John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2675 John Milton 1608-1674 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2675 |
| AUTHOR: | John Milton (1608–1674) |
| QUOTATION: | Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin’d over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes’ throne. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267. |