John Milton Quotes about Age

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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

John Milton

Running, Time, Age

'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 14

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

John Milton

Deserving It, Missing, Age

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

John Milton

Mother, Age, Lap

1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

John Milton

Dog, Owl, Age

'Sonnet' 12 'I did but prompt the age' (1673)

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.

John Milton

Poetry, Age, Ornaments

"Paradise Lost". The Verse, 1668.