John Milton Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• What hath night to do with sleep?

  John Milton

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

  'Comus' (1637) l. 122

• Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Silence, Midnight

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.157

• Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Silence, Pace

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.373

• And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

  John Milton

  Wisdom, Sleep, Thinking

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.261

• Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

  John Milton

  Strong, Sleep, Eye

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

• His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Light, Digestion

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

• The timely dew of sleep.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Dew, Timely

  John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

• Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Light, Earth

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

• The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

  John Milton

  Fall, Sleep, Dew

  John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.263

• Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Eye, Water

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

• How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  John Milton

  Death, Mother, Sleep

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

• A death-like sleep,
  A gentle wafting to immortal life.

  John Milton

  Death, Sleep, Immortal Life

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.446

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