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
future men together
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
grief rivers joy
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
pain evil perfect
Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
judging infinite pardon
But infinite in pardon is my Judge.
fall tears faults
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?
men evil mind
Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.
equality splendor assuming
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
death life-death dies
Where all life dies death lives.
death ready
Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
death sleep immortal-life
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
book men essence
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.
courage yield submit
Courage never to submit of yield.
temptation lasts corruption
He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.
stars heaven unseen
At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.