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
son antichrist
Antichrist is Mammon's son.
lonely stars lying
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
light darkness horror
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
blood ink printing
Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
christmas mother kings
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
morning time children
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
darkness innocence lost
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
love chocolate eating
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
mother art eye
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
darkness weakness martyr
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
education noble green
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
perfection parent soul
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
dream drinking alcohol
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
ignorance knowledge envy
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!