John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.
moving misery miserable
But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
son paradise able
But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!
death war unconquerable-will
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
able bears blind
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
suffering weakness miserable
To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
enduring incapable miserable
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
almost destroys eye good image man reasonable
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: 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