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.
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Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, / That all was lost.
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Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars / White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.
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Endued / With sanctity of reason.
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Everyone knows that you cannot talk about people by name,
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Evil news rides post, while good news bates
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Execute their aery purposes.
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Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
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Fairy elves, / Whose midnight revels, by a forest side / Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, / Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon / Sits arbitress.
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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days
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Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
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Farewell happy fields / Where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail!
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Fear and dull disposition, luke warmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of Moderation.
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