Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

In John Milton's epic Paradise Lost it is given a more fitting neighbour:

An example is John Milton's Paradise Lost, an " epic elaboration of the Judeo-Christian mythology " and also a " veritable encyclopedia of myths from the Greek and Roman tradition ".

In addition to real life counterparts of the Abyssinian maid, Milton's Paradise Lost describes Abyssinian kings keeping their children guarded at Mount Amara and a false paradise, which is echoed in Kubla Khan.

Poetic genius, the genial spirit itself, Coleridge must see as daemonic when it is his own rather than when it is Milton's.

Published in 1818, it was based on a number of sources, including Ovid's myth of Prometheus ( indeed, the novel is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus "), Milton's Paradise Lost, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek.

The poem is an attempt to " vindicate the ways of God to Man ," a variation on Milton's attempt in Paradise Lost to " justify the ways of God to Man " ( 1. 26 ).

Furthermore, Fett " is cool because he was designed to be cool ", presenting a " wicked ambiguity " akin to John Milton's portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello.

* In John Milton's Paradise Lost ( Book 1 ), Satan is hurled " to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire ".

In John Milton's " Paradise Lost ," Peor is said to be the other name of the fallen angel Chemos, who " entic'd / Israel in Sittim on thir march from Nile / To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.

John Milton's Comus ( with music by Henry Lawes ) is described as a masque, though it is generally reckoned a pastoral play.

" While Milton's " the Attic boy " in Il Penseroso is also a reference to Cephalus.

In the invocation to Book 7 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the poet invokes Urania to aid his narration of the creation of the cosmos, though he cautions that it is " he meaning, not the name I call " ( 7. 5 ).

Astraea is also referenced in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, in Book IV between lines 990 and 1000.

Milton's central argument was that the individual is capable of using reason and distinguishing right from wrong, good from bad.

It incorporated in 1876 by David Harshbarger a large land holder, and is named for Milton Reese, Milton's first postmaster, in the vicinity at the time the town was established.

* John Milton's Paradise Lost is often cited as an apology of Satan's rebellion against a despotic God

In John Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1667 ), Moloch is one of the greatest warriors of the fallen angels,

River Cam is referred to as " Camus, reverend Sire " in line 103 of John Milton's pastoral elegy Lycidas.

In Book IX of John Milton's Paradise Lost, Satan is compared to a " will-o-the-wisp " in tempting of Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil:

In the early 1790s he completed two history pictures: Homer reciting his poems, a small picture of the poet in a pastoral setting ; and Satan summoning his legions, a giant canvas to illustrate lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

In 1786 he exhibited " Narcissus " and " The Lady and Sabrina " ( from Milton's " Comus ") at the Royal Academy ; these were followed by many works, usually small in size, illustrative of the English poets, especially James Thomson.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

Looking back from the spring of 1629 over the four years of Milton's undergraduate days, certain phases of his college career stand out as of permanent consequence to him and hence to us.

Venn and others have dealt with sports and pastimes at Cambridge in Milton's day with not very specific results.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Work Without Hope ( 1825 ), also refers to the herb, likely referencing Milton's earlier work.

* Robert Bridges, Milton's Prosody.

" Milton's Casuistry: The Case of ' The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

Epics that attempt to imitate these like Milton's Paradise Lost are known as literary, or secondary, epics.

Much of Milton's Paradise Lost occurs in the Garden of Eden.

The two most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Pardiso ( of the Divine Comedy ) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Examples of hubris are often found in fiction, most famously in Paradise Lost, John Milton's depiction of the biblical Lucifer.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

'" He goes on to explain the " daemonic ": " Opium was the avenging daemon or alastor of Coleridge's life, his dark or fallen angel, his experiential acquaintance with Milton's Satan.

As a result, " Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature ", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

File: Paradise Lost 19. jpg | Gustave Doré's illustration for Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer yielding before Gabriel

John Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, published in 1644, was one of the first publications advocating freedom of the press.

Shortly after Milton's birth, the family relocated to Rahway, New Jersey.

The Romantics drew comparisons between Prometheus and the spirit of the French Revolution, Christ, the Satan of John Milton's Paradise Lost, and the divinely inspired poet or artist.

All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

An important aspect of Sir Milton's character was his self-effacement.

Sir Milton's government was based on the rule of law and the notion of separation of powers, with multiparty political institutions and fairly viable representative structures.

Upon Sir Milton's death in 1964, his half-brother, Sir Albert Margai, was appointed as Prime Minister by parliament.