Quotes About John Milton

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,.....

For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.

Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:—

If therefore the Father is the God of Christ and the same one is our God, and if there is no God but one, there can be no God beside the Father.

So spake the Son, and into terrour chang'd   His count'nance too severe to be beheld   And full of wrauth bent on his Enemies.

Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning; And of their vain contest' appeared no end. (The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)