John Milton Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Execute their airy purposes.

  John Milton

  Purpose, Execution, Airy

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.423-31.

• For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

  John Milton

  Sex, Essence, Enmity

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

• The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

  John Milton

  Hair, Locks, Purpose

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