“ Judge not what is best By pleasure, though to nature seeming meet ”
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667). copy citation
Author | John Milton |
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Source | Paradise Lost |
Topic | pleasure good |
Date | 1667 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26/pg26-images.html |
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“Much better seems this vision, and more hope Of peaceful days portends, than those two past; Those were of hate and death, or pain much worse; Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends. To whom thus Michael. Judge not what is best By pleasure, though to nature seeming meet; Created, as thou art, to nobler end Holy and pure, conformity divine. Those tents thou sawest so pleasant, were the tents Of wickedness, wherein shall dwell his race Who slew his brother; studious they appear Of arts that polish life, inventers rare;”
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