Quote

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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
Built
Darkness
Dark
Perfidious
Curses
Eclipse
Bark
Fatal
Curse

More quotes by John Milton

Image
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.
John Milton
Image
Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
John Milton
Image
So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.
John Milton
Image
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton
Image
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
John Milton
Image
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
John Milton
Image
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
John Milton
Image
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
John Milton
Image
First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.
John Milton
Image
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
John Milton
Image
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
John Milton
Image
Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.
John Milton
Image
At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.
John Milton
Image
That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
John Milton
Image
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
John Milton
Image
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
John Milton
Image
Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
John Milton
Image
The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.
John Milton
Image
Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
John Milton
Image
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
John Milton