John Milton Berühmte Zitate
„Besser ist es, in der Hölle zu herrschen, als im Himmel dienen.“
Johann Milton's verlornes Paradies. Aus dem Englischen neu übersetzt von Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckbräu. München 1828. S. 38 books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=6TE_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38
Original engl.: "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n." - Paradise Lost, Book 1 (1667) en.wikisource.org http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_I
Aeropagitica (1644)
"Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye." - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Areopagitica
John Milton: Zitate auf Englisch
On Shakespeare (1630)
Quelle: The Complete Poetry
“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”
Quelle: Paradise Regained by John Milton
“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
On Shakespeare (1630)
Quelle: The Complete Poetry
“Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.”
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”
On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three (1631)
“Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.”
At a Solemn Music
Quelle: The Complete Poetry
“Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?”
Quelle: Paradise Lost
Attributed to Auguste Rodin in: Leonard William Doob (1990). Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection. p. 124
Quelle: On His Blindness (1652)
“Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.”
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“Our torments also may in length of time
Become our Elements.”
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), section VIII
Quelle: An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
Kontext: So little care they of beasts to make them men, that by their sorcerous doctrine of formalities, they take the way to transform them out of Christian men into judaizing beasts. Had they but taught the land, or suffered it to be taught, as Christ would it should have been in all plenteous dispensation of the word, then the poor mechanic might have so accustomed his ear to good teaching, as to have discerned between faithful teachers and false. But now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness; just as the Pharisees their true fathers were wont, who could not endure that the people should be thought competent judges of Christ’s doctrine, although we know they judged far better than those great rabbis: yet “this people,” said they, “that know not the law is accursed.”
