37 Metaphors for milton

Addison, himself, has been so unsuccessful in enumerating the words with which Milton has enriched our language, as, perhaps, not to have named one of which Milton was the author; and Bentley has yet more unhappily praised him as the introducer of those elisions into English poetry, which had been used from the first essays of versification among us, and which Milton was, indeed, the last that practised.

With the partial exception of Tasso and Camoens, all epic poetry before Milton is some symbolism of man's sense of his own will.

His Stature reached the Sky, and on his Crest Sat horror plum'd; I must here take [notice, ] that Milton is every where full of Hints and sometimes literal Translations, taken from the greatest of the Greek and Latin Poets.

Of Milton himself, he writes:'Whatever be the advantages of rhyme, I cannot prevail on myself to wish that Milton had been a rhymer; for I cannot wish his work to be other than it is; yet, like other heroes, he is to be admired rather than imitated.'

And in this case Milton is plainly the climax.

However, I am chiefly pleased with the improvement, as it implies that Milton was an amateur.

About 1658, when Milton was a widower, living alone with his three daughters, he began, in total blindness, to dictate his Paradise Lost, sometimes relying on them but more often on any kind friend who might assist him.

Mrs. Kennicot related, in his presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written Paradise Lost should write such poor Sonnets:' Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Milton was the third epic poet.'

Johnson knew that Milton was a republican: he says, "an acrimonious and surly republican, for which it is not known that he gave any better reason than, that a popular government was the most frugal; for the trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."

Johnson said 'Milton was a Phidias, &c.' Ante, p. 99, note 1.

Milton's was an heroic age, and its song must be lyric rather than dramatic; its singer must be in the fight and of it.

Of those principles, then struggling for their infant existence, Milton was the most devoted and eloquent literary champion.

" Milton was the portrait, already described, which had been left to Lamb.

The student's Milton; being the complete poems of John Milton with the greater part of his prose works, now printed in one volume, together with new translations into English of his Italian, Latin, and Greek poems.

In the next poem, "Lycidas," a pastoral elegy written in 1637, and the last of his Horton poems, Milton is no longer the inheritor of the old age, but the prophet of a new.

John Milton, born in 1608, was twenty-four years of age when George Herbert died.

Milton was never so great a regicide as when he smote King David.

Hard by is the Isle o' Milton, an' beyond are manyit would take thee years to visit them.

" Milton was one day asked by a friend whether he would instruct his daughters in the different languages.

Milton was the child of the Renaissance, inheritor of all its culture, and the most profoundly educated man of his age.

You may be as humble as you like, and John will fit you: as illustrious as you like, and John will blaze as splendid as your deeds, linking you with that great order of nobility of which John Milton, John Hampden, and John Bright are types.

" Milton must have been a passionate lover of flowers and flower-gardens or he could never have exhibited the exquisite taste and genial feeling which characterize all the floral allusions and descriptions with which so much of his poetry is embellished.

Compared with Herbert, Milton was a man in health.

In 1629, while Milton was a student at Cambridge, and only twenty-one years old, he wrote a fine lyrical poem, entitled On the Morning of Christ's Nativity.

37 Metaphors for  milton