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 <br class="br">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
John Milton buch Areopagitica
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
John Milton buch Paradise Lost
Quelle: Paradise Lost
John Milton buch Paradise Lost
Quelle: Paradise Lost
Attributed to Milton at http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31964/#sthash.zAJjMqmY.dpbs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverence_(emotion)#Quotations, great-quotes.com, and brainyquote.com. <br class="br">Spirituality author Sarah Ban Breathnach writes, in her 1996 Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude: "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life (is it abundant or is it lacking?) and the world (is it friendly or is it hostile?)." A Milton quotation occurs on the same page. <br class="br">Misattributed
John Milton buch Paradise Lost
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“So shall the world go on,
To good malignant, to bad men benign,
Under her own weight groaning.”
John Milton buch Paradise Lost
Quelle: Paradise Lost
John Milton buch Paradise Lost
Quelle: Paradise Lost
John Milton buch Paradise Lost
Quelle: Paradise Lost
On Time (1633–34)
Tractate of Education (1644)
“From haunted spring and dale
Edged with poplar pale
The parting genius is with sighing sent.”
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hymn, stanza 20, line 184
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
To the Lady Margaret Ley http://www.bartleby.com/106/85.html
The Reason of Church Government (1641), Book II, Introduction
John Milton buch Paradise Lost
x.1532-40
Paradise Lost (1667)
“Have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern god of sea.”
Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5
“Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy”
At a Solemn Music (c. 1637), line 1
“Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell,
And devilish machinations come to nought.”
John Milton Paradise Regained
Book I: Lines 72-73
Paradise Regained (1671)
Sonnet VIII: When the Assault was intended to the City
The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume II, Book III. http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Milton0174/ProseWorks/HTMLs/0233-02_Pt08b_LongParliament.html (1847)
“Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.”
On His Deceased Wife (c. 1658)
“O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,
Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”
Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.”
Tractate of Education (1644)
“Mirth, admit me of thy crew,
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreprovèd pleasures free.”
Quelle: L'Allegro (1631), Line 38
