Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. John Milton More Quotes by John Milton More Quotes From John Milton But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending. John Milton blessed time song Heaven John Milton thee heaven book I see thou art implacable, more deaf John Milton hate wind art Only add John Milton soul names add O Conscience, into what abyss of fears John Milton fear loss way Let no man seek John Milton men children Faithful found among the faithless. John Milton fidelity faithful found The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. John Milton future together men For what is glory but the blaze of fame? John Milton glory fame And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. John Milton eye soul sky Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. John Milton couple hate law 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. John Milton ribs loss art And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. John Milton shepherds tales The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious. John Milton atheism liberty men Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton good-man atheism men For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power. John Milton atheism errors strong Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it. John Milton voice winning numbers First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol. John Milton sacrifice kings fire All hell broke loose. John Milton broke hell Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste. John Milton waste war
