John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
ambition deeds doers
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
perseverance giving silence
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
too-much taught drink
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
writing hands knowing
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
spiritual freedom men
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
weakness wickedness
Wickedness is weakness.
men wickedness may
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
work men mind
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
air voice singing
How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
slave mills gaza
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
peers satan pandemonium
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
dark night waste
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
evil ignorant vision
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
spring twilight grateful
From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.