28 wine. Mammon, the least erected spirit that Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 500. fell 21 From heaven; for ev’n in heaven his Th’ imperial ensign, which full high looks and thoughts advanc’d Were always downward bent, admiring Shone like a meteor, streaming to the more wind. 3 The riches of heaven’s pavement, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 536. trodden gold, 22 Than aught divine or holy else enjoy’d Sonorous metal blowing martial In vision beatific. sounds: Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 679. At which the universal host up sent 29 A shout that tore hell’s concave, and Let none admire beyond That riches grow in hell: that soil may Frighted the reign of Chaos and old best Night. Deserve the precious bane. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 540. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 690. 23 30 Anon they move Anon out of the earth a fabric huge In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Rose, like an exhalation. Of flutes and soft recorders. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 710. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 549. 31 24 From morn His form had yet not lost To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, All her original brightness, nor appear’d — A summer’s day; and with the setting 39 sun When the scourge Dropp’d from the Zenith like a falling Inexorable and the torturing hour star. Call us to penance. Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 742. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 90. 32 40 Fairy elves, Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. Whose midnight revels by a forest side Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 105. Or fountain some belated peasant sees, 41 Or dreams he sees, while overhead the But all was false and hollow; though moon his tongue Sits arbitress. Dropp’d manna, and could make the Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 781. worse appear 33 The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash High on a throne of royal state, which Maturest counsels. far Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 112. Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of 42 Ind, Th’ ethereal mould Or where the gorgeous East with richest Incapable of stain would soon expel hand Her mischief, and purge off the baser Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and fire, gold, Victorious. Thus repuls’d, our final hope Satan exalted sat, by merit rais’d Is flat despair. 5 To that bad eminence. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 139. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1. 43 34 For who would lose, Surer to prosper than prosperity Though full of pain this intellectual Could have assur’d us. being, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 39. Those thoughts that wander through 35 eternity, The strongest and the fiercest spirit To perish rather, swallow’d up and lost That fought in heaven, now fiercer by In the wide womb of uncreated night? despair. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 146. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 44. 44 36 His red right hand. 6 Rather than be less, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 174. Car’d not to be at all. 45 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 47. Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev’d. 37 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 185. My sentence is for open war. 46 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 51. The never-ending flight 38 Of future days. That in our proper motion we ascend Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 221. Up to our native seat: descent and fall 47 To us is adverse. Our torments also may in length of Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 75. time Become our elements. In thoughts more elevate, and reason’d Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 274. high 48 Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and With grave fate, Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem’d Fix’d fate, free-will, foreknowledge A pillar of state; deep on his front absolute; engraven And found no end, in wand’ring mazes Deliberation sat, and public care; lost. And princely counsel in his face yet Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555. shone, 55 Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, Vain wisdom all and false philosophy. With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 565. The weight of mightiest monarchies; his 56 look Arm th’ obdur’d breast Drew audience and attention still as With stubborn patience as with triple night steel. Or summer’s noontide air. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 568. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 300. 57 49 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog The palpable obscure. Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 406. Where armies whole have sunk: the 50 parching air Long is the way Burns frore, and cold performs th’ effect And hard, that out of hell leads up to of fire. light. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal’d, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 432. At certain revolutions all the damn’d 51 Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter Their rising all at once was as the change sound Of fierce extremes,—extremes by Of thunder heard remote. change more fierce; Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 476. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice 52 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to The low’ring element pine Scowls o’er the darken’d landscape. Immovable, infix’d, and frozen round, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 490. Periods of time; thence hurried back to 53 fire. Oh, shame to men! devil with devil Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 592. damn’d 58 Firm concord holds, men only disagree O’er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Of creatures rational. Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 496. and shades of death. 54 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 620. In discourse more sweet; 59 For eloquence the soul, song charms the Gorgons and Hydras and Chimæras sense. dire. Others apart sat on a hill retir’d, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 628. 60 Hell trembled at the hideous name, and The other shape, sigh’d If shape it might be call’d that shape had From all her caves, and back resounded, none DEATH! Distinguishable in member, joint, or Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 787. limb; 68 Or substance might be call’d that Before mine eyes in opposition sits shadow seem’d, Grim Death, my son and foe. For each seem’d either,—black it stood Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 803. as night, 69 Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, Death And shook a dreadful dart; what seem’d Grinn’d horrible a ghastly smile, to hear his head His famine should be fill’d. The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 845. Satan was now at hand. 70 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 666. On a sudden open fly, 61 With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Whence and what art thou, execrable Th’ infernal doors, and on their hinges shape? grate Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 681. Harsh thunder. 62 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 879. Back to thy punishment, 71 False fugitive, and to thy speed add Where eldest Night wings. And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 699. Eternal anarchy amidst the noise 63 Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; So spake the grisly Terror. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 704. champions fierce, 64 Strive here for mast’ry. Incens’d with indignation Satan stood Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 894. Unterrify’d, and like a comet burn’d 72 That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge Into this wild abyss, In th’ arctic sky, and from his horrid hair The womb of Nature and perhaps her Shakes pestilence and war. grave. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 707. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 910. 65 73 Their fatal hands To compare No second stroke intend. Great things with small. 7 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 712. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 921. 66 74 Hell O’er bog or steep, through strait, Grew darker at their frown. rough, dense, or rare, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 719. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues 67 his way, I fled, and cry’d out, DEATH! And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 948. And wisdom at one entrance quite shut 75 out. With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 40. Confusion worse confounded. 82 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 995. Sufficient to have stood, though free 76 to fall. So he with difficulty and labour hard Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 99. Mov’d on, with difficulty and labour he. 83 Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1021. See golden days, fruitful of golden 77 deeds, And fast by, hanging in a golden With joy and love triumphing. chain, Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 337. This pendent world, in bigness as a star 84 Of smallest magnitude, close by the Dark with excessive bright. moon. Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 380. Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1051. 85 78 Embryos and idiots, eremites and Hail holy light! offspring of heav’n friars, first-born. White, black, and gray, with all their Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 1. trumpery. 79 Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 474. The rising world of waters dark and 86 deep. Since call’d Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 11. The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. 80 Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 495. Thoughts that voluntary move 87 Harmonious numbers. And oft, though wisdom wake, Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 37. suspicion sleeps 81 At wisdom’s gate, and to simplicity Thus with the year Resigns her charge, while goodness Seasons return; but not to me returns thinks no ill Day, or the sweet approach of even or Where no ill seems. morn, Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 686. Or sight of vernal bloom or summer’s 88 rose, The hell within him. Or flocks, or herds, or human face Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 20. divine; 89 But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Now conscience wakes despair Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of That slumber’d,—wakes the bitter men memory Cut off, and for the book of knowledge Of what he was, what is, and what must fair be Presented with a universal blank Worse. Of Nature’s works, to me expung’d and Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23. raz’d, 90 At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish’d heads. 8 Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 194. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 34. 99 91 A heaven on earth. A grateful mind Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 208. By owing owes not, but still pays, at 100 once Flowers worthy of paradise. Indebted and discharg’d. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 241. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 55. 101 92 Flowers of all hue, and without thorn Which way shall I fly the rose. 9 Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 256. Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; 102 And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Proserpine gathering flowers, Still threat’ning to devour me, opens Herself a fairer flower. wide, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 269. To which the hell I suffer seems a 103 heaven. For contemplation he and valour Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 73. form’d, 93 For softness she and sweet attractive Such joy ambition finds. grace; Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 92. He for God only, she for God in him. 94 His fair large front and eye sublime Ease would recant declar’d Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 96. Round from his parted forelock manly 95 hung So farewell hope, and with hope Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders farewell fear, broad. Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 297. Evil, be thou my good. 104 Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 108. Implied 96 Subjection, but requir’d with gentle That practis’d falsehood under saintly sway, shew, And by her yielded, by him best Deep malice to conceal, couch’d with receiv’d,— revenge. Yielded with coy submission, modest Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 122. pride, 97 And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. Sabean odours from the spicy shore Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 307. Of Araby the Blest. 105 Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 162. Adam the goodliest man of men since 98 born And on the Tree of Life, His sons, the fairest of her daughters The middle tree and highest there that Eve. grew, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 323. Sat like a cormorant. 106 And with necessity, Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising The tyrant’s plea, 10 excus’d his devilish sweet, deeds. With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 393. sun 107 When first on this delightful land he As Jupiter spreads On Juno smiles, when he impregns the His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and clouds flower, That shed May flowers. Glist’ring with dew; fragrant the fertile Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 499. earth 108 After soft showers; and sweet the Imparadis’d in one another’s arms. coming on Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 506. Of grateful ev’ning mild; then silent 109 night Live while ye may, With this her solemn bird and this fair Yet happy pair. moon, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 533. And these the gems of heaven, her starry 110 train: Now came still evening on, and But neither breath of morn when she twilight gray ascends Had in her sober livery all things clad; With charm of earliest birds, nor rising Silence accompany’d; for beast and bird, sun They to their grassy couch, these to their On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, nests, flower, Were slunk, all but the wakeful Glist’ring with dew, nor fragrance after nightingale; showers, She all night long her amorous descant Nor grateful ev’ning mild, nor silent sung; night Silence was pleas’d. Now glow’d the With this her solemn bird, nor walk by firmament moon With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led Or glittering starlight, without thee is The starry host, rode brightest, till the sweet. moon, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 639. Rising in clouded majesty, at length 113 Apparent queen unveil’d her peerless Millions of spiritual creatures walk light, the earth And o’er the dark her silver mantle Unseen, both when we wake and when threw. we sleep. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 598. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 677. 111 114 The timely dew of sleep. In naked beauty more adorn’d, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 614. More lovely than Pandora. 11 112 Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 713. With thee conversing I forget all time, 115 All seasons, and their change,—all Eas’d the putting off please alike. These troublesome disguises which we Advancing, sow’d the earth with orient wear. pearl, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 739. When Adam wak’d, so custom’d; for his 116 sleep Hail wedded love, mysterious law, Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. true source Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 1. Of human offspring. 126 Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 750. Hung over her enamour’d, and beheld 117 Beauty, which, whether waking or Squat like a toad, close at the ear of asleep, Eve. Shot forth peculiar graces. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 800. Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 13. 118 127 Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear My latest found, Touch’d lightly; for no falsehood can Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new endure delight! Touch of celestial temper. Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 18. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 810. 128 119 Good, the more Not to know me argues yourselves Communicated, more abundant grows. unknown, Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 71. The lowest of your throng. 129 Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 830. These are thy glorious works, Parent 120 of good! Abash’d the devil stood, Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 153. And felt how awful goodness is, and saw 130 Virtue in her shape how lovely. Fairest of stars, last in the train of Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 846. night, 121 If better thou belong not to the dawn. All hell broke loose. Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 166. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 918. 131 122 A wilderness of sweets. Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved. Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 294. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 987. 132 123 Another morn The starry cope Ris’n on mid-noon. Of heaven. Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 310. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 992. 133 124 So saying, with despatchful looks in Fled haste Murmuring, and with him fled the She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. shades of night. Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 331. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 1014. 134 125 Nor jealousy Now morn, her rosy steps in th’ Was understood, the injur’d lover’s hell. eastern clime Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 449. 135 Horrible discord, and the madding The bright consummate flower. wheels Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 481. Of brazen chariots rag’d: dire was the 136 noise Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Of conflict. Virtues, Powers. Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 209. Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 601. 145 137 Spirits that live throughout, They eat, they drink, and in Vital in every part, not as frail man, communion sweet In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Quaff immortality and joy. Cannot but by annihilating die. Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 637. Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 345. 138 146 Satan; so call him now, his former Far off his coming shone. name Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 768. Is heard no more in heaven. 147 Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 658. More safe I sing with mortal voice, 139 unchang’d Midnight brought on the dusky hour To hoarse or mute, though fall’n on evil Friendliest to sleep and silence. days, Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 667. On evil days though fall’n, and evil 140 tongues. Innumerable as the stars of night, Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 24. Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the 148 sun Still govern thou my song, Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Urania, and fit audience find, though Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 745. few. 141 Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 30. So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful 149 found; Heaven open’d wide Among the faithless, faithful only he. Her ever during gates, harmonious Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 896. sound, 142 On golden hinges moving. Morn, Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 205. Wak’d by the circling hours, with rosy 150 hand Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Unbarr’d the gates of light. Repairing, in their golden urns draw Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 2. light. 143 Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 364. Servant of God, well done; well hast 151 thou fought Now half appear’d The better fight. The tawny lion, pawing to get free Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 29. His hinder parts. 144 Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 463. Arms on armour clashing bray’d 152 Indu’d With sanctity of reason. Think only what concerns thee and thy Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 507. being. 153 Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line A broad and ample road, whose dust 161 is gold, To know And pavement stars,—as stars to thee That which before us lies in daily life appear Is the prime wisdom. Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 192. Which nightly as a circling zone thou 162 seest Liquid lapse of murmuring streams. Powder’d with stars. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 263. Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 577. 163 154 And feel that I am happier than I The Angel ended, and in Adam’s ear know. So charming left his voice, that he Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 282. awhile 164 Thought him still speaking, still stood Among unequals what society fix’d to hear. Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 1. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 383. 155 165 There swift return Grace was in all her steps, heaven in Diurnal, merely to officiate light her eye, Round this opacous earth, this punctual In every gesture dignity and love. spot. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 488. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 21. 166 156 Her virtue and the conscience of her And grace that won who saw to wish worth, her stay. That would be woo’d, and not unsought Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 43. be won. 157 Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 502. And touch’d by her fair tendance, 167 gladlier grew. She what was honour knew, Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 47. And with obsequious majesty approv’d 158 My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower With centric and eccentric scribbled I led her blushing like the morn; all o’er, heaven Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. And happy constellations on that hour Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 83. Shed their selectest influence; the earth 159 Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Her silent course advance Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle With inoffensive pace, that spinning airs sleeps Whisper’d it to the woods, and from On her soft axle. their wings Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 163. Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy 160 shrub. Be lowly wise: Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 508. 168 178 The sum of earthly bliss. The work under our labour grows, Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 522. Luxurious by restraint. 169 Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 208. So well to know 179 Her own, that what she wills to do or say Smiles from reason flow, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, To brute deny’d, and are of love the best. food. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 548. Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 239. 170 180 Accuse not Nature: she hath done her For solitude sometimes is best society, part; And short retirement urges sweet return. Do thou but thine. Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 249. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 561. 181 171 At shut of evening flowers. Oft times nothing profits more Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 278. Than self-esteem, grounded on just and 182 right As one who long in populous city Well manag’d. 12 pent, Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 571. Where houses thick and sewers annoy 172 the air. Those graceful acts, Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 445. Those thousand decencies that daily 183 flow So gloz’d the tempter. From all her words and actions. Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 549. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 610. 184 173 Hope elevates, and joy With a smile that glow’d Brightens his crest. Celestial rosy red, love’s proper hue. Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 633. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 618. 185 174 Left that command My unpremeditated verse. Sole daughter of his voice. 13 Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 24. Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 652. 175 186 Pleas’d me, long choosing and Earth felt the wound; and Nature from beginning late. her seat, Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 26. Sighing through all her works, gave 176 signs of woe Unless an age too late, or cold That all was lost. Climate, or years, damp my intended Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 782. wing. 187 Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 44. In her face excuse 177 Came prologue, and apology too prompt. Revenge, at first though sweet, Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 853. Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. 188 Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 171. A pillar’d shade High overarch’d, and echoing walks 197 between. Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 1106. thou liv’st 189 Live well: how long or short permit to Yet I shall temper so heaven. 14 Justice with mercy, as may illustrate Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 553. most 198 Them fully satisfy’d, and thee appease. A bevy of fair women. Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 77. Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 582. 190 199 So scented the grim Feature, and The brazen throat of war. upturn’d Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 713. His nostril wide into the murky air, 200 Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Some natural tears they dropp’d, but Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 279. wip’d them soon; 191 The world was all before them, where to How gladly would I meet choose Mortality my sentence, and be earth Their place of rest, and Providence their Insensible! how glad would lay me down guide. As in my mother’s lap! They hand in hand, with wand’ring steps Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 775. and slow, 192 Through Eden took their solitary way. Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?— Paradise Lost. Book xii. Line 645. thus leave 201 Thee, native soil, these happy walks and Beauty stands shades? In the admiration only of weak minds Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 269. Led captive. 193 Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line Then purg’d with euphrasy and rue 220. The visual nerve, for he had much to see. 202 Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 414. Rocks whereon greatest men have 194 oftest wreck’d. Moping melancholy Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line And moon-struck madness. 228. Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 485. 203 195 Of whom to be disprais’d were no And over them triumphant Death his small praise. dart Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line Shook, but delay’d to strike, though oft 56. invok’d. 204 Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 491. Elephants endors’d with towers. 196 Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line So may’st thou live, till like ripe fruit 329. thou drop 205 Into thy mother’s lap. Syene, and where the shadow both Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 535. way falls, Meroe, Nilotic isle. Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 327. 70. 213 206 As children gath’ring pebbles on the Dusk faces with white silken turbans shore. wreath’d. Or if I would delight my private hours Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line With music or with poem, where so soon 76. As in our native language can I find 207 That solace? The childhood shows the man, Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line As morning shows the day. 15 330. Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 214 220. Till morning fair 208 Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of gray. arts Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line And eloquence. 426. Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 215 240. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of 209 noon, The olive grove of Academe, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Plato’s retirement, where the Attic bird Without all hope of day! Trills her thick-warbled notes the Samson Agonistes. Line 80. summer long. 216 Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line The sun to me is dark 244. And silent as the moon, 210 When she deserts the night Thence to the famous orators repair, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Those ancient, whose resistless Samson Agonistes. Line 86. eloquence 217 Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin’d over And, weaponless himself, Greece, Made arms ridiculous. To Macedon, and Artaxerxes’ throne. Samson Agonistes. Line 129. Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 218 267. Just are the ways of God, 211 And justifiable to men; Socrates… Unless there be who think not God at all. Whom well inspir’d the oracle Samson Agonistes. Line 293. pronounc’d 219 Wisest of men. What boots it at one gate to make Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line defence, 274. And at another to let in the foe? 212 Samson Agonistes. Line 560. Deep vers’d in books, and shallow in 220 himself. But who is this, what thing of sea or 226 land,— Above the smoke and stir of this dim Female of sex it seems,— spot That so bedeck’d, ornate, and gay, Which men call earth. Comes this way sailing Comus. Line 5. Like a stately ship 227 Of Tarsus, bound for th’ isles That golden key Of Javan or Gadire, That opes the palace of eternity. With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Comus. Line 13. Sails fill’d, and streamers waving, 228 Courted by all the winds that hold them The nodding horror of whose shady play, brows An amber scent of odorous perfume Threats the forlorn and wandering Her harbinger? passenger. Samson Agonistes. Line 710. Comus. Line 38. 221 229 Yet beauty, though injurious, hath I will tell you now strange power, What never yet was heard in tale or After offence returning, to regain song, Love once possess’d. From old or modern bard, in hall or Samson Agonistes. Line 1003. bower. 222 Comus. Line 43. He ’s gone, and who knows how he 230 may report Bacchus, that first from out the purple Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? grape Samson Agonistes. Line 1350. Crush’d the sweet poison of misused 223 wine. For evil news rides post, while good Comus. Line 46. news baits. 231 Samson Agonistes. Line 1538. These my sky-robes spun out of Iris’ 224 woof. And as an ev’ning dragon came, Comus. Line 83. Assailant on the perched roosts 232 And nests in order rang’d The star that bids the shepherd fold. Of tame villatic fowl. Comus. Line 93. Samson Agonistes. Line 1692. 233 225 Midnight shout and revelry, Nothing is here for tears, nothing to Tipsy dance and jollity. wail Comus. Line 103. Or knock the breast, no weakness, no 234 contempt, Ere the blabbing eastern scout, Dispraise, or blame,—nothing but well The nice morn, on th’ Indian steep and fair, From her cabin’d loop-hole peep. And what may quiet us in a death so Comus. Line 138. noble. 235 Samson Agonistes. Line 1721. When the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer’s weed, 243 Rose from the hindmost wheels of I took it for a faery vision Phœbus’ wain. Of some gay creatures of the element, Comus. Line 188. That in the colours of the rainbow live, 236 And play i’ th’ plighted clouds. A thousand fantasies Comus. Line 298. Begin to throng into my memory, 244 Of calling shapes, and beck’ning It were a journey like the path to shadows dire, heaven, And airy tongues that syllable men’s To help you find them. names Comus. Line 303. On sands and shores and desert 245 wildernesses. With thy long levell’d rule of Comus. Line 205. streaming light. 237 Comus. Line 340. O welcome, pure-ey’d Faith, white- 246 handed Hope, Virtue could see to do what virtue Thou hovering angel, girt with golden would wings! By her own radiant light, though sun and Comus. Line 213. moon 238 Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom’s Was I deceiv’d, or did a sable cloud self Turn forth her silver lining on the night? Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Comus. Line 221. Where with her best nurse 239 Contemplation Can any mortal mixture of earth’s She plumes her feathers and lets grow mould her wings, Breathe such divine enchanting That in the various bustle of resort ravishment? Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes Comus. Line 244. impair’d. 240 He that has light within his own clear How sweetly did they float upon the breast wings May sit i’ th’ centre and enjoy bright Of silence through the empty-vaulted day; night, But he that hides a dark soul and foul At every fall smoothing the raven down thoughts Of darkness till it smil’d! Benighted walks under the midday sun. Comus. Line 249. Comus. Line 373. 241 247 Who, as they sung, would take the The unsunn’d heaps prison’d soul Of miser’s treasure. And lap it in Elysium. Comus. Line 398. Comus. Line 256. 248 242 ’T is chastity, my brother, chastity: Such sober certainty of waking bliss. She that has that is clad in complete Comus. Line 263. steel. Comus. Line 420. Comus. Line 560. 249 255 Some say no evil thing that walks by That power night, Which erring men call Chance. In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Comus. Line 587. Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid 256 ghost If this fail, That breaks his magic chains at curfew The pillar’d firmament is rottenness, time, And earth’s base built on stubble. No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Comus. Line 597. Hath hurtful power o’er true virginity. 257 Comus. Line 432. The leaf was darkish, and had prickles 250 on it, So dear to heav’n is saintly chastity, But in another country, as he said, That when a soul is found sincerely so, Bore a bright golden flow’r, but not in A thousand liveried angels lackey her, this soil; Driving far off each thing of sin and Unknown, and like esteem’d, and the guilt, dull swain And in clear dream and solemn vision Treads on it daily with his clouted Tell her of things that no gross ear can shoon. hear, Comus. Line 631. Till oft converse with heav’nly habitants 258 Begin to cast a beam on th’ outward Enter’d the very lime-twigs of his shape. spells, Comus. Line 453. And yet came off. 251 Comus. Line 646. How charming is divine philosophy! 259 Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools This cordial julep here, suppose, That flames and dances in his crystal But musical as is Apollo’s lute, 16 bounds. And a perpetual feast of nectar’d sweets Comus. Line 672. Where no crude surfeit reigns. 260 Comus. Line 476. Budge doctors of the Stoic fur. 252 Comus. Line 707. And sweeten’d every musk-rose of the 261 dale. And live like Nature’s bastards, not Comus. Line 496. her sons. 253 Comus. Line 727. Fill’d the air with barbarous 262 dissonance. It is for homely features to keep home, Comus. Line 550. — 254 They had their name thence; coarse I was all ear, complexions And took in strains that might create a And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to soul ply Under the ribs of death. The sampler and to tease the huswife’s Lycidas. Line 3. wool. 270 What need a vermeil-tinctur’d lip for He knew that, Himself to sing, and build the lofty Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the rhyme. morn? Lycidas. Line 10. Comus. Line 748. 271 263 Without the meed of some melodious Swinish gluttony tear. Ne’er looks to heav’n amidst his Lycidas. Line 14. gorgeous feast, 272 But with besotted base ingratitude Under the opening eyelids of the Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. morn. Comus. Line 776. Lycidas. Line 26. 264 273 Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, But oh the heavy change, now thou art That hath so well been taught her gone, dazzling fence. Now thou art gone and never must Comus. Line 790. return! 265 Lycidas. Line 37. His rod revers’d, 274 And backward mutters of dissevering The gadding vine. power. Lycidas. Line 40. Comus. Line 816. 275 266 And strictly meditate the thankless Sabrina fair, Muse. Listen where thou art sitting Lycidas. Line 66. Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, 276 In twisted braids of lilies knitting To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, The loose train of thy amber-dropping Or with the tangles of Neæra’s hair. hair. Lycidas. Line 68. Comus. Line 859. 277 267 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit But now my task is smoothly done, doth raise 17 I can fly, or I can run. (That last infirmity of noble mind) Comus. Line 1012. To scorn delights, and live laborious 268 days; Or if Virtue feeble were, But the fair guerdon when we hope to Heav’n itself would stoop to her. find, Comus. Line 1022. And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 269 Comes the blind Fury with th’ abhorred I come to pluck your berries harsh and shears crude, And slits the thin-spun life. And with forc’d fingers rude Lycidas. Line 70. Shatter your leaves before the mellowing 278 year. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal Flames in the forehead of the morning soil. sky. Lycidas. Line 78. Lycidas. Line 168. 279 284 It was that fatal and perfidious bark, He touch’d the tender stops of various Built in th’ eclipse, and rigg’d with quills, curses dark. With eager thought warbling his Doric Lycidas. Line 100. lay. 280 Lycidas. Line 188. The pilot of the Galilean lake; 285 Two massy keys he bore, of metals To-morrow to fresh woods and twain pastures new. (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). Lycidas. Line 193. Lycidas. Line 109. 286 281 Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with But that two-handed engine at the thee door Jest and youthful Jollity, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, more. Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles. Lycidas. Line 130. L’Allegro. Line 25. 282 287 Throw hither all your quaint Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, enamell’d eyes And Laughter holding both his sides. That on the green turf suck the honied Come and trip it as ye go, showers, On the light fantastic toe. And purple all the ground with vernal L’Allegro. Line 31. flowers. 288 Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. dies, L’Allegro. Line 36. The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, 289 The white pink, and the pansy freakt And every shepherd tells his tale with jet, Under the hawthorn in the dale. The glowing violet, L’Allegro. Line 67. The musk-rose, and the well-attir’d 290 woodbine, Meadows trim with daisies pied, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive Shallow brooks and rivers wide; head, Towers and battlements it sees And every flower that sad embroidery Bosom’d high in tufted trees, wears. Where perhaps some beauty lies, Lycidas. Line 139. The cynosure of neighboring eyes. 283 L’Allegro. Line 75. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, 291 And yet anon repairs his drooping head, Herbs, and other country messes, And tricks his beams, and with new- Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. spangled ore L’Allegro. Line 85. 292 To many a youth and many a maid And join with thee calm Peace and Dancing in the chequer’d shade. Quiet, L’Allegro. Line 95. Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. 293 Il Penseroso. Line 45. Then to the spicy nut-brown ale. 303 L’Allegro. Line 100. And add to these retired Leisure, 294 That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. Tower’d cities please us then, Il Penseroso. Line 49. And the busy hum of men. 304 L’Allegro. Line 117. Sweet bird, that shun’st the noise of 295 folly, Ladies, whose bright eyes Most musical, most melancholy! Rain influence, and judge the prize. Il Penseroso. Line 61. L’Allegro. Line 121. 305 296 I walk unseen Such sights as youthful poets dream On the dry smooth-shaven green, On summer eves by haunted stream. To behold the wandering moon Then to the well-trod stage anon, Riding near her highest noon, If Jonson’s learned sock be on, Like one that had been led astray Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child, Through the heav’n’s wide pathless way; Warble his native wood-notes wild. And oft, as if her head she bow’d, L’Allegro. Line 129. Stooping through a fleecy cloud. 297 Il Penseroso. Line 65. And ever against eating cares 306 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Where glowing embers through the Married to immortal verse, 18 room Such as the meeting soul may pierce, Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. In notes with many a winding bout Il Penseroso. Line 79. Of linked sweetness long drawn out. 307 L’Allegro. Line 135. Far from all resort of mirth 298 Save the cricket on the hearth. Untwisting all the chains that tie Il Penseroso. Line 81. The hidden soul of harmony. 308 L’Allegro. Line 143. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy 299 In sceptred pall come sweeping by, The gay motes that people the Presenting Thebes, or Pelops’ line, sunbeams. Or the tale of Troy divine. Il Penseroso. Line 8. Il Penseroso. Line 97. 300 309 And looks commercing with the skies, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. Such notes as, warbled to the string, Il Penseroso. Line 39. Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek. 301 Il Penseroso. Line 105. Forget thyself to marble. 310 Il Penseroso. Line 42. Or call up him that left half told 302 The story of Cambuscan bold. Il Penseroso. Line 109. Time will run back and fetch the age 311 of gold. Where more is meant than meets the Hymn on Christ’s Nativity. Line ear. 135. Il Penseroso. Line 120. 322 312 Swinges the scaly horror of his folded When the gust hath blown his fill, tail. Ending on the rustling leaves Hymn on Christ’s Nativity. Line With minute drops from off the eaves. 172. Il Penseroso. Line 128. 323 313 The oracles are dumb, Hide me from day’s garish eye. No voice or hideous hum Il Penseroso. Line 141. Runs through the arched roof in words 314 deceiving. And storied windows richly dight, Apollo from his shrine Casting a dim religious light. Can no more divine, Il Penseroso. Line 159. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos 315 leaving. Till old experience do attain No nightly trance or breathed spell To something like prophetic strain. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the Il Penseroso. Line prophetic cell. 316 Hymn on Christ’s Nativity. Line Such sweet compulsion doth in music 324 lie. From haunted spring and dale Arcades. Line 68. Edg’d with poplar pale 317 The parting genius is with sighing sent. Under the shady roof Hymn on Christ’s Nativity. Line Of branching elm star-proof. 184. Arcades. Line 88. 325 318 Peor and Baälim O fairest flower! no sooner blown but Forsake their temples dim. blasted, Hymn on Christ’s Nativity. Line Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. 197. Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, 326 dying of a Cough. What needs my Shakespeare for his 319 honour’d bones,— Such as may make thee search the The labour of an age in piled stones? coffers round. Or that his hallow’d relics should be hid At a Vacation Exercise. Line 31. Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? 320 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, No war or battle’s sound What need’st thou such weak witness of Was heard the world around. thy name? Hymn on Christ’s Nativity. Line Epitaph on Shakespeare. 53. 327 321 And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish And post o’er land and ocean without to die. rest; Epitaph on Shakespeare. They also serve who only stand and 328 wait. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of On his Blindness. day. 19 337 Sonnet to the Nightingale. What neat repast shall feast us, light 329 and choice, As ever in my great Taskmaster’s eye. Of Attic taste? On his being arrived to the Age of To Mr. Lawrence. Twenty-three. 338 330 In mirth that after no repenting draws. The great Emathian conqueror bid Sonnet xxi. To Cyriac Skinner. spare 339 The house of Pindarus, when temple and For other things mild Heav’n a time tower ordains, Went to the ground. And disapproves that care, though wise When the Assault was intended to in show, the City. That with superfluous burden loads the 331 day, That old man eloquent. And when God sends a cheerful hour, To the Lady Margaret Ley. refrains. 332 Sonnet xxi. To Cyriac Skinner. That would have made Quintilian 340 stare and gasp. Yet I argue not On the Detraction which followed Against Heav’n’s hand or will, nor bate upon my writing certain Treatises. a jot 333 Of heart or hope; but still bear up and License they mean when they cry, steer Liberty! Right onward. For who loves that must first be wise and Sonnet xxii. To Cyriac Skinner. good. 341 On the Detraction which followed Of which all Europe rings from side to upon my writing certain Treatises. side. 334 Sonnet xxii. To Cyriac Skinner. Peace hath her victories 342 No less renown’d than war. But oh! as to embrace me she inclin’d, To the Lord General Cromwell. I wak’d, she fled, and day brought back 335 my night. Ev’n them who kept thy truth so pure On his Deceased Wife. of old, 343 When all our fathers worshipp’d stocks Have hung and stones. My dank and dropping weeds On the late Massacre in Piedmont. To the stern god of sea. 336 Translation of Horace. Book i. Thousands at his bidding speed, Ode 5. 344 352 For such kind of borrowing as this, if I shall detain you no longer in the it be not bettered by the borrowers, demonstration of what we should not do, among good authors is accounted but straight conduct ye to a hillside, Plagiarè. where I will point ye out the right path Iconoclastes, xxiii. of a virtuous and noble education; 345 laborious indeed at the first ascent, but Truth is as impossible to be soiled by else so smooth, so green, so full of any outward touch as the sunbeam. 20 goodly prospect and melodious sounds Doctrine and Discipline of on every side that the harp of Orpheus Divorce. was not more charming. 346 Tractate of Education. A poet soaring in the high reason of 353 his fancies, with his garland and singing Enflamed with the study of learning robes about him. and the admiration of virtue; stirred up The Reason of Church with high hopes of living to be brave Government. Introduction, Book ii. men and worthy patriots, dear to God, 347 and famous to all ages. By labour and intent study (which I Tractate of Education. take to be my portion in this life), joined 354 with the strong propensity of nature, I Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule might perhaps leave something so of Plato…. To which poetry would be written to after times as they should not made subsequent, or indeed rather willingly let it die. precedent, as being less suttle and fine, The Reason of Church but more simple, sensuous, and Government. Introduction, Book ii. passionate. 348 Tractate of Education. Beholding the bright countenance of 355 truth in the quiet and still air of In those vernal seasons of the year, delightful studies. when the air is calm and pleasant, it The Reason of Church were an injury and sullenness against Government. Introduction, Book ii. Nature not to go out and see her riches, 349 and partake in her rejoicing with heaven He who would not be frustrate of his and earth. hope to write well hereafter in laudable Tractate of Education. things ought himself to be a true poem. 356 Apology for Smectymnuus. Attic tragedies of stateliest and most 350 regal argument. His words, like so many nimble and Tractate of Education. airy servitors, trip about him at 357 command. As good almost kill a man as kill a Apology for Smectymnuus. good book: who kills a man kills a 351 reasonable creature, God’s image; but he Litigious terms, fat contentions, and who destroys a good book kills reason flowing fees. itself. Tractate of Education. Areopagitica. 358 365 A good book is the precious life-blood By this time, like one who had set out of a master-spirit, embalmed and on his way by night, and travelled treasured up on purpose to a life beyond through a region of smooth or idle life. dreams, our history now arrives on the Areopagitica. confines, where daylight and truth meet 359 us with a clear dawn, representing to our Seasoned life of man preserved and view, though at a far distance, true stored up in books. colours and shapes. Areopagitica. The History of England. Book i. 360 366 I cannot praise a fugitive and Such bickerings to recount, met often cloistered virtue, unexercised and in these our writers, what more worth is unbreathed, that never sallies out and it than to chronicle the wars of kites or sees her adversary, but slinks out of the crows flocking and fighting in the air? race where that immortal garland is to be The History of England. Book iv. run for, not without dust and heat. Areopagitica. 361 Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? Areopagitica. 362 Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Areopagitica. 363 Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? 21 Areopagitica. 364 Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. Tetrachordon.