Paradise Lost Book 1 Quotes by John Milton and many others.
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav’n.
Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
Th’ imperial ensign, which full high advanc’d
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th’ Etrurian shades High over-arch’d imbower.
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
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. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.
What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
If not, what resolution from despair.
If not, what resolution from despair.
From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropp’d from the Zenith like a falling star.
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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