And happy constellations on that hour The sum of earthly bliss. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 508. So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Oft times nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Line 522. Line 548. Line 561. Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late. Unless an age too late, or cold Line 618. Book ix. Line 24. Line 26. Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. Line 44. To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. Line 239. 1 "But most of all respect thyself."- A precept of the Pythagoreans. For solitude sometimes is best society, At shut of evening flowers. Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 249. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. Line 278. Line 445. Line 549. Line 633. Left that command Sole daughter of his voice.1 Line 652. Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Line 782. Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth. Book x. Line 77. Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? — thus leave Line 279. Line 775. Book xi. Line 269. -WORDSWORTH: Ode to Duty. 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. And over them triumphant Death his dart So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st A bevy of fair women. The brazen throat of war. Line 485. Line 491. Line 535. Line 553. Line 582. Line 713. Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. Beauty stands Book xii. Line 645. Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 220. In the admiration only of weak minds Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. Elephants endors'd with towers. Line 228. Book iii. Line 56. Line 329. Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, Book iv. Line 70. Line 76. Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd. 1 Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes (Neither fear nor wish for your last day). MARTIAL: lib. x. epigram 47, line 13. The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.1 Paradise Regained Book iv. Line 220. Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, Line 267. Socrates . . . Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. Line 274. Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. Line 327. As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Without all hope of day! Line 330. Line 426. Samson Agonistes. Line 80. 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. Line 293. What boots it at one gate to make defence, But who is this, what thing of sea or land, 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? Line 560. Line 710. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, Love once possess'd. Line 1003. He's gone, and who knows how he may report Line 1350. For evil news rides post, while good news baits. Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Line 1721. |