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John Milton byl anglický barokní básník, známý zejména díky své epické básni Ztracený ráj. Mimo jiné se snažil prosadit manželský rozvod a svobodu tisku. Do češtiny jeho díla překládal obrozenec Josef Jungmann. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. prosinec 1608 – 8. listopad 1674
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John Milton nejznámější citáty

„Lepší vládnout v pekle, než sloužit v nebi.“

John Milton kniha Ztracený ráj

Ztracený ráj

John Milton: Citáty o knihách

John Milton: Citáty o pekle

John Milton citáty a výroky

„Žena je nejpřijatelnějším omylem přírody.“

John Milton

Varianta: Žena je nejpřijatelnější omyl Přírody.

John Milton: Citáty anglicky

“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”

John Milton

The Reason of Church Government (1641), Book II, Introduction

“Alas! what boots it with incessant care
To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade,
And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?
Were it not better done as others use,
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,
Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorrèd shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.”

John Milton Lycidas

Zdroj: 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.

“In mirth that after no repenting draws.”

John Milton

To Cyriack Skinner, upon His Blindness (c. 1655)

“Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.”

John Milton

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

“The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”

John Milton

Zdroj: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 8

“That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.”

John Milton

On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.”

John Milton

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.”

John Milton

On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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.

John Milton

Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda (1654) p. 32 http://books.google.com/books?id=nbO6Zde06ocC&q=Non+%22caecitatem+non%22&pg=PA32#v=onepage

“The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.”

John Milton

Zdroj: L'Allegro (1631), Line 36

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