Quote

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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
Tombs
Kings
Dies
Lying
Wish
Would
Pomp
Dost
Tomb

More quotes by John Milton

Image
Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope but still bear up and steer Right onward.
John Milton
Image
The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
John Milton
Image
A short retirement urges a sweet return.
John Milton
Image
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.
John Milton
Image
Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
John Milton
Image
He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.
John Milton
Image
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
John Milton
Image
But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
John Milton
Image
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
John Milton
Image
Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
John Milton
Image
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
John Milton
Image
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.
John Milton
Image
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
John Milton
Image
Tis chastity, my brother, chastity She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
John Milton
Image
Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.
John Milton
Image
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
John Milton
Image
Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
John Milton
Image
Our reason is our law.
John Milton
Image
There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
John Milton
Image
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
John Milton