Frases de John Milton

John Milton fue un poeta y ensayista inglés, conocido especialmente por su poema épico El paraíso perdido . Políticamente fue una figura importante entre los que apoyaron la Mancomunidad de Inglaterra. Ocupó el puesto de ministro de lenguas extranjeras bajo el mandato de Oliver Cromwell y sus tratados políticos fueron consultados para la redacción de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos de América.[1]​

Poéticamente, Milton es una de las figuras más importantes del panorama literario inglés, siendo en ocasiones situado al mismo nivel que Shakespeare. La influencia de Milton en la literatura posterior es amplia y variada: se atribuye a la influencia de su obra la aceptación y difusión del verso blanco en poesía,[2]​ y, especialmente durante el Romanticismo, las alusiones a su obra alcanzaron un nivel similar al gozado por las referencias clásicas. La propia personalidad de Milton ha sido en ocasiones debatida y criticada, en especial, la forma en la que se dibujó a sí mismo en algunas de sus obras, sobre todo en la «Defensio».[3]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 9. diciembre 1608 – 8. noviembre 1674
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Areopagítica
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“Cuida el saber escrito ya que destruir un libro es casi como matar a un hombre: quien mata a un hombre, mata a un ser de razón, pero quien destruye un libro, mata a la razón humana.”

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. 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.
Fuente: Areopagítica (discurso de Milton en 1644, por la libertad de prensa sin licencia ante el Parlamento de Inglaterra).

John Milton: Frases en inglés

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

Variante: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Fuente: Paradise Lost

“Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

Fuente: Paradise Lost

“What though the field be lost?
All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And the courage never to submit or yeild.”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

Variante: All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
Fuente: Paradise Lost

“What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

i.17-26
Paradise Lost (1667)
Contexto: And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert th' Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.

“The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same…”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

i.254-255
Paradise Lost (1667)
Variante: The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Fuente: Paradise Lost: Books 1-2

“Without the meed of some melodious tear.”

John Milton Lycidas

Fuente: Lycidas (1637), Line 14

“As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.”

On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“What hath night to do with sleep?”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

Fuente: Paradise Lost

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

Fuente: Paradise Lost

“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own.”

The History of England, Book ii
Contexto: I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

“Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
When most unactive deemed”

John Milton libro Samson Agonistes

Fuente: Samson Agonistes (1671), Lines 1687-1692 & 1697-1707
Contexto: But he, though blind of sight,
Despised, and thought extinguished quite,
With inward eyes illuminated,
His fiery virtue roused
From under ashes into sudden flame,
[... ]
So Virtue, given for lost,
Depressed and overthrown, as seemed,
Like that self-begotten bird
In the Arabian woods embost,
That no second knows nor third,
And lay erewhile a holocaust,
From out her ashy womb now teemed,
Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
When most unactive deemed;
And, though her body die, her fame survives,
A secular bird, ages of lives.

“But he, though blind of sight,
Despised, and thought extinguished quite,
With inward eyes illuminated,
His fiery virtue roused
From under ashes into sudden flame,”

John Milton libro Samson Agonistes

Fuente: Samson Agonistes (1671), Lines 1687-1692 & 1697-1707
Contexto: But he, though blind of sight,
Despised, and thought extinguished quite,
With inward eyes illuminated,
His fiery virtue roused
From under ashes into sudden flame,
[... ]
So Virtue, given for lost,
Depressed and overthrown, as seemed,
Like that self-begotten bird
In the Arabian woods embost,
That no second knows nor third,
And lay erewhile a holocaust,
From out her ashy womb now teemed,
Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
When most unactive deemed;
And, though her body die, her fame survives,
A secular bird, ages of lives.

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

Fuente: Paradise Lost

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”

John Milton libro El paraíso perdido

Fuente: Paradise Lost

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