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A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
... [ mil -tŏn] n. Trademark. a solution of sodium hypochlorite, used especially for sterilizing babies’ feeding...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)
...other states have cities with this name, some named after the poet, John Milton , others after mills, and yet others after people called Milton or with Milton in their...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 4001; scattered: especially Devon and Somerset; SE England; also Banffs, Morays, and Aberdeens. English, Scottish: locative name from one or other of the many places named Milton, or sometimes Middleton ( see Middleton ) and occasionally Melton ( see Melton ), most of which derive from Old English middel ‘middle’ or myln ‘mill’ + tūn ‘farmstead,...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 20703 English and Scottish: habitational name from one or other of the many places called Milton, or sometimes Middleton (see Middleton ) and occasionally Melton (see Melton ), most of which derive from Old English middel ‘middle’ or myln ‘mill’ + tūn ‘farmstead,...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... A poem in two books by William Blake , written and etched 1804–8 , one of his most complex mythological works, prefaced by his well-known lines ‘And did those feet in ancient time’, commonly known as 'Jerusalem' . It uses the mythological and allegorical framework of his earlier poems and also develops Blake's own powerful and personal response to Paradise Lost and its author ( see Marriage of Heaven and Hell ). Blake seems to suggest that he himself becomes permeated with the spirit of Milton , who descends to earth in order to save Albion through...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...the bizarre and the sublime mingle, as Blake describes the spirit of Milton entering his foot—‘and all this Vegetable World appear'd on my left Foot | As a bright sandal form'd immortal of precious stones and gold. | I stooped down and bound it to walk forward through eternity’. Blake imagines himself carried from Lambeth to Felpham (in Sussex) by Los , where, walking in his cottage garden, he is visited by the Virgin Ololon, in search of Milton. The poem draws to an end with Milton's address to Ololon, in which he proclaims his mission of regeneration—‘To...
Milton, John (10 February 1805) Reference library
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
..., John British , 18th century, male. died 10 February 1805 . Medallist , engraver . John Milton was medallist to the Prince of...
Milton, William (1790) Reference library
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
..., William British , 18th century, male. Active in London. died 1790 , in Lambeth (London). Engraver , illustrator . William Milton worked for...
Milton, John (c.1563) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
..., John ( b Stanton St John, nr Oxford , c. 1563 ; d London , 1647 ) English composer of madrigals , viol music , and psalms . Chorister, Chr. Ch., Oxford, 1572–7 . Contributed ‘Fair Orian’ to The Triumphs of Oriana . Father of poet John Milton...
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
... Bryan Bedfordshire Small village halfway between Milton Keynes and Luton. The novelist Muriel Spark was employed here in the Political Intelligence section of MI6 during the Second World War. She worked on fake radio broadcasts designed to undermine German morale. The station was occasionally visited by Ian Fleming...
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World Encyclopedia
... Keynes Town in Buckinghamshire, s central England. A new town, it was designed on a grid pattern by Richard Llewelyn-Davies in 1967 . Milton Keynes is the headquarters of the Open University. The economy is based on retail and light industries. Pop. ( 2001 )...
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John Milsom
The Oxford Companion to Music
...Milton, John ( b Stanton St John, nr Oxford , c. 1563 ; d London , March 1647 ). English amateur composer , father of the poet John Milton . He was educated at Oxford and later became a member of the Scriveners' Company. He wrote anthems and consort music and contributed to Morley's Triumphes of Oriana and William Leighton's Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule . John...
Milton, Thomas (c.1743) Reference library
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
..., Thomas British , 18th – 19th century, male. Born c.1743 ; died 27 February 1827 , in Bristol. Engraver . Genre scenes, landscapes. Thomas Milton, whose great uncle was the brother of the poet John Milton, studied under Woollett. From 1783 to 1786 he lived in Dublin, where he published 24 plates entitled Views of Seats in Ireland , before moving to London. He also engraved a series of plates for an edition of Shakespeare and was President of the Society of...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
..., John The English poet ( 1608–74 ) and author of, inter alia, Comus ( 1633 ), Paradise Lost ( 1667 ), Paradise Regained ( 1671 ) and Samson Agonistes ( 1671 ). Milton is the deity of prescience; he stands ab extra , and drives a fiery chariot and four, making the horses feel the iron curb which holds them in. Milton of Germany Friedrich G. Klopstock ( 1724–1803 ), author of The Messiah ( 1773...
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Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy
...at an early stage Hardy reread Milton, the most important epic poet in English (see LW 212). In a letter of 20 February 1908 (quoted LW 492) he links Milton's name and his own: ‘like Paradise Lost , The Dynasts proves nothing’. Joan Grundy , however, has argued that it is Tess rather than The Dynasts that is Hardy's Paradise Lost , and has noted in this novel a number of direct or indirect allusions to Milton's epic: among others, Alec d'Urberville, the heroine's tempter, is explicitly compared to Milton's Satan, and Tess herself is compared to...
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Beverly Taylor
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...Milton, John ( 1608–74 ), major poet and essayist . A favourite of Revd Patrick Brontë , Milton was familiar to the Brontë siblings from childhood, and his works echo in their juvenilia, novels, and Charlotte's letters. Though they allude most frequently to Paradise Lost , and Milton stands first among the poets Charlotte recommended to Ellen Nussey ( 4 July 1834 , in Smith Letters , 1. 130), by 1830 Charlotte was also familiar with at least some of Milton's prose ( Reason of Church Government ). Milton's influence registers in Charlotte's visual...
Aborn, Milton (1864–1933) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
...Milton ( 1864–1933 ), producer . Born in Marysville, California, he began his career as a stage manager and actor, and for several years worked with B. F. Keith in Boston. He joined with his brother Sargent ( 1867?–1956 ) to produce popular‐priced productions of favorite musicals, and within a few years they had no fewer than six companies touring the country. Milton supervised the artistic end; Sargent, the financial side. The brothers split in the early 1920s and Milton opened a school of opera and operetta. In 1922 Sargent took over the A. W....
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Stephen Orgel
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
..., John ( 1608–74 ), political pamphleteer , Latin secretary to the Council of State under Cromwell , and the greatest poet of the 17th century. His first published work was the sonnet ‘On Shakespeare’, included without attribution among the commendatory verses in the Second Folio ( 1632 ). It appeared definitively as Milton ’s only in the 1673 Poems , where it is dated 1630 . In it, the 22-year-old Milton credits Shakespeare with ‘easy numbers’ and ‘delphic lines’. A year later, in ‘L’Allegro’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton’s...
Milton, John (1608–74) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
..., John ( 1608–74 ) English poet . Milton first major pieces are the masque Comus ( 1634 ), and the pastoral elergy Lycidas ( 1637 ). He was committed to reform of the Church of England, and his pamphlet Of Reformation in England ( 1641 ) attacked episcopacy. A champion of the revolutionary forces in the English Civil War ( 1642–51 ), his Areopagitica ( 1644 ) is a classic argument for freedom of the press. Milton's defence of regicides in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ( 1649 ) earned him a position in Cromwell 's Commonwealth...
Babbitt, Milton (1916–2011) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
...Milton ( 1916–2011 ) US composer , musicologist , and teacher . Babbitt studied with Roger Sessions and his mathematical background influenced his music. He systematized the analysis of twelve-tone music . His compositions include vocal, piano and chamber music, as well as electronic...
