John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
quarrels providence ends
I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.
temples christ force
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
arches shade brooks
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.
faithful fidelity found
Faithful found among the faithless.
astrology rubrics
No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
thrones oratory fierce
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
confusion ruins paradise-lost-book-2
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
bible men hands
It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
character men past
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
soil fame plant
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
dragons order fowl
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
unwise servitude
This is servitude, To serve the unwise.
peers satan pandemonium
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
pairs honour mutual
O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?