Paradise Lost Book IX Quotes

Question 0

Sin and

Answer 0

Her shadow Death

Question 1

I now

Answer 1

Must change those notes to tragic

Question 3

Foul

Answer 3

distrust

Question 4

Not less but

Answer 4

More heroic than the wrath

of stern Achilles

Question 4

Now improved

Answer 4

/ In meditated fraud and malice

Question 5

Higher

Answer 5

Argument

remains

Question 6

Bent on

Answer 6

Man’s destruction

Question 7

The serpent

Answer 7

Subtlest beast of all the field

Question 8

Fittest

Answer 8

Imp of fraud

Question 9

His darkest suggestions

Answer 9

Hide / from sharpest sight: for in the wily snake whatever sleights none would suspicious mark

Question 10

His bursting passion

Answer 10

Into plaints (complaints) thus poured

Question 12

O earth, how

Answer 12

Like to heaven, if not preferred

Question 13

With what delight

Answer 13

Could I have walked thee round

if I could joy in aught (anything)

Question 14

The more I see

Answer 14

/ Pleasures about me, so much more I feel

torment within me

Question 15

For only in destroying

Answer 15

I find ease

to my relentless thoughts

Question 15

Spite then

Answer 15

With spite is best repaid

Question 16

Who aspires must

Answer 16

Down as low

as high he soared

Question 17

Till more hands

Answer 17

/ Aid us

Question 18

Sole Eve

Answer 18

Associate sole, to me beyond

compare above all living creatures dear

Question 19

To whom the Virgin

Answer 19

Majesty of Eve

Question 20

Against his will

Answer 20

He can receive no harm

But God left free the will

Question 21

Seek not

Answer 21

Temptation
(Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one)

Question 22

A foe so proud

Answer 22

Will first the weaker seek

Question 23

So spake (speak)

Answer 23

The patriarch of mankind

Question 24

With thy permission then

Answer 24

And thus forewarned

Question 25

ye shall be as Gods

Answer 25

Knowing both good and evil as they know

Question 26

Revenge at first though sweet

Answer 26

Bitter ere long back on it self recoils

Question 27

He ended, and his words

Answer 27

replete (full) with guile (cunning intelligence)

Into her heart too easy entrance won

Question 28

Life more

Answer 28

perfect

Question 29

He on Eve

Began to

Answer 29

cast lascivious eyes, she him

As wantonly repaid: in lust they burn

Question 30

Greedily she engorged

Answer 30

without restraint,

And knew not eating death

Question 32

Revolt

Answer 32

and disobedience

Question 33

She pluck’d

Answer 33

she eat

Question 34

Earth felt

Answer 34

the wound

Question 35

Against his better knowledge,

Answer 35

not deceived,

But fondly overcome with female charm

Question 36

Carnal

Answer 36

desire inflaming

Question 37

For nothing lovelier

Answer 37

can be found In woman, than to study household good And good works in her husband to promote

Question 38

Our great

Answer 38

Forbidder, safe with all his Spies

About him.

Question 39

So dear I love him,

Answer 39

that with him all deaths

I could endure, without him live no life

Question 40

Like a black

Answer 40

mist low creeping

Satan

Question 41

The hot Hell

Answer 41

that alwayes in him burnes

Question 42

‘for with thee

Answer 42

Certain my resolution is to die’

Question 43

to lose thee

Answer 43

is to lose myself

Adam

Question 44

When Adam eats the apple

Answer 44

‘Nature gave a second groan’

Question 45

Daughter of God and Man,

Answer 45

immortal Eve,

For such thou art, from sin and blame entire

Question 46

Sufficient to have stood,

Answer 46

though free to fall

Book 3

Question 47

breathed immortal love

Answer 47

to mortal men, above which only shone filial obedience

Book 3

Question 48

which way I fly

Answer 48

is hell; my self am hell

Book 4

Question 49

all good to me is lost

Answer 49

evil be thou my good

Book 4

Question 50

true liberty

Answer 50

is lost

Book 12

Question 51

He for God only

Answer 51

She for God in him

Book 4