WHAT DOES MILTON MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of Milton in the English dictionary
The definition of Milton in the dictionary is John. 1608–74, English poet. His early works, notably L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, the masque Comus, and the elegy Lycidas, show the influence of his Christian humanist education and his love of Italian Renaissance poetry. A staunch Parliamentarian and opponent of episcopacy, he published many pamphlets during the Civil War period, including Areopagitica, which advocated freedom of the press. His greatest works were the epic poems Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained and the verse drama Samson Agonistes.
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10 QUOTES WITH «MILTON»
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The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MILTON»
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1
Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition ...
2
Hershey:
Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, ...
Examines the life of the head of the chocolate factory empire, describing his fatherless upbringing by a strict Mennonite mother, his failures with two early candy companies, and his construction of the utopian Hershey village.
3
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls.
Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman, 1990
4
The Tyranny of Heaven:
Milton's Rejection of God as King
The Tyranny of Heaven argues for a new way of reading the figure of Milton's God, contending that Milton rejects kings on earth and in heaven.
5
Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style
Full-length study of Milton's use of languages and the impact of his multilingualism on his major poems.
6
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and ...
Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz, 2008
7
John
Milton: Life, Work, and Thought
This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography.
Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns, 2008
8
Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
Friedman makes clear once and for all that no one is immune from monetary economics-that is, from the effects of its theory and its practices.
"Explores the radical effect of Milton's theological convictions on his peotry and prose."--cover.
Stanley Eugene Fish, 2001
10
Teaching Seminar with
Milton H. Erickson, M.D.
'With admirable clarity, Mrs Peters sums up what determines competence in spelling and the traditional and new approaches to its teaching.' -Times Literary Supplement
Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig, 1980
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MILTON»
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Residents applaud Lake Milton sound walls
LAKE MILTON, Ohio (WKBN) – Tom Keller and Paul Wolf have been neighbors for more than 15 years, but this is the first time things near their ... «WKBN.com, Jul 15»
Town of Milton receives nearly $1.9M in latest payment from …
The Town of Milton has received a first-quarter payment of $1,883,876 from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), its latest ... «InsideHalton.com, Jul 15»
Milton mayor steadfast in keeping tax rates low
Keeping tax rates low has been a top priority for Milton Mayor Gord Krantz come budget time, but with population growth and demands for ... «InsideHalton.com, Jul 15»
Campaigners battle on over Milton homes plan
Paul Pritchard, a member of the Milton Neighbourhood Planning ... Cllr Stubbs also agreed at the meeting to designate Milton Common as a ... «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
Milton leaves Orion
The reshuffle did not include a formal role for Milton. Hachette UK said at the time that it had asked Milton to stay on as a consultant, but she has ... «The Bookseller, Jul 15»
Canadian cyclists ready for individual time trials in Milton
From left, Sean MacKinnon, Laura Brown, Jasmin Glaesser and Hugo Houle are set to represent Canada in Wednesday's Pan Am time trials in ... «InsideHalton.com, Jul 15»
Milton Area School District loses its band
MILTON — The Milton Area High School band program has been cancelled for the 2015-16 school year following the resignation of long-time ... «Sunbury Daily Item, Jul 15»
James Drummond leads Milton into Junior Cup final
James Drummond helped himself to a five-wicket haul as Milton overcame Cambridge Granta III to reach the CCA Junior Cup final. Milton won ... «Cambridge News, Jul 15»
Brothers fined for picking up scrap from streets of Milton Keynes
A council spokesman said; “It soon became clear that Marius was licensed to deal in scrap metal in Milton Keynes, but Nicolae wasn't. Neither ... «Milton Keynes Citizen, Jul 15»
Milton Teens Help Rescue Actor From South Boston Waters
BOSTON (CBS) – A day of boating near Carson Beach turned into a rescue mission for three Milton teens Monday. They helped rescue a man ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
