Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
John Milton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Meet
Lap
Dying
Mortality
Rest
Sentence
Sleep
Sensible
Death
Sentences
Mother
Lays
Earth
Secure
Gladly
Would
Glad
Gladness
More quotes by John Milton
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
John Milton
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
John Milton
Courage never to submit of yield.
John Milton
None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
John Milton
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
John Milton
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
John Milton
Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles for smiles from reason flow.
John Milton
The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
John Milton
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!
John Milton
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.
John Milton
Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round
John Milton
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
John Milton
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
John Milton
It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
John Milton
So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.
John Milton
Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
John Milton
Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
John Milton
For so I created them free and free they must remain.
John Milton
Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate
John Milton