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" With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons... "
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Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity

Gerald Lynch - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 228 pages
..."as it fell dusk" (AA, 308); and appropriately so, for, as Milton writes of the lewd Sons of Belial, "when Night / Darkens the Streets, then wander forth...the Sons / Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine (1.500-3). The celebration at the Mausoleum Club continues "all night long" (AA, 309). Of all the self-enriching...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...prigs as fast as butchers in Chicago handle hogs. RB Cunningham-Grahame (1852-1936) British author And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth...the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...III. (published in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 1, ed. by Roy P. Basler, 1953). 17 NNER (1871-1928), BriUsh author. Edward Wyndhan Tennanl: A Memoir, ch. 5 (1919). 7 A cheque JOHN MILTON (1 608-74), English poel. Paradise Lost, bk. I . 1 8 For art to exist, tor any sort of...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...astronomer, poet. The Rubaiyat Khayyam, st. 74, trans, by Edward FitzGerald, fourth edition (1879). 17 And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth...the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Paradise Lost, bk. 1, 1. 500-2 (1667). 18 Candy Is dandy But...
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Soldier and Scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 456 pages
...drawings. He was distinguished for his technical innovations and the excellence of his drawing. o i 3. "When night / Darkens the streets, then wander forth...sons / Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." Milton, Paradise Lost, 1:50o. 14. "Golden Arm," the Latin name made up for Gildersleeve by Johannes...
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Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost

John N. King - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...when the priest Turns atheist, as did Ely's sons, who filled With lust and violence the house of God. In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious...the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. (1.49o-5o2) Denoting both ignorance and unchastity, his "lewd" demeanor anticipates attack on Satan...
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Women and Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century: Specific controversies

Mike Sanders - Feminism - 2001 - 632 pages
...times, infest the streets, to the disturbance of all civil society; for we may again repeat with Milton, when night "Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons "Of Belial, flush'd with insolence and wine." For when "young men, void of understanding," are seduced by such...
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Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and ...

James Turner - History - 2002 - 380 pages
...last, than whom a Spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself . . . In Courts and Palaces he also Reigns And in luxurious...where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest Tow'rs, And injury and outrage: And when Night Darkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons Oí...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who filled With lust and violence the house of God.0 In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious...loftiest towers, And injury and outrage: and when night 500 Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.0 Wimess...
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Paradise Lost (Hughes Edition)

John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...I, p. 187). 495. The story ia found in I Samuel ii 12-25. With lust and violence the house of God. In Courts and Palaces he also Reigns And in luxurious Cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Tow'rs, And injury and outrage: And when Night SOP Darkens the Streets, then wander forth...
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