Paradise Lost Quotes Flashcards
Satan: “So spake …
“So spake the enemy of mankind”
Satan’s arrogance: “better …
“better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”
Satan Persuasion: “He spake …
“He spake: and to confirm his words, out-flew / Millions of flaming swords”
Satan: “He …
“Hellish”
Satan’s Manipulation: “lure …
“lure her eye”
Satan: “ple …
“pleasing […] shape”
Satan: “med …
“meditated guile” + “dark intent”
Eve: “perv …
“perverted Eve”
Eve defending Satan: “hadst thou been …
“hadst thou been there, / Or here th’attempt, thou couldst not have discerned / Fraud in the serpent”
Eve: “des …
“despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss”
Eve: “im …
“immortal Eve”
Eve: “sov …
“sovereign mistress” + “Queen
Eve: “she shall …
“she shall be called women, because she was taken out of man”
Adam: “pat ….
“patriarch of mankind”
Adam’s Uxoriousness: “How …
“How can I live without thee?”
Adam: “amazed …
“amazed, / Astonied stood and blank”
Adam: “exempt …
“exempt from wound” + “heroic built”
Adam: “high …
“higher intellectual”
Adam to Eve: “Sole …
“Sole Eve, associate sole”
Eve to Adam: “How little …
“How little weight my word with thee can find”
Eve to Adam: “Offspring …
“Offspring of Heaven and Earth, and all Earth’s lord”
Adam + Eve: “One …
“One flesh, one heart, one soul”
Adam + Eve: “unfeigned …
“unfeigned / Union of mind”
Adam + Eve: “inferior …
“inferior in the mind / And inward faculties”
Adam + Eve: “yielding …
“yielding with coy submission”
Forbidden Tree: “O sov …
“O sov’reign, virtuous, precious of all trees”
Forbidden Tree: “But of this …
“But of this tree we may not taste nor touch”
Temptation: “into her …
“into her heart too cosy entrance won”
Temptation + Sin: “Of man’s first …
“Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose moral taste / brought death into the world, and all our woe”
Temptation + Sin: “The serpent …
“the serpent beguiled me and I did eat”
Blame: “Yet willingly …
“Yet willingly chose rather death with thee”
Blame/Anger: “high passions …
“high passions, anger, hate, / mistrust, suspicion, discord, and shook sore”
Blame: “in mutual …
“in mutual accusations spent / the fruitless hours”
Guilt (lack of): “Forbids …
“Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?”
Corruption: “notes …
“notes to tragic; foul distrust, and breach / Disloyal”
Disobedience: “wilfully …
“wilfully chosen” to disobey God
Questioning God: “How are …
“How are we happy, still in fear of harm”
Loss of morals: “together …
“together went / Into the thickest woods”
Loss of purity: “Both …
“Both good and evil, good lost, and evil got”
Self-Pity: “Is this the …
“Is this the Love, is this the recompense / Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve”
Eve + Adam: “our …
“our reason is our law”
Redemption: “What better …
“What better can we do, than to place / Repairing where he judg’d to”
Satan: “all good …
“all good to me is bane”
Satan’s selfishness/arrogance: Expects …
Expects “Hallelujah[s]” from followers when returned
Regret: “Should …
“Should God create another Eve”
Revenge: “Revenge, at first …
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils”
Imperfection: “Let none admire …
“Let none admire the riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane”
Lack of hope/evilness: “So farewell …
“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good”
Forbidden: “Knowledge …
“Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know”
Despair: “Now conscience …
“Now conscience wakes despair. That slumber’d, wakes the bitter memory of what he was, what is, and what must be worse”
