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.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 240...
Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 76...
The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 220...
Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 327...
Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 274...
Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, Meroe, Nilotic isle.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 70...
Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 426...
At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 34...
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book ii, Line 228...