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
powerful military war
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
hands eden world
The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
eye people blindness
They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
time elements may
Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.
morning stars flower
Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
food black sin
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
grief loss dark
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
able bears blind
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
nature done environment
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
god night men
And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night...
excellence firsts
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.