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
free themselves till
I form'd them free, and free they must remain, Till they enthral themselves
above according argue english-poet freely liberty
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
freely love serve stand
Freely we serve / Because we freely love, as in our will / To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
freedom good hath heartily license love none rest scope tyrants
None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under tyrants
ear free quite won
Such strains as would have won the ear / Of Pluto, to have quite set free / His half-regained Eurydice.
spiritual freedom men
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
freedom giving liberty
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
freedom law anarchy
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
freedom men good-man
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
freedom fall sufficient
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
freedom men rome
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.
freedom
For so I created them free and free they must remain.
passion judgement free-will
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.