4月27： Socrates, John Milton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Pearson, Ulysses S. Grant, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Events The London Library 350 years ago on this day, 27th April 1667, John Milton, blind, poor and out of favour with the Restoration authorities, sold the copyright to his epic, Paradise Lost for just £10. An early example of authors getting squeezed! 鬥士參孫 激情全消融， all passion spent. The Hogarth Press http://hcshakespeare.blogspot.tw/…/all-passion-spent-hogart… BBC Radio 4 5月7日 18:46 · "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." John Milton and the enduring influence of Paradise Lost BBC.CO.UK ---- "I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves." "It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like co...