Henry Hart Milman Quotes

Henry Hart Milman was an English historian and ecclesiastic.

✵ 10. February 1791 – 24. September 1868
Henry Hart Milman photo
Henry Hart Milman: 5   quotes 0   likes

Famous Henry Hart Milman Quotes

“Ride on, ride on, in majesty!
In lowly pomp ride on to die.”

Hymn Ride on, Ride on in Majesty (1827).

“Thou our throbbing flesh hast worn;
Thou our mortal griefs hast borne;
Thou hast shed the human tear;
Jesus, Son of Mary, hear!”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 94.

“Death cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 180.

“And the cold marble leapt to life a god.”

The Belvedere Apollo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”

The Belvedere Apollo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Similar authors

François-René de Chateaubriand photo
François-René de Chateaubriand 28
French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
Thomas Carlyle photo
Thomas Carlyle 481
Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian…
Emily Brontë photo
Emily Brontë 151
English novelist and poet
Theodor Mommsen photo
Theodor Mommsen 65
German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, po…
George Eliot photo
George Eliot 300
English novelist, journalist and translator
Robert Southey photo
Robert Southey 51
British poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 88
English poet, author
Jane Austen photo
Jane Austen 477
English novelist
Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 220
English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Percy Bysshe Shelley photo
Percy Bysshe Shelley 246
English Romantic poet