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
approach face human returns seasons sight sweet thus year
Thus with the year / Seasons return, but not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.
angel golden hovering thou welcome
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, / Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
fresh last tomorrow
At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue; / Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
celestial proper smile smiles
A smile that glowed / Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
awful devil felt goodness
Abashed the devil stood, / And felt how awful goodness is.
awful devil felt goodness lovely saw shape virtue
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely
dark further guiding hand lend onward thy
A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little further on.
above christmas eternal great happy maid mother redemption son
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.
happy month
This is the month and this the happy morn.
madness
Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.
haughty nation proud
An old, and haughty nation proud in arms.
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A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him.
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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye
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As an engineer, I feel it's at a point we should be concerned, ... We're taking risks already. I don't like relying on nature not to do something.