Illustrious Men #252224

Such are the men, with one exception, who form that great group but where is he, the central figure — perhaps the greatest of them all? Down in Buckinghamshire, at his father's country house, lives john Milton, the poet. There, in his early manhood, for he is only twenty-five, the poet is beginning to send forth those gleams of light that be speak a glorious genius in its dawn.