John Milton ( 10 of 239 )
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is read more
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
. . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
. . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
