John Milton Quotes on History
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Areopagitica (1644)
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Paradise Lost (1667, 1674)
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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
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Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.
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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.
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That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.
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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.
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Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold.