Paradise Lost book IX-- Quotes Flashcards
(44 cards)
(Milton) My celestial…
patroness…dictates to me.
Satan: in meditated…
fraud and malice, bent on Man’s destruction.
The serpent…
subtlest beast of all the field
like a black mist…
low creeping, he held on his midnight search
send up silent…
praise to the Creator
vocal…
worship
Eve: Let us…
divide our labours
Adam: sole eve…
associate sole, to me above all living creatures dear!
Adam: short absence I could yield…
for solitude is sometimes best society, and short retirement urges sweet return
Adam: but other doubt…
possesses me … What malicious foe envying our happiness
Adam: The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks…
safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures
Eve: his fraud is, then, thy fear; which plain infers…
thy equal fear that my firm faith and love can by his fraud be shaken or seduced
Adam: Subtle he needs must be…
who could seduce angels
from her husband’s hand …
her hand soft she withdrew
O much deceived…
much failing, hapless Eve
Despoiled of…
innocence, of faith, of bliss
the only two of mankind…
but in them the whole included race, his purposed prey
such pleasure took the serpent…
to behold… the sweet recess of eve
her heavenly form…
angelic but more soft and feminine
overawed his…
malice
The Evil one abstracted stood…
from his own evil… remained stupidly good.
pleasure to…
destroy
head crested…
aloft.. his circling spires
Satan: celestial..
beauty adore
