Paradise Lost quotes Flashcards
(37 cards)
“Bent on man’s destruction”
Narrator Book IX
“He rode with darkness”
Narrator Book IX
“The serpent subtlest beast of all the field”
Narrator Book IX
“Dark suggestions”
Narrator Book IX
“The more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me”
Satan Book IX
“For only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”
Satan Book IX
“Man he made, and for him he built this magnificent world”
Satan Book IX
“Dark intent”
Satan Book IX
“What will not ambition and revenge descend to”
Satan Book IX
“Let us divide our labours”
Eve Book IX
“What malicious foe envying our happiness”
Adam Book IX
“Leave not the faithful side that gave thee being”
Adam Book IX
“Safest and seemliest by her husband stays”
Adam Book IX
“The tree is not as we are told .. but of divine effect to open eyes”
Eve Book IX
Eating the fruit has caused her to grow “up to godhead”
Eve Book IX
“defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote?”
Adam Book IX
“How can I live without thee”
Adam Book IX
“Our state cannot be severed, we are one, one flesh”
Adam Book IX
“Against his better knowledge, not deceived”
Narrator Book IX
“The mortal sin original”
Narrator Book IX
“Carnal desire inflaming”
Narrator Book IX
“In lust they burn”
Narrator Book IX
“Soon found their eyes how opened, and their minds how darkened; innocence, that as a veil had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone”
Narrator Book IX
“Why didst not thou the head command me absolutely not to go”
Eve Book IX
