John Milton

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Gender
Male
Education
Christ's College· Cambridge·Jesus College· Cambridge·St Paul's School· London
Place of birth
Cheapside
Birth date
20 April 1807
Member of
Democratic Party
Nationality
British (modern)

  • Children: Anne (29 July 1646), Mary (25 October 1648), John (16 March 1651 - June 1652), Deborah (2 May 1652) by Mary Powell; Katherine (19 October 1657 - 17 March 1658) by Katherine Woodcock.
  • He was fully blind before the publication of "Paradise Lost.
  • His grandfather was a composer who contributed to a collection of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.
  • One month after he married Mary Powell, she visited her family and didnt return until 1645. In 1646, her family, having been ejected from Oxford as Royalist (those who supported King Charles I in the Civil War), moved in with Milton (who supported Oliver Cromwell).
  • Secretary for Foreign Tongues and official propagandist for the Commonwealth, Milton privately broke with Cromwell when he declared himself Lord Protector. He would have been executed after his arrest in October 1659 were it not for several influential people speaking on his behalf, including poet Andrew Marvell, his first assistant.
  • The John Milton Society for the Blind was founded in 1928 by Helen Keller to develop an interdenominational ministry that would bring spiritual guidance and religious literature to deaf and blind persons.
  • His father was a composer who contributed to a collection of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.
  • Author of "Paradise Lost", considered the greatest epic poem in the English language.

  • Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall.
  • The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. .
  • Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
  • He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.
  • Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!,The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
  • And of the sixth day yet remainedThere wanted yet the master work, the endOf all yet done: a creature who not prone And brute as other creatures but enduedWith sanctity of reason might erect His stature and, upright with front serene,Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thenceMagnanimous to correspond with Heaven, But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart and voice and eyesDirected in devotion to adore And worship God supreme who made him chiefOf all His works.
  • I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
  • Yet some there be that by due steps aspireTo lay their just hands on that golden keyThat opes the palace of Eternity. To such my errand is,Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear,Consult. . .
  • Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
  • And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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