Milton, John

Cultural  

1. A seventeenth-century English poet. His greatest work is the epic Paradise Lost, which he dictated after he went blind. With Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare, Milton is considered one of the greatest of all English poets. A famous phrase from Milton's works is his statement of purpose in Paradise Lost: “to justify the ways of God to men.” Also well known is the last line of his poem “On His Blindness”: “They also serve who only stand and wait.”

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Example Sentences

The wisdom of John Milton, John Locke and John Stuart Mill—not to mention that of Americans like George Mason and Justice Louis Brandeis—is as true today as it was in their times.

From Time • Jun. 3, 2016

No one claimed that the proposals marked an end to 300 years of press history – that John Milton, John Wilkes, John Stuart Mill and George Orwell were spinning in their respective graves.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2013

He is 42-year-old Milton John Cross, a huge, humble, bespectacled, music-charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such men as John Milton, John Locke, John Bunyan, and Shakespeare turned the thinking world toward better things in government and life.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

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From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)