John Milton on Easter
1608–1674 England
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Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
If not, what resolution from despair.
Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
Comus (1637)
That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, and peace
Of conscience.
For spirits that live throughout
Vital in every part, not as frail man,
In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins,
Cannot but by annihilating die.
Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
Tractate of Education (1644)
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good.
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Areopagitica (1644)
Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer
Eight onward.
For who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night,
Devoid of sense and motion?