John Milton Quotes
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 .
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Edited by Gordon Teskey, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005, p. 215.
6th Baron Byron. This is one of the more eloquent descriptions of the long historical memory which keeps alive the thirst for vengeance. The Irish revolutionist, James Connolly, 1868-1916, quoted these lines in one of his great polemics, Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, 1897
John Milton was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious shifts and political instability, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.