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John Milton, born on December 9, 1608, in London, and died on November 8, 1674, was a renowned English poet and scholar. He is best known for his epic poem 'Paradise Lost,' which has had a profound impact on world literature.

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Famous John Milton Quotes

“These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”

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Book:I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

Source: I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

“Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.”

Eye Trials Proportion Squares Providence

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,

“Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.”

Eye Tree Fruit Appetite Hung Tempting Pluck

Book:The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti

Source: The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti

“Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.”

Eye Water Sleep Bees Thighs Murmuring

Author:John Milton

“Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.”

Eye Pleasure Mines Mountain Rivers Rounds Clouds Caught Wide Landscape Breasts Shallow Grey Flocks Lawns Brooks Barren Meadows Daisies Nibbling

Author:John Milton

“And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.”

May Light Eye Heaven Religious Clear Mines Window Ears Blow Ecstasy Organs Sweetness Casting Choir Anthem

Author:John Milton

“Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.”

Ends Eye Eternity Abyss

Book:Milton's Paradise Lost

Source: Milton's Paradise Lost

“What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!”

Heart God Eye Seeing Deceiving Omniscient Scapes

Book:Paradise lost

Source: Paradise lost

“The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?”

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Book:The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

“These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.”

Eye Evil Despair Forgiveness Deserve Ears Finals His Eyes Pardon Gracious

Book:The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings

Source: The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings

“Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.”

Love Eye Heaven Steps Grace Romantic Dignity And Love Grandmother Gestures Romantic Love Her Eyes Headstone Mom And Daughter Dignity And Love

Book:Paradise lost

Source: Paradise lost

“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

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Book:The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

Source: The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

“And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”

Looks Soul Eye Sky Sitting

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,

“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”

People Eye Blindness Reproach

Book:Prose works

Source: Prose works

“Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.”

Art Eye Mother Motherhood Greece Eloquence Athens Oratory Athenians Greece And Rome

Author:John Milton

“And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.”

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Author:John Milton

“For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.”

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Author:John Milton

“Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.”

Eye Lying Beauty Tree Rivers Wide Deceit Towers Shallow Bosoms Brooks Meadows Daisies

Author:John Milton

“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.”

Eye Notes Liquid

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,

“Hide me from day's garish eye.”

Eye Murmuring

Author:John Milton

“It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?”