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• Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 267...
• Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 76...
• The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 220...
• Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 327...
• Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 274...
• Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, Meroe, Nilotic isle.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 70...
• Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 426...
• Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book ii, Line 228...
• Elephants endors'd with towers.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iii, Line 329...