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John Milton Quotes - Page 8

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Book, Men, Self

"Complete Poems and Major Prose".

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

Strength, Truth, Wind

Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

Christmas, Mother, Kings

'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) st. 1

It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

Brother, Nymphs, Steel

John Milton, “Comus”

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

Wings, Thrones, Golden

John Milton (2013). “Samson Agonistes and Other Poems: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.20, Broadview Press

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

Ifs

John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.37, Courier Dover Publications

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

Beautiful, Coins, Bliss

'Comus' (1637) l. 739

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

Italian, Numbers, Long

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Christian, Evil, Vices

John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

Music, Wind, Breathe

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.82

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

Garden, Add, Leisure

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 49

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

Stars, Night, Dawn

John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.15

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

Kings, Lying, Wish To Die

John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.414

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

Sight, Views, Black

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 12

Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

Beauty, Lying, Eye

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 75

Hide me from day's garish eye.

Eye, Murmuring

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

Wise, Men, Liberty

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 1

Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

Summer, Sweet, Flower

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

Spring, Book, Men

John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

Love, Life, Boyfriend

Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.76

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

Soul, Singing, Elysium

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.146

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Ears, Hearing

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 120

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

Summer, Dream, Children

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

Work, Men, Mind

1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.618-20.

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

Light, Earth, Return

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.283

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