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Paradise Lost Quotations Flashcards

1
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Of man’s first…

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disobedience and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree

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2
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Brought death…

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into the world and all our woe

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Sing…

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Heav’nly Muse

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4
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Things unattempted…

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yet in prose or rhyme

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5
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I may assert…

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Eternal Providence/ And justify the ways of God to men

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6
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Against the throne…

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and monarchy of God/ Raised impious war in Heav’n and battle proud/ With vain attempt

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No light…

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but rather darkness visible

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sights of woe/…

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regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace/ And rest can never dwell

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9
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O how unlike…

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the place from whence they fell

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10
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HEAVEN:

happy realms…

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of light/ Clothed with transcendent brightness

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11
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The tyranny…

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Of Heav’n

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12
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Vaunting…

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aloud but racked with deep despair

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13
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Satan is of

‘… size’

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Monstrous size

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14
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With fixèd…

Leviathan

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‘Anchor in his scaly rind’

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15
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All his malice…

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served but to bring forth/ Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy shown/ On man by him seduced

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16
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What did Satan bring upon himself

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confusion, wrath and vengeance

17
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A mind…

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not to be changed by place or time!

18
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Can make a

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Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven

19
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Better to

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Reign in Hell than serve in Heaven

20
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Princes! …

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Potentates! Warriors!

21
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a pitchy cloud…

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/Of locusts warping on the eastern wind

22
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Fallen angels as pagan gods…

To transform/ …

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Off to the image of a brute adorned/ With gay religions full of pomp and gold,/ And devils to adore for deities!

23
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Fallen angels and epic reference

‘Move/ In perfect…

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Phalanx to the Dorian mood

24
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His strength concealed,/…

God

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Which tempted our attempt and wrought our fall

25
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peace is despaired…

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For who can think submission? War then, war/ Open or understood, must be resolved

26
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Clashed…

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On their sounding shields the din of war/ hurling defiance toward the vault of Heav’n

27
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Men on earth:

‘ransacked the center…

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And with impious hands/ Rifled the bowels of their Mother Earth

28
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Angels digging:

Opened into the hill…

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a spacious wound/ And digged out ribs of gold

29
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Metals/ minerals in the soil are

Precious…

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Bane

30
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How did pandemonium form ?

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‘Rose like an exhalation’

31
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Classical architectural elements

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Doric pillars

Golden architrave

32
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Light in pandemonium

Naphtha…

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and asphaltus yielded light/ As from a sky

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