Paradise Lost Book IX Quotes Flashcards
Sin and
Her shadow Death
I now
Must change those notes to tragic
Foul
distrust
Not less but
More heroic than the wrath
of stern Achilles
Now improved
/ In meditated fraud and malice
Higher
Argument
remains
Bent on
Man’s destruction
The serpent
Subtlest beast of all the field
Fittest
Imp of fraud
His darkest suggestions
Hide / from sharpest sight: for in the wily snake whatever sleights none would suspicious mark
His bursting passion
Into plaints (complaints) thus poured
O earth, how
Like to heaven, if not preferred
With what delight
Could I have walked thee round
if I could joy in aught (anything)
The more I see
/ Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
torment within me
For only in destroying
I find ease
to my relentless thoughts
Spite then
With spite is best repaid
Who aspires must
Down as low
as high he soared
Till more hands
/ Aid us
Sole Eve
Associate sole, to me beyond
compare above all living creatures dear
To whom the Virgin
Majesty of Eve
Against his will
He can receive no harm
But God left free the will
Seek not
Temptation
(Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one)
A foe so proud
Will first the weaker seek
So spake (speak)
The patriarch of mankind
With thy permission then
And thus forewarned
ye shall be as Gods
Knowing both good and evil as they know
Revenge at first though sweet
Bitter ere long back on it self recoils
He ended, and his words
replete (full) with guile (cunning intelligence)
Into her heart too easy entrance won
Life more
perfect
He on Eve
Began to
cast lascivious eyes, she him
As wantonly repaid: in lust they burn
Greedily she engorged
without restraint,
And knew not eating death
Revolt
and disobedience
She pluck’d
she eat
Earth felt
the wound
Against his better knowledge,
not deceived,
But fondly overcome with female charm
Carnal
desire inflaming
For nothing lovelier
can be found In woman, than to study household good And good works in her husband to promote
Our great
Forbidder, safe with all his Spies
About him.
So dear I love him,
that with him all deaths
I could endure, without him live no life
Like a black
mist low creeping
Satan
The hot Hell
that alwayes in him burnes
‘for with thee
Certain my resolution is to die’
to lose thee
is to lose myself
Adam
When Adam eats the apple
‘Nature gave a second groan’
Daughter of God and Man,
immortal Eve,
For such thou art, from sin and blame entire
Sufficient to have stood,
though free to fall
Book 3
breathed immortal love
to mortal men, above which only shone filial obedience
Book 3
which way I fly
is hell; my self am hell
Book 4
all good to me is lost
evil be thou my good
Book 4
true liberty
is lost
Book 12
He for God only
She for God in him
Book 4
