Key Quotations - Narrator Flashcards
Narrator judges Adam and Eve
‘They deserved to fall’
Narrator describing Satan
‘Prince of darkness’
Narrator on Adam’s intelligence
‘His more attentive mind’
Narrator describing how the angels are feeling
‘Displeas’d’ , ‘dim sadness’
God’s throne
‘Throne Supream’
God is transcendent
‘From his secret cloud, amidst in thunder’
God as the ruler of heaven
‘From his radiant seat he rose’
Sin is Satan’s daughter
‘His fair enchanting child’
Satan blamed for Eve’s fall, but Eve caused Adam’s
‘The Serpent, had perverted Eve, her husband shee’
Satan’s demons become serpents
‘Hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue to forked tongue’
How the demon serpents moved
‘They rolled in heaps’
The serpents don’t eat what they expected
‘instead of fruit chewed bitter ashes
How easy it is to sin
‘Smooth, easie, inoffensive down to hell’
Adam and Eve before God
‘fell Before him reverent’
Jesus pities Adam and Eve, giving them clothes
‘Pittying how they stood before him naked to the attire’
Jesus’ holy garments
‘His robe of righteousness’
Adam is infected by evil
‘His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect’
Eve was flawless to Adam
‘Thy perfect gift’
Satan crashed to Earth
‘Saw Satan fall like lightning’
Chaos is a slimy, damp, deep sea
‘Solid or slimie, as in raging sea’
Oxymoron of death
‘living carcasses’
Hell is underground
‘Deep to the roots of hell’
Reference to Eve eating in book IX
‘greedily they pluck’d’
Reference to Adam’s uxoriousness
‘Fondly thinking to allay their appetite’
Hell is angry but open
‘stood open wide, belching outrageous flame’
Block off hell
‘Obstruct the mouth of hell forever, and seal up his ravenous jaws’
Future humans born sinners
‘born to certain woe, devoured by death at last’
