Henry Hart Milman

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

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).