Milton Sentence Examples

The country is rolling and hilly, the Blue Hills (with the exception of a part included in Braintree in 1712 and now in Quincy) lying in Milton.

He seems to have been interested in the poetic diction of Milton and Thomson, and a few of his verses are remotely inspired by Shakespeare and Gray.

The conception bears a remarkable resemblance to that of Paradise Lost; and it is almost certain that Milton, whose sympathies with the Italian Reformation were so strong, must have been acquainted with it, and with some of his later works.

Milton, originally a part of Dorchester, was first settled in 1640, and was called Uncataquissett.

In 1712 the Blue Hill lands were divided between Milton and Braintree, and in 1868 part of Milton was included in the new township of Hyde Park.

He is the Magyarizer of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, Othello, Macbeth, Henry VIII., Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet and Tempest, as also of some of the best pieces of Burns, Moore, Byron, Shelley, Milton, Beranger, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Goethe and others.

The principal merit of this author's drama Milton (1876) consists in its brilliance of language.

It is the burial-place of Fox the martyrologist and Milton the poet, and contains some fine wood-carving by Grinling Gibbons.

He denounced Milton's Divorce i at Pleasure, was answered in the Colasterion, and contemptuously referred to in the sonnet "On the Forcers of Conscience."

In 1813 he published at Bourges a translation of Milton's Paradise Lost.

The colouring is that of classic mythology, but the spiritual element is as individual as that of any classical poem by Milton, Gray, Keats or Tennyson.

Among later historians who were deceived by the Historia Britonum it is only needful to mention Higdon, Hardyng, Fabyan (1512), Holinshed (1580) and John Milton.

He died on the 12th of January 1781, and was buried at Milton, Berkshire.

The Blue Hills in Milton are the nearest elevations to the coast, and are conspicuous to navigators approaching Boston.

Milton and Marvell were his secretaries.

Great writers like Milton and Harrington supported Cromwell's view of the duty of a statesman; the poet Waller acclaimed Cromwell as "the world's protector"; but the London tradesmen complained of the loss of their Spanish trade and regarded Holland and not Spain as the national enemy.

He had one daughter, Anne, who married John Damer, son of Lord Milton, and who inherited a life interest in Strawberry Hill under the will of Horace Walpole.

The second Lady Carbery was the original of the "Lady" in Milton's Comus.

With all the majesty and stately elaboration and musical rhythm of Milton's finest prose, Taylor's styleis relieved and brightened by an astonishing variety of felicitous illustrations, ranging from the most homely and terse to the most dignified and elaborate.

To dwell upon such literary infamies would be below the dignity of the historian, were it not that these habits of the early Italian humanists imposed a fashion upon Europe which extended to the later age of Scaliger's contentions with Scioppius and Milton's with Salmasius.

Doubt was thrown on Charles's authorship in Milton's Eikonoklastes (1649), which was followed almost immediately by a royalist answer, The Princely Pelican.

This idea finds its most magnificent literary expression in Milton's Paradise Lost.

It consists principally of one long street (the Roman Watling Street) and the northern suburb of Milton, a separate urban district (pop. 7086), celebrated for its oysters, the fishery of which used to employ a large number of the inhabitants.

An earthwork known as Castle Rough, in the marshes below Milton, was probably the work of Hasten the Dane in 892, and Bayford Castle, a mile distant, occupies the site of one said to have been built in opposition by King Alfred, Tong Castle is about 2 m.

These deal with the casuists of the Counter - Reformation in the spirit of Milton, laying especial stress on the artificiality of their methods and the laxity of their results.

It is noteworthy that the poet, like Milton, sees in Satan no mere personification of evil, but the fallen archangel, whose awful guilt could not obliterate all traces of his native majesty.

In a fragment of autobiography printed in the Athenaeum (12th of January 1850) he says that he was entirely self-taught, and attributes his poetic development to long country walks undertaken in search of wild flowers, and to a collection of books, including the works of Young, Barrow, Shenstone and Milton, bequeathed to his father by a poor clergyman.

At this time Tennyson was brooding much upon the ancient world, and reading little but Milton, Homer and Virgil.

Great numbers of European and American authors were rendered into JapaneseCalderon, Lytton, Disraeli, Byron, Shakespeare, Milton, Turgueniev, Carlyle, Daudet, Emerson, Hugo, Heine, De Quincey, Dickens, Krner, Goethetheir name is legion and their influence upon Japanese literature is conspicuous.

There is even a little treatise from the hand of Milton, published two years before his death, called Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio ad Petri Rami Methodum concinnata.

Earlier in the work, however, we have the adventures of Brutus; of his follower Corineus, the vanquisher of the Cornish giant Goemagol (Gogmagog); of Locrinus and his daughter Sabre (immortalized in Milton's Comus); of Bladud the builder of Bath; of Lear and his daughters; of the three pairs of brothers, Ferrex and Porrex, Brennius and Belinus, Elidure and Peridure.

The pen of Milton was employed for this purpose, and his famous sonnet is but the condensation of his state papers.

They were, as Milton said, " faithful and freeborn Englishmen and good Christians constrained to forsake their dearest home, their friends, and kindred, whom nothing but the wide ocean and the savage deserts of America could hide and shelter from the fury of the bishops."

The guardian angels of the nations in Daniel probably represent the gods of the heathen, and we have there the first step of the process by which these gods became evil angels, an idea expanded by Milton in Paradise Lost.

The principal beds are near Whitstable, Faversham, Milton, Queenborough and Rochester, some being worked by ancient companies or gilds of fishermen.

The municipal boroughs are Bromley (pop. 27,354), Canterbury, a city and county borough (24,889), Chatham (37,057), Deal (10,581), Dover (4 1, 794), Faversham (11,290), Folkestone (30,650), Gillingham (42,530), Gravesend (27,196), Hythe (5557), Lydd (2675), Maidstone (33,516), Margate (23,118), New Romney (1328), Queenborough (1544), Ramsgate (2 7,733), Rochester, a city (30,590), Sandwich (3170), Tenterden (324.3), Tunbridge Wells (33,373) The urban districts are Ashford (12,808), Beckenham (26,331), Bexley (12,918), Broadstairs and St Peter's (6466), Cheriton (7091), Chislehurst (7429), Dartford (18,644), Erith (25,296), Foots Cray (5817), Herne Bay (6726), Milton (7086), Northfleet (12,906), Penge (22,465), Sandgate (2294), Sevenoaks (8106), Sheerness (18,179), Sittingbourne (8943), Southborough (6977), Tonbridge (12,736), Walmer (5614), Whitstable (7086), Wrotham (3571).

The Domesday Survey, besides testifying to the agricultural activity of the country, mentions over one hundred salt-works and numerous valuable fisheries, vines at Chart Sutton and Leeds, and cheese at Milton.

He could not, like Marlowe's Mephistophilis or Milton's Satan, regretfully paint the glories of the height from which he has been hurled; for he denies the distinction between high and low, since "everything that comes into being deserves to be destroyed."

In the autumn he reached London, and in Thomas More's house in Bucklersbury wrote the witty satire which Milton found "in every one's hands" at Cambridge in 1628, and which is read to this day.

He is on the side of reform in education; Milton, Petty.

Milton, in his Tractate on Education (1644), advances further on Bacon's lines, protesting against the length of time spent on instruction in language, denouncing merely verbal knowledge, and recommending the study of a large number of classical authors for the sake of their subject appointed to consider the studies and examinations of the university, their report of November 1904 on the Previous Examination was fully discussed, and the speeches published in the Reporter for December 17, 1904.

The Milton of Bentley, England's greatest critic, is a by-word.

His biography of Isaac Casaubon appeared in .1875; Milton, in Macmillan's English Men of Letters series in 1879.

From parts of the original town Farmington and Milton were erected in 1798 and 1802 respectively, and in 1846 part of Rochester was annexed to Barrington.

The administration of the city became famous after 1897 when Samuel Milton Jones (1846-1904), a manufacturer of oil machinery, was elected mayor by the Republican party; he was re-elected on a non-partisan ticket in 1899, 1901 and 1903, and introduced business methods into the city government.

Cowles in 1885, which was worked both at Lockport, New York, U.S.A., and at Milton, Staffordshire.

In 1895 the British Aluminium Company was founded to mine bauxite and manufacture alumina in Ireland, to prepare the necessary electrodes at Greenock, to reduce the aluminium by the aid of water-power at the Falls of Foyers, and to refine and work up the metal into marketable shapes at the old Milton factory of the Cowles Syndicate, remodelled to suit modern requirements.

There are a grammar-school (founded in 1521 at Milton Abbas, transferred to Blandford in 1 775), a Blue Coat school (1729), and other educational charities.

The chief suburbs are Kangaroo Point, Fortitude Valley, New Farm, Red Hill, Paddington, Milton, Toowong, Breakfast Creek, Bulimba, Woolloongabba, Highgate Hill and Indooroopilly.

The very worst is, beyond all doubt, that of Gray; the most controverted that of Milton.

The great Latin poets were imitators indeed, but mere imitators they were no more than Petrarch or Milton.

The Danes, finding their position on the continent becoming more and more precarious, crossed to England in two divisions, amounting in the aggregate to 330 sail, and entrenched themselves, the larger body at Appledore and the lesser under Haesten at Milton in Kent.

In 1634 Milton's Comus was performed in the castle under its original style of "A Masque presented at Ludlow Castle," before the earl of Bridgewater, Lord President of Wales.

Both his collegiate and editorial duties stimulated his critical powers, and the publication in the two magazines, followed by republication in book form, of a series of studies of great authors, gave him an important place as a critic. Shakespeare, Dryden, Lessing, Rousseau, Dante, Spenser, Wordsworth, Milton, Keats, Carlyle, Thoreau, Swinburne, Chaucer, Emerson, Pope, Gray - these are the principal subjects of his prose, and the range of topics indicates the catholicity of his taste.

The story (alluded to by Milton, Rabelais, Mrs Browning and Schiller) of the pilot Thamus, who, sailing near the island of Paxi in the time of Tiberius, was commanded by a mighty voice to proclaim that "Pan is dead," is found in Plutarch (De orac. defectu, 17).

In 1699 he published two treatises, - one entitled Three Practical Essays on Baptism, Confirmation and Repentance, and the other, Some Reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, and the Canon of the New Testament.

His French thesis for the doctorate of letters, Etude sur les pamphlets politiques et religieux de Milton (1848), showed that he was attracted towards foreign history, a study for which he soon qualified himself by mastering the Germanic and Scandinavian languages.

Rapidity or ease of movement, plainness of expression and plainness of thought, these are not the distinguishing qualities of the great epic poets - Virgil, Dante, Milton.

Like the French epics, Homeric poetry is indigenous, and is distinguished by this fact, and by the ease of movement and the simplicity which result from it, from poets such as Virgil, Dante and Milton.

Dante and Milton are still more faithful exponents of the religion and politics of their time.

France had suddenly grown to her full stature; like the contemporary England of John Milton, she was become a " noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep."

Of the former kind were Homer, Lucretius, Burns, Scott; of the latter were Euripides, Dryden, Milton.

Milton, the greatest humanistic poet of the English race, lent his pen and moral energies during the best years of his life to securing that principle on which modern political systems at present rest.

Certain similarities between passages in Paradise Lost and parts of the translation from Old Saxon interpolated in the Old English Genesis have given occasion to the suggestion that some scholar may have talked to Milton about the poetry published by Junius in 1655, and that the poet may thus have gained some hints which he used in his great work.

In art they are usually represented as richly dressed Asiatics, picturesquely grouped with their griffin foes; the subject is often described by poets from Aeschylus to Milton.

The peculiar greatness and value of both Juvenal and Tacitus is that they did not shut their eyes to the evil through which they had lived, but deeply resented it - the one with a vehement and burning passion, like the " saeva indignatio " of Swift, the other with perhaps even deeper but more restrained emotions of mingled scorn and sorrow, like the scorn and sorrow of Milton when " fallen on evil days and evil tongues."

Of his other compositions, the most individual are those in which, deeply impressed by the problems of his day, he has sought to reconcile science and religion, especially the fine dialogue between Milton and Galileo, where the former, impressed by Galileo's predictions of the intellectual consequences of scientific progress, resolves "to justify the ways of God to man."

Milton has an attractive public park, is in an agricultural region, and has various manufactures.

Its fabled existence has been utilized by the poets, such as Milton, Pope and Tennyson.

Toland's next work of importance was his Life of Milton (1698), in which a reference to "the numerous supposititious pieces under the name of Christ and His apostles and other great persons," provoked the charge that he had called in question the genuineness of the New Testament writings.

Toland replied in his Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life (1699), to which he added a remarkable list of what are now called apocryphal New Testament writings.

In the Comus, sive Phagesiposia Cimmeria; Somnium (1608, and at Oxford, 1634), a moral allegory by a Dutch author, Hendrik van der Putten, or Erycius Puteanus, the conception is more nearly akin to Milton's, and Comus is a being whose enticements are more disguised and delicate than those of Jonson's deity.

But Milton's Comus is a creation of his own.

In English literature Milton seems to have been more familiar to him than Shakespeare, and Spenser was perhaps more of a favourite with him than either.

We do not hear the organ tones of Milton, for faith and freedom had other notes in the 18th century.

Fox, who led the party, and Sheridan, who led Fox, were the intimates of the prince of Wales; and Burke would have been as much out of place in that circle of gamblers and profligates as Milton would have been out of place in the court of the Restoration.

Goodwin, John Goodwin (an early Arminian); for learning, John Lightfoot; for genius, John Milton; for literary and devotional power, John Bunyanalways admirable except when he talks Puritan dogma.

Of later poets, down to more recent times, perhaps the best was Sigurd of Broadfirth, many of whose prettiest poems were composed in Greenland like those of Jon Biarnisson before him, c. 1750; John Thorlaksson's translation of Milton's great epic into Eddic verse is praiseworthy in intention, but, as may be imagined, falls far short of its aim.

It was in this condition that Milton found him when he visited him at Arcetri in 1638.

He was drawn to Cowper by the fact that both were contemplating an edition of " Milton," Cowper having received a commission to edit, writing notes and translating the Latin and Italian poems. The work was never completed.

Chaucer wrote a treatise on the astrolabe; Milton constantly refers to planetary influences; in Shakespeare's King Lear, Gloucester and Edmund represent respectively the old and the new faith.

In 1631 he was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge, about the time Milton was leaving it.

The ancient vicarage has associations with Milton through his tutor, Dr Young.

He was a fervent admirer of Milton.

For accountants london W1 there is no better than Milton Avis who are a specialist accountancy firm.

But it was in HMV in Milton Keynes in a proper CD case with insert and everything... no bootleg!

More than 17 million people nationally suffer with long term chronic illness - and that means about 5,000 in Milton Keynes.

John Milton's masque Comus was first presented at Ludlow Castle in 1634.

Professor Kasner is believed to have come up with the word googol at the suggestion of his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta.

We then continued the motion reeking havoc on the normally tranquil city of Milton Keynes.

The Funeral Company, Milton Keynes provides a range of services, from green funerals to horse-drawn hearses.

Earlier work established the potential for estimating spectral irradiance from multi-band data using a neural network technique (Milton et al., 2000 ).

On his final return to Austria in 1795, he took with him an English libretto based on Milton's " Paradise Lost " .

Milton Friedman in a flood to see any quotes.

Milton j away with people activities which might.

Milton solution as they do in Hospital where liner are rarely used.

Milton Lake As with all lakes, Milton continues to fish well producing mixed bags to 40/50lb and the odd bag to 80lb.

Milton batted first and things got off to a bad start, Milton losing both openers with just 7 runs on the board.

The work so far has centered around Milton Abbas and the surrounding parishes, with the overall aim to get people more active.

In the triumph of Royalist counter-revolution Milton saw the dangers of political passivity, of ideological sloth.

I Hamlet's mourning black seems to be a form of armor which Milton's poetic personae prefer to wear.

All the paintings shown were made during Milton's three month residency at Gasworks Studios.

A six month period as custody sergeant at Milton Keynes quickly followed after which he worked as a patrol sergeant at Milton Keynes.

For Milton's poetical reaction to the reception of his divorce pamphlets, see sonnets 11 and 12.

Lots of silver fish with the occasional tench and crucian, Milton has fished well all week producing bags from 10lb to 50lb.

It reports that the X15 Aylesbury to Milton Keynes service is to be double-decked using tridents including the two currently at High Wycombe.

Burial Stone of John Milton John Milton Nevertheless, Milton's use of blank verse was hugely influential for subsequent poets.

At this point, it changes its southbound direction to head westbound instead toward New Milton.

In Milton, on the 9th of September 1774, at the house of Daniel Vose, a meeting, adjourned from Dedham, passed the bold "Suffolk Resolves" (Milton then being included in Suffolk county), which declared that a sovereign who breaks his compact with his subjects forfeits their allegiance, that parliament's repressive measures were unconstitutional, that tax-collectors should not pay over money to the royal treasury, that the towns should choose militia officers from the patriot party, that they would obey the Continental Congress and that they favoured a Provincial Congress, and that they would seize crown officers as hostages for any political prisoners arrested by the governor; and recommended that all persons in the colony should abstain from lawlessness.

Hence even before the Westminster Assembly met in July 1643, Independency could reckon among its friends men of distinction in the state, like Cromwell, Sir Harry Vane, Lord Saye and Sele; while Milton powerfully pleaded the power of Truth to take care of herself on equal terms. In the Assembly; too, its champions were fit, if few.

His associates in Congress at once recognized his military ability, and although he was not a member of any of the committees of the Congress, he seems to have aided materially in securing the endorsement by Congress of the Suffolk county, Massachusetts, resolves (see Milton, Mass.) looking towards organized resistance.

All the paintings shown were made during Milton 's three month residency at Gasworks Studios.

There was no mutual resiling from the convention between PW and Milton Gate.

Maclean 's daughter Nan Milton has recalled that ' when the great day dawned, the most sanguine hopes were justified.

For Milton 's poetical reaction to the reception of his divorce pamphlets, see sonnets 11 and 12.

We have left the post-modern suburban utopia of Milton Keynes for the relative country tranquility of Buckingham town.

It reports that the X15 Aylesbury to Milton Keynes service is to be double-decked using Tridents including the two currently at High Wycombe.

It was not unconscionable to enforce the strict legal position between Milton Gate and PW which would be required to make the penalty payment.

Yes, the one millionth adoption took place in Milton, Florida.

Florsheim shoes were first designed and made by Milton Florsheim and his father in Chicago in 1892.

Gulliver's Theme Parks is a network of amusement parks in Warrington, Milton Keynes and Matlock Bath.

A popular game created by Milton Bradley and now sold under the Hasbro brand, Yahtzee is a dice game where players try to create one of the 13 possible scoring combinations.

Milton Bradley's Microvision wasn't that portable (about as long as your forearm and wide as your palm), but it was the first one to have games on cartridges.

In fact, it wasn't until 1931 when the Milton Bradley Company turned what was a simple two-player, paper-and-pen game into a popularized children's board game.

This is a fun twist on an excellent strategy game from Milton Bradley.

This is a really simple game Milton Bradley game that is great to play with young players.

It is a relatively new version of the original Operation game that was designed by Marvin Glass in 1965 and published by Milton Bradley.

Guess Who Extra is another classic game from Milton Bradley to enter into the computer age.

The game was picked up by Milton Bradley which renamed the game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy" and published it as a paper game in 1943.

Some of the games go as far back as 1939 as seen with Contackt by Milton Bradley.

There are plenty of games from big game companies like Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers that are made for adults but are also released in kid friendly versions.

Quizmo board games were published by Milton Bradley, a board game company that is now owned by Hasbro.

First published by Milton Bradley as The Checkered Game of Life in 1860, the well-known classic version of the Game of Life was developed in 1960 to celebrate Milton Bradley's centennial anniversary.

Throughout the years, Milton Bradley has released several updated editions of the board game making the necessary changes to keep the game realistic and current to the times reflecting real life trends, issues and situations.

The Game of Life, which is more commonly known as just "Life", was first sold in the year 1860 by Milton Bradley, which is now a division of Hasbro.

The game hit its biggest wave of popularity a century later when it was re-issued in 1960, again by Milton Bradley.

However, Von Wickler never patented the game and in 1931, the Milton Bradley Company patented and published the game under the name "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy".

The Milton Bradley Company released the now classic board game, Battleship, in 1967.

Ten years after the introduction of the Battleship board game, the Milton Bradley Company in conjunction with Excalibur Electronics published Electronic Battleship.

The year 1857 saw the debut of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, dressed in highly theatrical costume that was a representation of "The Demon Actors in Milton's Paradise Lost."

Hershey Chocolate owner, Milton Hershey, built Hershey Park as a built for his workers and their families to relax.

Anna Milton - Anna was a fallen angel that was hunted by demons and angels alike.

Milton Academy (a non-sectarian school) was founded in 1798, opened in 1805, and suspended in 1867; a new academy was opened in 1885.

Hutchinson Field, another public park, is a part of the estate of the last royal governor, Thomas Hutchinson; Governor Jonathan Belcher also lived in Milton for a time.

It owes its name either to its early paper and grist mills (Milton being abbreviated from Milltown) or to Milton Abbey, Dorset, whence members of the Tucker family came, it is supposed, to Milton about 1662.

Lovering is first mentioned as master in 1619, so that Taylor probably spent seven years at the school before he was entered at Gonville and Caius College as a sizar in 1626, 1 eighteen months after Milton had entered Christ's, and while George Herbert was public orator and Edmund Waller and Thomas Fuller were undergraduates of the university.