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
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 159
“Herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.”
Quelle: L'Allegro (1631), Line 85
“Where more is meant than meets the ear.”
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 120
“And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet,
Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.”
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 45
“Then to the spicy nut-brown ale.”
Quelle: L'Allegro (1631), Line 100
“Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.”
Quelle: L'Allegro (1631), Line 117
“Or call up him that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold.”
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 109
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Stanza 1, line 1
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 128
“Peor and Baälim
Forsake their temples dim.”
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hymn. Line 197
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“Hence vain deluding Joys,
The brood of Folly without father bred!”
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 1
To Cyriack Skinner, upon His Blindness (c. 1655)
John Milton Lycidas
Quelle: Lycidas (1637), Line 123
“Ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and judge the prize.”
Quelle: L'Allegro (1631), Line 121
“New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.”
On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament (1645)
