He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.
-- Robert Pollok (1799-1827)
-- The Course of Time, Book viii, Line 616
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.
-- Robert Pollok (1799-1827)
-- The Course of Time, Book viii, Line 616
Related:
- With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out. -- Robert... - Sorrows remember'd sweeten present joy.
-- Robert Pollok (1799-1827)
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The Course of Time, Book i, Line... - He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane,"
And played familiar with his hoary locks.
Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book... - Just are the ways of Heaven: from Heaven proceed
The woes of man;
Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed,-- A theme of future... - A mind not to be chang'd by place or time.
The mind is its own place,
and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of... - 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... - And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
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Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line... - T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer,...
