Milton quotes

Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.59^60.

Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built onTrent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.62.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry- stones.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark to Hannah More,13  Jun, who hadcommentedwith surprise that Milton's sonnets failed to compare with his epic Paradise Lost. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Philosophie! dont la lumie'  re, comme celle des enfers de Milton, ne sert qu'a'   rendre les te  ne'  bres visibles. Philosophy! In whose light, like that in Milton's hell, only serves to make the shadows visible.

- Ge  rard de pseudonym of  Ge  rard Labrunie Nerval
  Fragments,'Paradoxe et ve  rite ' .

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

-Tennyson
  'Milton: Alcaics', l.1^4.

  Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

-William Wordsworth
  'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published1807).