Paradise Lost Book IX Quotes Flashcards
(51 cards)
Sin and
Her shadow Death
I now
Must change those notes to tragic
Foul
distrust
Not less but
More heroic than the wrath
of stern Achilles
Now improved
/ In meditated fraud and malice
Higher
Argument
remains
Bent on
Man’s destruction
The serpent
Subtlest beast of all the field
Fittest
Imp of fraud
His darkest suggestions
Hide / from sharpest sight: for in the wily snake whatever sleights none would suspicious mark
His bursting passion
Into plaints (complaints) thus poured
O earth, how
Like to heaven, if not preferred
With what delight
Could I have walked thee round
if I could joy in aught (anything)
The more I see
/ Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
torment within me
For only in destroying
I find ease
to my relentless thoughts
Spite then
With spite is best repaid
Who aspires must
Down as low
as high he soared
Till more hands
/ Aid us
Sole Eve
Associate sole, to me beyond
compare above all living creatures dear
To whom the Virgin
Majesty of Eve
Against his will
He can receive no harm
But God left free the will
Seek not
Temptation
(Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one)
A foe so proud
Will first the weaker seek
So spake (speak)
The patriarch of mankind