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John Milton Quotes - Page 23

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

Book, Paradise, Down And

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.36

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Education, War, Men

"Paradise Lost and Other Poems".

Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

Fate, Yield, Judging

John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

Stars, Dust, Gold

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.275

And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

Stars, Cells, Heaven

c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

Love, Wise, Mean

"I did but prompt the age" l. 11 (1673)

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Truth, Air, Quiet

'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

Iron, Soul, Tears

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

Song, Larks, Nests

John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton”, p.72

And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

Dragons, Order, Fowl

John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.592, Hackett Publishing

Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

Poetry, Age, Ornaments

"Paradise Lost". The Verse, 1668.

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

Lying, Father, Mountain

John Milton (2004). “The Complete Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

Hazards, Equal, Enterprise

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 88

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

Life, Men, Humans

1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.250-1.

But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

Prayer, Mind, May

John Milton (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton ...”, p.228

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

Thinking, Joy, Delight

John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.262

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

Religious, Eye, Blow

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 157

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

Nymphs, Wreaths, Dimples

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 25

With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.

Time, Eye, Arms

O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

Pairs, Honour, Mutual

1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.57-8.

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

Hair, Locks, Purpose

Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

Book, Heaven, Thee

John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.286, Mercer University Press

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

Fate, Greatness, Hands

John Milton (1866). “Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton”, p.389

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

Music, Ears, Tone

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 620

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Art, Taken, Dust

John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton”, p.235

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