John Milton Quotes about Music

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

John Milton

Music, Sweet, Lying

'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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

John Milton

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

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

John Milton

Music, Sweet, Bird

John Milton (1761). “L'allegro, Ed Il Penseroso: Set to Musick by Mr. Handel”, p.7

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

John Milton

Music, Ears, Tone

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

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

John Milton

Music, Sweet, Philosophy

John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67