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“Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 163

Angels

“Meadows trim, with daisies pied,
Shallow brooks, and rivers wide;
Towers and balements it sees
Bosomed high in tufted trees,
Where perhaps some beauty lies,
The cynosure of neighboring eyes.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 75

Beauty , Tree

“For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,
Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor;
So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed;
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,
Through the dear might of him that walked the waves.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 166

Star , Dead

“And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 67

“Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?”

John Milton

The History of England (1670), Book IV

War , Fight

“The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.”

John Milton

Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364

Love , God , Knowledge , Learning

“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”

John Milton

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction. Compare: "The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before", Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book ii (1605)

Truth

“When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless.”

John Milton

On His Blindness (1652)

Death , World , Light

“Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.”

John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hymn, stanza 14, line 135
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

Age , Time

“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold
A sheep-hook.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 119

“O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.”

John Milton

Sonnet, To the Nightingale (c. 1637)

“Truth…never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.”

John Milton

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction

Truth , World

“No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.”

John Milton

Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

Men , Stupidity , Nature

“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; … Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, … as have also long since our best English tragedies, as… trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”

John Milton

Introduction to Paradise Lost Added, 1668

Age , Music , Sense , Learning

“Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes
That on the green turf suck the honied showers,
And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies,
The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine,
The white pink, and the pansy freakt with jet,
The glowing violet,
The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine,
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 139

Sadness , Flowers

“It was that fatal and perfidious bark,
Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark,
That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 100

“Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.”

John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hymn, stanza 18, line 172
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

“Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son”

John Milton

To Mr. Lawrence (1656)

“Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 78

“Such as may make thee search the coffers round.”

John Milton

At a Vacation Exercise. Line 31, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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