Paradise Lost Book 10 Quotes Flashcards
“heinous and despiteful act of Satan done”
Commentary on the fall (1-33)
“What can scape the eye of God all-seeing”
Commentary on the fall (1-33)
“Who…hindered not Satan”
Commentary on the fall (1-33)
“Of man with…free will armed”
Commentary on the fall (1-33)
“They knew and ought to have still remembered The high injunction not to taste
the fruit”
Commentary on the fall (1-33)
“They… deserved to fall”
Commentary on the fall (1-33)
“Be not dismayed nor troubled at these tidings”
God reacts and speaks to the angels (34-62)
“But whom send I to judge them?”
God reacts and speaks to the angels (34-62)
“Man’s friend, his mediator, his designed both ransom and redeemer voluntary”
God reacts and speaks to the angels (34-62)
Referring to Jesus
“Unfolding bright….blazed forth…resplendent”
Jesus responds to God’s request for him to judge them (63-91)
Milton describing Jesus
“To do thy will”
Jesus responds to God’s request for him to judge them (63-91)
“The worst on me must light, when time shall be”
Jesus responds to God’s request for him to judge them (63-91)
“I shall temper so justice with mercy”
Jesus responds to God’s request for him to judge them (63-91)
“They heard, and from his presence hid themselves among the thickest trees”
Adam and Eve hide from the Judge in Eden (92-123)
“Where art thou Adam?… I miss thee here”
Adam and Eve hide from the Judge in Eden (92-123)
Jesus looking for Adam
“Discountenanced both, and decomposed”
Adam and Eve hide from the Judge in Eden (92-123)
“Love was not in their looks”
Adam and Eve hide from the Judge in Eden (92-123)
“Guilt, and shame, and perturbation, and despair, Anger, and obstinacy, and hate, and guile”
Adam and Eve hide from the Judge in Eden (92-123)
“I stand… either to undergo myself the total crime, or to accuse my other self”
Adam confesses to Jesus whilst blaming Eve (124-141)
“This woman whom thou mad’st to be my help… so good, so fit, so acceptable, so divine”
Adam confesses to Jesus whilst blaming Eve (124-141)
“From her hand I could suspect no ill…her doing seemed to justify the deed”
Adam confesses to Jesus whilst blaming Eve (124-141)
“She gave me of the tree and I did eat”
Adam confesses to Jesus whilst blaming Eve (124-141)
“Was she thy God?”
Jesus responds to Adam’s confession in which he blamed Eve (144-156)
“Thou didst resign thy manhood”
Jesus responds to Adam’s confession in which he blamed Eve (144-156)
“She was lovely… to attract thy love, not thy subjection”
Jesus responds to Adam’s confession in which he blamed Eve (144-156)
“With shame nigh overwhelmed… and abashed”
Milton describing Eve’s confession (157-162)
“The serpent me beguiled and I did eat”
Eve’s confession (157-162)
“Polluted… vitiated in nature”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of the serpent
“Upon the belly grovelling thou shalt go, and dust shalt eat”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of the serpent
“Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of the serpent
“Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of Eve
“Children thou shalt bring forth in sorrow”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of Eve
“To thine husband’s will thine shalt submit, he over thee shall rule”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of Eve
“Cursed is the ground of thy sake… thorns and thistles it shall bring thee forth”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of Adam
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of Adam
“Dust thou art and shalt to dust return”
Judgement and punishment (163-208)
of Adam
“The instant stroke of death removed far off”
Jesus comforts Adam and Eve following the judgement (209-228)
in Milton’s voice
“Pitying how they stood before him… he clad their nakedness with skins of beasts”
Jesus comforts Adam and Eve following the judgement (209-228)
in Milton’s voice
“Nor he their outward only… but inward nakedness… with his robes of righteousness”
Jesus comforts Adam and Eve following the judgement (209-228)
in Milton’s voice
Sin: “Methinks I feel new strength within me rise”
Sin and Death feel the change following Satan’s success (229-281)
Death: “such a scent I draw of carnage, prey innumerable, and taste the savour of death”
Sin and Death feel the change following Satan’s success (229-281)
“As when a flock of ravenous fowl… to a field where armies lie encamped, come flying, lured with scent of living carcasses”
Sin and Death feel the change following Satan’s success (229-281)
“Deep to the roots of hell the gathered beach they fastened”
Sin and Death build the bridge from Hell to Earth (282-324)
“With pins of adamant and chains they made all fast, too fast they made and durable”
Sin and Death build the bridge from Hell to Earth (282-324)
“Satan in likeness of an angel bright … disguised he came”
Satan greets Sin and Death (325-409)
“Great joy was at their meeting”
Satan greets Sin and Death (325-409)
Sin: “My heart… which by a secret harmony moves with thine, joined in connexion sweet”
Satan greets Sin and Death (325-409)
“Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds”
Satan greets Sin and Death (325-409)
“Thine now is all this world”
Satan greets Sin and Death (325-409)
Sin and death can now go to Earth
“You two this way… right down to paradise descent, there dwell and reign with bliss”
Satan greets Sin and Death (325-409)
sending them to Earth
“Pandemonium, city and proud seat, of Lucifer”
Satan returns to Hell (410-459)
“Clad with what permissive glory since his fall was left him”
Satan returns to Hell (410-459)
“Successful beyond hope”
Satan addresses his followers (460-503)
“Him by fraud I have seduced”
Satan addresses his followers (460-503)
“The more to increase your wonder, with an apple”
Satan addresses his followers (460-503)
“True is, me also he hath judged…. or rather me not but the brute serpent”
Satan addresses his followers (460-503)
“What remains, ye gods, but up and enter now into full bliss”
Satan addresses his followers (460-503)
“A dismal universal hiss”
Punishment of Satan and his followers (504-584)
“Down he fell a monstrous serpent”
Punishment of Satan and his followers (504-584)
“Punished in the shape he sinned”
Punishment of Satan and his followers (504-584)
“Hiss for hiss returned, with forked tongue to forked tongue”
Punishment of Satan and his followers (504-584)
“Parched with scalding thirst and hunger fierce”
Punishment of Satan and his followers (504-584)
“Greedily they plucked the fruitage fair to sight… instead of fruit chewed bitter ashes”
Punishment of Satan and his followers (504-584)
“With hateful disrelish writher their jaws with soot and cinders filled”
Punishment of Satan and his followers (504-584)
“Sin there in power before, once actual, now in body”
Sin and Death rampage Earth (585-612)
Sin: “On these herbs, and fruits, and flowers feed first, on each beast next, and fish, and fowl”
Sin and Death rampage Earth (585-612)
“Till I in man… his thoughts, his looks, words, action all infect”
Sin and Death rampage Earth (585-612)
“And season him thy last and sweetest pray”
Sin and Death rampage Earth (585-612)
“The folly of man let in these wasteful furies”
God comments on Sin and Death on Earth (613-648)
“At one sling of thy victorious arm… at last through chaos hurled, obstruct the mouth of hell forever and seal up his ravenous jaws”
God comments on Sin and Death on Earth (613-648)
“The sun… as might affect the Earth with cold and heat scare tolerable”
God changes Earth (part of the punishment) 649-714
“Taught the fixed (planets) their influence malignant”
God changes Earth (part of the punishment) 649-714
“The winds they set their corners when to bluster to confound… the thunder when to roll with terror”
God changes Earth (part of the punishment) 649-714
“Death introduced through fierce antipathy: Beast now with beast ‘gan war”
God changes Earth (part of the punishment) 649-714
“hid in the gloomiest shade”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“I deserved it”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“Did I request thee, maker, from my clay to mould me man?”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“Unable to perform thy terms too hard… inexplicable thy justice seems”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out to deathless pain?”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“Why should all mankind for one man’s fault thus guiltless be condemned?”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“Divided with that bad woman”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“Out of my sight, thou serpent”
Adam blames Eve and women in general (863-908)
“A rib crooked by nature”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“But for thee I had persisted happy”
Adam’s despair (715-862)
“Thy suppliant I beg, and clasp thy knees”
Eve begs Adam for forgiveness 909-936
“Between us two let there be peace”
Eve begs Adam for forgiveness 909-936
“Both have sinned, but thou against God only, I against God and thee”
Eve begs Adam for forgiveness 909-936
“Soon his heart relented towards her”
Adam forgives Eve 937-965
“Thy frailty and infirmer sex forgiven”
Adam forgives Eve 937-965
“Let us no longer contend and blame each other…. but strive in offices of love”
Adam forgives Eve 937-965
“Childless thou art, childless remain: so death shall be deceived his glut”
Eve suggests that they don’t haven kids and die 966-1006
“Let us seek death, or he not found, supply with our own hands”
Eve suggests that they don’t haven kids and die 966-1006
“Violence against ourselves… savours only rancour, and pride, impatience and despite, reluctance against God”
Adam rejects Eve’s idea to remain childless and commit suicide, instead suggesting they carry on and repent (1007-1095)
“Pains only in childbearing… recompensed with joy”
Adam rejects Eve’s idea to remain childless and commit suicide, instead suggesting they carry on and repent (1007-1095)
“With labour I must earn my bread; what harm; idleness had been worse”
Adam rejects Eve’s idea to remain childless and commit suicide, instead suggesting they carry on and repent (1007-1095)
“If we pray him, will his ear be open”
Adam rejects Eve’s idea to remain childless and commit suicide, instead suggesting they carry on and repent (1007-1095)
“Some better warmth to cherish our limbs benumbed… such fire to use”
Adam rejects Eve’s idea to remain childless and commit suicide, instead suggesting they carry on and repent (1007-1095)
“Prostrate fall before him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg”
Adam rejects Eve’s idea to remain childless and commit suicide, instead suggesting they carry on and repent (1007-1095)
“Sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek”
Adam rejects Eve’s idea to remain childless and commit suicide, instead suggesting they carry on and repent (1007-1095)
“Prostrate fell before him reverent, and both confessed humbly their faults, and pardon begged”
Adam and Eve repent (1096-End)
“With tears watering the ground”
Adam and Eve repent (1096-End)
“Sent from hearts contrite”
Adam and Eve repent (1096-End)
“Of sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek”
Adam and Eve repent (1096-End)
