Showing posts with label Milton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milton. Show all posts

Monday, June 13, 2022

To know good by knowing good is the privilege of the unfallen.

Catherine Nicholson, on Milton in the NYR 

 

Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Eloquence and erudition were the twin prerequisites of greatness ... any effort expended in the cultivation of such gifts would surely be rewarded, if not in this world then in the world to come.

Catherine Nicholson, on Milton in the NYR

Friday, June 10, 2011

Ingrate, he had of me all he could have;
I made him just and right,
Sufficient to have stood,
Though free to fall.

Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III.