"Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 171.

"The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 208.

"Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 239.

"For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 249.

"At shut of evening flowers."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 278.

"As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 445.

"So gloz'd the tempter."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 549.

"Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 633.

"Left that command Sole daughter of his voice."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 652.

"Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 782.

"In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 853.

"A pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between."

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 1106.

"Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease."

Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 77.

"So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far."

Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 279.

"How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap!"

Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 775.

"Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?--thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?"

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 269.

"Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see."

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 414.

"Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness."

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 485.

"And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd."

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 491.

"So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap."

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 535.

"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven."

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 553.

"A bevy of fair women."

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 582.

"The brazen throat of war."

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 713.

"Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way."

Paradise Lost. Book xii. Line 645.

"Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive."

Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 220.

"Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd."

Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 228.

"Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise."

Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line 56.

"Elephants endors'd with towers."

Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line 329.

"Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, Meroe, Nilotic isle."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 70.

"Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 76.

"The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 220.

"Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 240.

"The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 244.

"Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267.

"Socrates . . . Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 274.

"Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 327.

"As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?"

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 330.

"Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray."

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 426.

"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!"

Samson Agonistes. Line 80.

"The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."

Samson Agonistes. Line 86.

"Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous."

Samson Agonistes. Line 129.

"Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all."

Samson Agonistes. Line 293.

"What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?"

Samson Agonistes. Line 560.

"But who is this, what thing of sea or land,-- Female of sex it seems,-- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?"

Samson Agonistes. Line 710.

"Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd."

Samson Agonistes. Line 1003.

"He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?"

Samson Agonistes. Line 1350.

"For evil news rides post, while good news baits."

Samson Agonistes. Line 1538.

"And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl."

Samson Agonistes. Line 1692.

"Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,--nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble."

Samson Agonistes. Line 1721.

"Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth."

Comus. Line 5.