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
belated dreams fairy forest midnight moon overhead peasant side whose
Fairy elves, / Whose midnight revels, by a forest side / Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, / Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon / Sits arbitress.
art heavy thou
But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, / Now thou art gone, and never must return!
brought embrace
But O as to embrace me she inclined, / I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.
absolutely active books bred contain dead intellect life living preserve purest soul whose
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them
absolutely active books bred certain contain dead intellect life living purest soul whose
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
dancing youth
To many a youth and many a maid, / Dancing in the chequered shade.
english-poet heal otherwise
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
heaven hell mind
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
reign
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
truth
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
bad men pretend shall wisest women
Wisest men / Have erred, and by bad women been deceived; / And shall again, pretend they ne'er so wise.
felt
If they felt someone was out of line, they would tell them,
base built firmament
If this fail, / The pillared firmament is rottenness, / And earth's base built on stubble.