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“They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat,
Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes:
Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon;
The World was all before them, where to choose
Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
Through EDEN took thir solitarie way.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

x.1532-40
Paradise Lost (1667)

World , Way , Nature , Tear

“Have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern god of sea.”

John Milton

Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5

God , Sea

“Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy”

John Milton

At a Solemn Music (c. 1637), line 1

Joy

“Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell,
And devilish machinations come to nought.”

John Milton Paradise Regained

Book I: Lines 72-73
Paradise Regained (1671)

Hell

“The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground.”

John Milton

Sonnet VIII: When the Assault was intended to the City

Housing

“For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.”

John Milton

The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume II, Book III. http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Milton0174/ProseWorks/HTMLs/0233-02_Pt08b_LongParliament.html (1847)

Men , People , Age , Law

“Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.”

John Milton

On His Deceased Wife (c. 1658)

“O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,
Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”

John Milton

Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Flowers

“Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.”

John Milton

Tractate of Education (1644)

“Mirth, admit me of thy crew,
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreprovèd pleasures free.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 38

Pleasure

“And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry,
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream.
Then to the well-trod stage anon,
If Jonson's learned sock be on,
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child,
Warble his native wood-notes wild,
And ever, against eating cares,
Lap me in soft Lydian airs,
Married to immortal verse
Such as the meeting soul may pierce,
In notes with many a winding bout
Of linked sweetness long drawn out.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 127; comparable to: "Wisdom married to immortal verse", William Wordsworth, The Excursion, book vii

Youth , Dreams , Soul , Learning

“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”

John Milton

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce Preface: "TO THE PARLAMENT OF ENGLAND" https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/ddd/parliament/text.shtml (1643)

Forgetting

“Of which all Europe rings from side to side.”

John Milton

To Cyriack Skinner, upon His Blindness (c. 1655)

“Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,
Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,
If ever deed of honour did thee please,
Guard them, and him within protect from harms.”

John Milton

Sonnet VIII: When the Assault was Intended to the City

Chance

“I walk unseen
On the dry smooth-shaven green,
To behold the wandering moon,
Riding near her highest noon,
Like one that had been led astray
Through the heav'n's wide pathless way,
And oft, as if her head she bowed,
Stooping through a fleecy cloud.”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 65

Way

“The oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,
With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.
No nightly trance or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.”

John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hymn, stanza 19, line 173
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

“But, O sad Virgin, that thy power
Might raise Musaeus from his bower,
Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as warbled to the string,
Drew Iron tears down Pluto’s cheek,
And made Hell grant what Love did seek.”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 105

Love , Sadness , Soul , Hell

“Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides,
Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide
Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 156

World

“Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.”

John Milton

The Reason of Church Government, Introduction, Book ii

Truth , Study

“He knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 10

Singing