Quotes about Milton
O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?
- John Milton
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
- George Bernard Shaw
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
- George Bernard Shaw
Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought the better fight, who single hast maintained against revolted multitudes the cause of truth, in word mightier than they in arms.
- John Milton
His words… like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
- John Milton
Into a limbo large and broad, since calledThe Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.
- John Milton
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
- John Milton
So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
- John Milton
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
- John Milton
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.
- William Wordsworth
Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or stain behind. Milton.
- Samuel Johnson