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"If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble."
John Milton / Comus. Line 597.
Comus. Line 597.
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"The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon."
John Milton / Comus. Line 631.
Comus. Line 631.
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"Enter'd the very lime-twigs of his spells, And yet came off."
John Milton / Comus. Line 646.
Comus. Line 646.
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"This cordial julep here, That flames and dances in his crystal bounds."
John Milton / Comus. Line 672.
Comus. Line 672.
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"Budge doctors of the Stoic fur."
John Milton / Comus. Line 707.
Comus. Line 707.
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"And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons."
John Milton / Comus. Line 727.
Comus. Line 727.
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"It is for homely features to keep home,-- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?"
John Milton / Comus. Line 748.
Comus. Line 748.
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"Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his feeder."
John Milton / Comus. Line 776.
Comus. Line 776.
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"Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence."
John Milton / Comus. Line 790.
Comus. Line 790.
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"His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power."
John Milton / Comus. Line 816.
Comus. Line 816.
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"Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair."
John Milton / Comus. Line 859.
Comus. Line 859.
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"But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run."
John Milton / Comus. Line 1012.
Comus. Line 1012.
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"Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her."
John Milton / Comus. Line 1022.
Comus. Line 1022.
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"I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 3.
Lycidas. Line 3.
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"He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 10.
Lycidas. Line 10.
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"Without the meed of some melodious tear."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 14.
Lycidas. Line 14.
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"Under the opening eyelids of the morn."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 26.
Lycidas. Line 26.
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"But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!"
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 37.
Lycidas. Line 37.
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"The gadding vine."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 40.
Lycidas. Line 40.
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"And strictly meditate the thankless Muse."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 66.
Lycidas. Line 66.
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"To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neæra's hair."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 68.
Lycidas. Line 68.
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"Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 70.
Lycidas. Line 70.
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"Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 78.
Lycidas. Line 78.
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"It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 100.
Lycidas. Line 100.
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"The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain)."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 109.
Lycidas. Line 109.
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"But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 130.
Lycidas. Line 130.
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"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. Line 139.
Lycidas. Line 139.
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"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."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 168.
Lycidas. Line 168.
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"He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 188.
Lycidas. Line 188.
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"To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new."
John Milton / Lycidas. Line 193.
Lycidas. Line 193.
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"Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 25.
L'Allegro. Line 25.
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"Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 31.
L'Allegro. Line 31.
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"The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 36.
L'Allegro. Line 36.
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"And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 67.
L'Allegro. Line 67.
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"Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 75.
L'Allegro. Line 75.
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"Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 85.
L'Allegro. Line 85.
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"To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer'd shade."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 95.
L'Allegro. Line 95.
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"Then to the spicy nut-brown ale."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 100.
L'Allegro. Line 100.
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"Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 117.
L'Allegro. Line 117.
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"Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 121.
L'Allegro. Line 121.
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"Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eyes 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."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 129.
L'Allegro. Line 129.
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"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 / L'Allegro. Line 135.
L'Allegro. Line 135.
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"Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."
John Milton / L'Allegro. Line 143.
L'Allegro. Line 143.
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"The gay motes that people the sunbeams."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 8.
Il Penseroso. Line 8.
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"And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 39.
Il Penseroso. Line 39.
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"Forget thyself to marble."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 42.
Il Penseroso. Line 42.
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"And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 45.
Il Penseroso. Line 45.
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"And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 49.
Il Penseroso. Line 49.
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"Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!"
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 61.
Il Penseroso. Line 61.
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"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 bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 65.
Il Penseroso. Line 65.
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