Quotes About Milton

We must be free or die, who speak the tongueThat Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals holdWhich Milton held.

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.

MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.

Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.

England, An Ode All our past acclaims our future: Shakespeare's voice and Nelson's hand, Milton's faith and Wordsworth's trust in this our chosen and chainless land, Bear us witness: come the world against her, England yet shall stand.

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

My grandmother Dora taught me how to cook. She's from a small town in West Virginia called Milton. I would pull a stool up to her kitchen counter after school. My love of food started there.

Until the twentieth century, no one had any idea that Homer might have existed in this strange and immaterial form. It was the assumption that Homer, like other poets, wrote his poetry. Virgil, Dante and Milton were merely following in his footsteps. The only debate was over why these written poems were in places written so badly. Why had he not written them better?

grown steadily throughout the South ever since. The Mt. Jefferson branch was the twenty-third to open, and Milton felt lucky to be part of such a flourishing company.

Tenho por irmãos os criadores da consciência do mundo - o dramaturgo atabalhoado W. Shakespeare, o mestre-escola J. Milton, o vadio Dante Alighieri, e, até, se a citação se permite, aquele Jesus Cristo que não foi nada no mundo... O que escrevo hoje é muito melhor do que o poderiam escrever os melhores.

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

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

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets.

Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own great merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.

AFER  (A'FER)   n.s.[Lat.]The southwest wind. With adverse blast upturns them from the south,Notus, and Afer, black with thund'rous clouds,From Sierra Liona.Milton'sParadise Lost,b. x.

GURGE  (GURGE)   n.s.[gurges, Latin.]Whirlpool; gulf. Marching from Eden he shall findThe plain, wherein a black bituminous gurgeBoils out from under ground.Milton'sParadise Lost,b. xii.

Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or stain behind. Milton.

He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.

He [John Milton] was so fair that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.