Henry Hart Milman
English historian and churchman (1791–1868)
Henry Hart Milman (November 10, 1791 – September 24, 1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic.
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Quotes
edit- 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).
