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
love obey whom
Be strong, live happy, and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey
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.
divinely fit love
She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods.
alone climb feeble follow higher itself love stoop teach virtue
Mortals, that would follow me, / Love virtue, she alone is free, / She can teach ye how to climb / Higher than the sphery chime; / Or if virtue feeble were, / Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
hath love offense regain strange though
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possess'd
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
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
love nor permit short thou thy
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n
dear deaths love
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
dignity gesture grace love
Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love
imitate knowledge learning love
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
loss lovely devil
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
love two eden
These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
love chocolate eating
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.