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
“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”
The Reason of Church Government (1641), Book II, Introduction
Quelle: Lycidas (1637), Line 64; comparable to: "Erant quibus appetentior famæ videretur, quando etiam sapientibus cupido gloriae novissima exuitur" (Translated: "Some might consider him as too fond of fame, for the desire of glory clings even to the best of men longer than any other passion"), Tacitus, Historiae, iv. 6; said of Helvidius Priscus.
“And add to these retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.”
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 49
“Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.”
To the Lord General Cromwell (1652)
Quoted by President Benjamin Harrison in his dedication of the Chicago Auditorium, and thereafter inscribed on the building, as reported in Dr. William Carter, "Progress in World's Peace Movement", California Outlook (1913), Vol. 14, p. 11
“That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.”
On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.”
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 173
“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.”
Sonnet to the Nightingale, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "That well by reason men it call may / The daisie, or els the eye of the day, / The emprise, and floure of floures all", Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183
“License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.”
On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”
i.262-263
Paradise Lost (1667)
“Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”
Tetrachordon (1644–1645)
“He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,
With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.”
Quelle: Lycidas (1637), Line 188
“It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.”
Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda (1654) p. 32 http://books.google.com/books?id=nbO6Zde06ocC&q=Non+%22caecitatem+non%22&pg=PA32#v=onepage
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!”
Quelle: Lycidas (1637), Line 37
“At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:
Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”
Quelle: Lycidas (1637), Line 192
“His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.”
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
“Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!”
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 61
