| 254 Famous Quotes by John Milton
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“Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”
Misfortune Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 228)
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“Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”
Trials Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 228)
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“Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?”
Clouds Quotes Source: Comus (l. 22)
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“There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.”
Clouds Quotes Source: Comus (l. 223)
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“So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.”
Clouds Quotes Source: Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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“The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.”
Clouds Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 490)
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“The planets in their station list'ning stood.”
Sky Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 563)
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“Ride the air
In whirlwind.”
Storms Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 545)
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“Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.”
Devil Quotes Source: Hymn on Christ's Nativity (l. 172)
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“The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile,
Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind.”
Devil Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 34)
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“His form had yet not lost
All his original brightness, not appear'd
Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess
Of glory obscured.”
Devil Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 591)
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“From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.”
Devil Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 742)
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“Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
To that bad eminence.”
Devil Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 5)
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“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.”
Devil Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 670)
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“Incens'd with indignation Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiucus huge
In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.”
Devil Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 707)
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“Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw
And pined his loss.”
Devil Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 846)
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“Satan; so call him now, his former name
Is heard no more in heaven.”
Devil Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 658)
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“The rising world of waters dark and deep.”
Water Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 11)
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“Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance,
Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd
Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear,
Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat,
All other parts remaining as they were;
And they, so perfect in their misery,
Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.”
Intemperance Quotes Source: Comus (l. 64)
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“. . . And when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”
Intemperance Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 500)
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“That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Comus (l. 13)
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“(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Comus (l. 13)
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“And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.”
Grace Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 43)
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“Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour
Friendliest to sleep and silence.”
Midnight Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 667)
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“For such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
Confusion worse confounded.”
Ruin Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 993)
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