Paradise Lost book IX-- Quotes Flashcards
(Milton) My celestial…
patroness…dictates to me.
Satan: in meditated…
fraud and malice, bent on Man’s destruction.
The serpent…
subtlest beast of all the field
like a black mist…
low creeping, he held on his midnight search
send up silent…
praise to the Creator
vocal…
worship
Eve: Let us…
divide our labours
Adam: sole eve…
associate sole, to me above all living creatures dear!
Adam: short absence I could yield…
for solitude is sometimes best society, and short retirement urges sweet return
Adam: but other doubt…
possesses me … What malicious foe envying our happiness
Adam: The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks…
safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures
Eve: his fraud is, then, thy fear; which plain infers…
thy equal fear that my firm faith and love can by his fraud be shaken or seduced
Adam: Subtle he needs must be…
who could seduce angels
from her husband’s hand …
her hand soft she withdrew
O much deceived…
much failing, hapless Eve
Despoiled of…
innocence, of faith, of bliss
the only two of mankind…
but in them the whole included race, his purposed prey
