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Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
Topic: Cookery
Source: L'Allegro (l. 85)
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Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread.
Topic: Cowslips
Source: Comus--Song
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Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
Topic: Dancing
Source: Comus (l. 143)
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Come and trip it as ye go,
On the light fantastic toe.
Topic: Dancing
Source: L'Allegro (l. 33)
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Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
Topic: Dancing
Source: L'Allegro (l. 96)
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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who
could not hear the music.
Topic: Dancing
Source: L'Allegro (l. 96)
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Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
Topic: Darkness
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 62)
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He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
Topic: Deceit
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 110)
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Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
Topic: Despair
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 141)
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Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
Topic: Despair
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 44)
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Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.
Topic: Devil
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.
Topic: Devil
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.
Topic: Devil
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.
Topic: Devil
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 742)
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Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
To that bad eminence.
Topic: Devil
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.
Topic: Devil
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.
Topic: Devil
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.
Topic: Devil
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.
Topic: Devil
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 658)
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Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Topic: Dew
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 746)
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Left that command
Sole daughter of his voice.
Topic: Duty
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 652)
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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
Topic: Eagles
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 184)
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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
Topic: Eating
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 637)
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meander's margent green,
And in the violet-embroidered vale.
Topic: Echo
Source: Comus--Song
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What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
Topic: Enemies
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 560)
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Topic: Enemies
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 560)
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Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
Topic: Enjoyment
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 305)
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Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
Topic: Enjoyment
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 365)
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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher design than to enjoy his state.
Topic: Enjoyment
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 201)
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That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
Topic: Eternity
Source: Comus (l. 13)
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(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
Topic: Eternity
Source: Comus (l. 13)
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Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
They to they grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.
Topic: Evening
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 598)
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Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
Topic: Evening
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 278)
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Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,
And giv'st access, though secret she retire.
Topic: Experience
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 807)
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Human face divine.
Topic: Faces
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 44)
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In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
Topic: Faces
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 853)
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If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
Topic: Failure
Source: Comus (l. 597)
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O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
Topic: Faith
Source: Comus (l. 213)
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That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, and peace
Of conscience.
Topic: Faith
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 294)
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Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.
Topic: Faith
Source: To Cyriack Skinner
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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.
Topic: Fidelity
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 896)
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Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.
Topic: Fire
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 77)
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Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras.
Topic: Flags
Source: Comus (l. 604)
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The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced,
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.
Topic: Flags
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 536)
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Under spreading ensigns moving nigh, in slow
But firm battalion.
Topic: Flags
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 533)
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These evils I deserve, and more
. . . .
Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,
Whose ear is ever open, and his eye
Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,170)
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So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
Topic: Fraud
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 643)
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Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined.
Topic: Fraud
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 904)
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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
Topic: Fraud
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 1)
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He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
Topic: Gossip
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,350)
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