Class Key Quotations

Question 1

sin and falling

Answer 1

‘The penalty (sin)… deserv’d to fall’

Answer 2

‘Violated not their bliss’

Answer 3

‘Assembl’d Angels’

Answer 4

‘The Tempter cross’d the Gulf from Hell’

Answer 5

‘Mercie colleague with Justice, sending thee Mans Friend his Mediator, his desgin’d’

Answer 6

‘Expressed, and thus divinely answered mild’

Answer 7

‘This obtain of right, that I may mitigate their doom on me derived’

Question 8

etymologically without God

Answer 8

‘Despaire’

Question 9

Adam saying Eve is decieitful

Answer 9

‘From her hand I could suspect no ill’

Question 10

Adam explaining how he ate

Answer 10

‘Shee gave me of the Tree, and I did eate’

Question 11

Eve being honest about what she has done

Answer 11

‘The serpent me beguiled and I did eate’

Answer 12

‘Children thou shalt bring in sorrow forth; and to they husbands will thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule’

Answer 13

‘Judge and saviour sent’

Answer 14

‘Satan our Great Author thrives in other worlds

Answer 15

‘Immovable of this now fenceless world/Forfeit to Death’

Question 16

Satan portrayed as a hero

Answer 16

‘Satan in likeness of an angel bright’

Answer 17

‘He after Eve seduced’

Answer 18

‘Unminded slunk…terrified he fled’

Answer 19

‘Antagonist of heavens almighty king’

Answer 20

‘False glitter’

Answer 21

‘Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers’

Answer 22

‘By fraud I have seduced from his creator’

Answer 23

‘A dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn’

Answer 24

‘I submit, his doom is fair’

Question 25

Adam scared about death

Answer 25

'But shall I die a living death?'

Answer 26

'Deathless death'

Question 27

Adam questioning why all mankind should be punished for his actions

Answer 27

'Why should all mankind for one man's fault thus guiltless be condemned if guiltless?'

Question 28

Adam insulting Eve after his lament

Answer 28

'This fair defect of nature'

Question 29

Eve after Adam's insulting speech to her

Answer 29

'Now at his feet submissive in distress'

Question 30

Adam forgives due to Eve's beauty

Answer 30

'Creature so fair in reconcilement seeking'

Question 31

Adam forgiving Eve

Answer 31

'Thy frailty and infirmer sex forgiven'

Answer 32

'but strive in offices of love, how we may lighten each others burden in our shares of woe'

Question 33

Eve suggesting they don't have children so they can't be punished

Answer 33

'Childless thou art, childless remain'

Answer 34

'Of many ways to die the shortest choosing'

Answer 35

'Destruction with destruction to destroy'

Answer 36

'Self-destruction therefore sought, refutes that excellence thought in thee... regret for loss of life and pleasure overloved'

Answer 37

'Scape his punishment ordained'

Answer 38

'When angry most he seemed more severe, what else but favour, grace and mercy shone

Answer 39

'Prostrate fell/before him reverent, and both confessed humbly their faults...in sign of sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek'