353 ordspråk av John Milton
John Milton
John Milton föddes den
December 9th 1608 och dog den 8 November
1674 - Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
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A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd
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A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little further on.
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A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
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A mind not to be changed by place or time, the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
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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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A short retirement urges a sweet return
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A short retirement urges a sweet return
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A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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A smile that glowed / Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely
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