Mw Captive Power

Famous quotes containing the words captive and/or power:

“My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile;
Death his deaths wound shall then receive, & stoop
*nglorious, of his mortall sting disarm’d.
I through the ample Air in Triumph high
Shall lead Hell Captive maugre Hell, and show
The powers of darkness bound. Thou at the sight
Pleas’d, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“There is a power whose care
Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,—”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)