John Milton Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

  John Milton

  Time, Morning, Children

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

• Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

  John Milton

  Time, Elements, May

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 274

• Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

  John Milton

  Death, Time, Stars

• Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

  John Milton

  Running, Time, Age

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 14

• Time, though in Eternity, applied
  To motion, measures all things durable
  By present, past, and future.

  John Milton

  Time, Past, Eternity

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.46

• With thee conversing I forget all time.

  John Milton

  Time, Forget, Thee

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 639 (1667)

• Day and night,
  Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
  Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

  John Milton

  Time, Night, Fire

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.508, BookCaps Study Guides

• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

  John Milton

  Time, Years, Wings

  'Sonnet' 7 'How soon hath time' (1645)

• But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

  John Milton

  Song, Time, Blessed

  1629 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 27.

• Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

  John Milton

  Time, Fire, Elements

  1665 Mammon. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.274-7.

• God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

  John Milton

  Time, Law, Forget

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 637

• That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

  John Milton

  Time, Revenge, Hate

  1665 Satan gazes upon Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.463-6.

• Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

  John Milton

  Time, Power, Night

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

• With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.

  John Milton

  Time, Eye, Arms

• A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

  John Milton

  Time, Army, Ice

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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