Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
-- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 502
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
-- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 502
Related:
- And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
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Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line... - And touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.
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John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii... - Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii... - Her silent course advance
With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps
On her soft axle.
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii... - Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine.
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii... - Those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions.
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii... - So well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say
Seems wisest,
virtuousest, discreetest, best. -- John Milton (1608... - Abash'd the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is,
and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. -- John Milton... - Into this wild abyss,
The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii...
