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
almost destroys eye good image man reasonable
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
bright eyes judge rain store whose
Store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and judge the prize.
bee doth eye flowery hide work
Hide me from day's garish eye / While the bee with honied thigh / That at her flowery work doth sing.
eye people blindness
They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
mother art eye
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
lonely loneliness eye
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
love romantic eye
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
eye squares trials
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.
eye sky soul
And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
love sorry eye
It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?
time eye arms
With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.
rain eye judging
Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.
strong sleep eye
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
book eye men
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.