Famous quotes containing the words milton and/or show:
“His legions, angel forms, who lay intranst
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa, where th’Etrurian shades
High overarcht imbowr.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing. Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)