paradise lost mock quotations Flashcards
end of Book 1
the great consult began
start of book 2
high on a throne of royal estate
what ties angels to lake
adamantine chains
angels at start are
rolling in the fiery gulf
in heaven they must sing
forced hallelujahs
hell is a place ‘where
where peace and rest can never dwell
list describing hell
rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens and shades of death/ A Universe of death
gates of hell opening
every bolt and bar of massy iron or solid rock with ease unfastens
chaos in two phrases
eternal anarchy
endless wars
Satan pathetically trying to fly in chaos
flutt’ring his pennons vain
blank! blank! blank!
Princes! Potentates! Warriors!
ending line of speech convincing chaos
yours be th’advantage all, mine the revenge
idea of futility in war with heaven (book 1)
2 x 2 word phrases
impious war
vain attempt
three ways Belial describes heaven
impregnable
incorruptible
unpolluted
what is Belial arguing for
peaceful sloath not peace
Belial’s rhetoric is sweet
all was false and hollow though his tongue/ dropped manna
Moloch’s contorting proposition
turning our tortures into horrid arms/ Against the torturer
what did man’s first disobedience do
brought death into the world and all our woe
Satan being provoked by two deadly sins (ish)
stirred up with envy and revenge
Satan as relentless yet futile actions (book 2)
insatiable to pursue/ Vain warr
the three things Mammon wants out of the ground
hidden lustre, gemms and gold
to make pandemonium, what was opened and what was taken out (x2 quotes)
spacious wound
ribs of gold
humans being greedy little defiling shits
with impious hands rifled the bowels of their mother earth
when we first see sin
woman to the waist and fair/ but ended foul in many a scaly fold
what sin says the hounds do to her
howl and knaw my bowels
Sin pointing out that Satan is a narcissist
thyself in me thy perfect image viewing becam’st enamoured
two classical features of pandemonium
Doric pillars
golden architrave
Satan’s stubborn mind
a mind not to be changed by place or time
Satan never giving up
courage never to submit or yield
militaristic epithet for Satan
great commander
eastern epithet for Satan
great sultan
truthful epithet for Satan
Th’infernal serpent
militaristic epithet for God
the conqueror
false idea of the autocratic ruling of heaven
tyranny of Heav’n
Satan before death
Satan stood/ unterrified and like a comet burned
mythological creature used to describe Satan’s size
that sea-beast leviathan
where’s Satan put his shield
behind him cast
angels like a classical army looking all pretty
they move in perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood
angels making a ton of noise now
clashed on their sounding shields the din of war
all angels’ thoughts and creations whilst Satan is away are
vain wisdom all and false philosophy
