Quote

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

John Milton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Court
Wonder
Beauty
Feasts
High
Workmanship
Nature
Solemnity
May
Brag
Must
Courts
Shown

More quotes by John Milton

Image
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.
John Milton
Image
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
John Milton
Image
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
Image
Good luck befriend thee, Son for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
John Milton
Image
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
John Milton
Image
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
John Milton
Image
How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
John Milton
Image
But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.
John Milton
Image
Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
John Milton
Image
Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
John Milton
Image
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
John Milton
Image
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
John Milton
Image
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
John Milton
Image
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
John Milton
Image
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
John Milton
Image
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.
John Milton
Image
Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.
John Milton
Image
And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
John Milton
Image
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons the fairest of her daughters Eve.
John Milton
Image
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.
John Milton