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
brother arrows nymphs
Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
sweet art sight
O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost
truth tolerance religion
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
joy paradise woe
O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
law arguing sin
So many laws argues so many sins.
differences scripture duty
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.
ambition deeds doers
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
perseverance giving silence
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
too-much taught drink
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
writing hands knowing
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
spiritual freedom men
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
weakness wickedness
Wickedness is weakness.
men wickedness may
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
work men mind
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.