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
both creatures earth millions sleep spiritual wake walk
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep
both creatures earth millions sleep spiritual walk
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
spiritual freedom men
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
book reading spirit
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
spirit function weary
So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.
heaven despair spirit
The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
sex enmity spirit
Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
spurs spirit fame
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
heart men spirit
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
spiritual memories law
If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!
spirit easy intercourse
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.
rude winter
It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
among faithful
The seraph Abdiel, faithful found, / Among the faithless, faithful only he.