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Quotes from Milton', The Edinburgh Review — Thomas Babington Macaulay

1800–1859 England

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed have to wait forever.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

Many evils, no doubt, were produced by the civil war. They were the price of our liberty.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed have to wait forever.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

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