John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He is known for the works: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Lycidas, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. Go to Quote / Comment
Into thir inmost bower Handed they went; and eas'd the putting off... Go to Quote / Comment
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee? Go to Quote / Comment
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Go to Quote / Comment
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven Go to Quote / Comment