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Political literature

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 1.2

Political literature

Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 1.3

Political literature

If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man... And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals, that whisper softness in chambers?

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 2.0

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possessed.

1671

★ 2.0

What hath night to do with sleep?

Comus · 1634

★ 2.1

Political literature

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 2.1

Time, the subtle thief of youth.

1645

★ 2.1

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 2.1

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Apt words have power to suage The tumours of a troubled mind.

1671

★ 2.1

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

1674

★ 2.1

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 2.2

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

What thou art is mine; Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 2.2

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

In solitude What happiness? who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find?

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 2.2

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd The mother of mankind.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 2.2

Poem · Religious literature · Epic poem

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And Eloquence.

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 2.2

Poem · Religious literature · Epic poem

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 2.2

Play · Masque (play)

Yet where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion.

1634

★ 3.6

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.

1638

★ 3.6

Political literature

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 3.6

Political literature

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew the Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 3.6

Political literature

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 3.7

Pamphlet · Political literature

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates · 1649

★ 3.7

Pamphlet · Political literature

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

1649

★ 3.7

Poem · Tragedy (play)

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

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 3.7

Poem · Religious literature · Epic poem

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 3.8

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end; Not wedlock-treachery.

1671

★ 3.8

For what can war, but endless war still breed?

1674

★ 3.8

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

Poem · Religious literature · Epic poem

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

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

All hell broke loose.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

With thee conversing I forget all time.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Truth…never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

1643

★ 4.5

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.8

Political literature

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 5.3

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do What then thou would'st.

1671

★ 5.4

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