-- On to the sacred hill [ 25 ] They led him high applauded,

Because the tone and idiom he uses is not the same we use today. Unless you want to write a deliberately archaized epic poem.

>>9622835
Because you are not Milton.

>>9622848
Is 'from whence' any more archaic than just 'whence' on its own? From what I've heard 'whence' means 'from where', so 'from whence' would mean 'from from where'. I raise the point because I was literally in a lecture a few days ago where the professor told us all never to say 'from whence' because it's ungrammatical, but then here's one the greatest English writers ever using that exact phrase. And there's no way he didn't know it was ungrammatical, i mean he studied Latin and Greek for like his whole of his education

>>9622865
actually nevermind stupid question apparently Shakespeare, Hobbes and Emerson all used from whence too. I guess its just a stylistic thing

>>9622835
You can use it but it needs to be surrounded by plain words and language.

>>9622848
what's the idiom?

>>9622865
From whence did this meme cometh?

>>9622835
If Milton can replace his 'f' with 'f', then fo can I.

>>9622915
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
>Paradiſe Loſt

>>9623121
ſuck u