Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.