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Letter "J" » John Milton Quotes
«Without the meed of some melodious tear.»
«And looks commercing with the skies, / Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.»
«Care / Sat on his faded cheek.»
«Rhetoric . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
precedent, rhetoric, sensuous, subsequent
«The unsunned heaps / Of miser's treasure.»
«Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.»
«Wisest men / Have erred, and by bad women been deceived; / And shall again, pretend they ne'er so wise.»
«Nor war, or battle's sound / Was heard the world around.»
«God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.»
«Since first this subject for heroic song / Pleased me long choosing, and beginning late.»
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