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John Milton Quotes on Beauty

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1. “Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”

John Milton

Music, Influence, Beauty, Power, Art

2. “Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.”

John Milton

Beauty, Weakness, Captivity, Perception, Moral Strength

3. “Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.”

John Milton

Morning, Nature, Beauty, Birdsong, Sensory Experience

4. “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

Nature, Beauty, Landscape, Pastoral, Poetry

5. “Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.”

John Milton

Nature, Mythology, Poetry, Sound, Beauty

6. “Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.”

John Milton

Beauty, Nature, Display, Society, Admiration

7. “How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!”

John Milton

Night, Silence, Beauty, Darkness, Poetic Imagery

8. “Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?”

John Milton

Music, Intimacy, Silence, Beauty, Sensuality

9. “The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”

John Milton

Nature, Light, Beauty, Observation, Poetic Imagery

10. “Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.”

John Milton

Beauty, Influence, Judgment, Femininity, Social Power

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

John Milton

Beauty, Forgiveness, Love, Human Nature, Redemption

12. “Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.”

John Milton

Nature, Trees, Landscape, Beauty, Poetic Imagery

13. “Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.”

John Milton

Beauty, Nature, Sharing, Happiness, Human Connection

14. “Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.”

John Milton

Music, Soul, Beauty, Harmony, Artistic Expression

15. “Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.”

John Milton

Grace, Beauty, Love, Divinity, Femininity

16. “Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.”

John Milton

Nature, Abundance, Beauty, Imagery, Cosmic Scale

17. “How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.”

John Milton

Philosophy, Beauty, Wisdom, Harmony, Intellectual Pleasure