Paradise Lost quotes Flashcards

1
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“Bent on man’s destruction”

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Narrator Book IX

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2
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“He rode with darkness”

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Narrator Book IX

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3
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“The serpent subtlest beast of all the field”

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Narrator Book IX

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4
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“Dark suggestions”

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Narrator Book IX

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5
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“The more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me”

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Satan Book IX

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6
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“For only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”

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Satan Book IX

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7
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“Man he made, and for him he built this magnificent world”

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Satan Book IX

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8
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“Dark intent”

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Satan Book IX

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9
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“What will not ambition and revenge descend to”

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Satan Book IX

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10
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“The work under our labour grows, luxurious by restraint”

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Eve Book IX

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11
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“Wanton growth”

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Eve Book IX

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12
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“Let us divide our labours”

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Eve Book IX

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13
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“What malicious foe envying our happiness”

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Adam Book IX

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14
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“Leave not the faithful side that gave thee being”

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Adam Book IX

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15
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“Safest and seemliest by her husband stays”

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Adam Book IX

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16
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“The tree is not as we are told .. but of divine effect to open eyes”

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Eve Book IX

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17
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Eating the fruit has caused her to grow “up to godhead”

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Eve Book IX

18
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“defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote?”

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Adam Book IX

19
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“How can I live without thee”

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Adam Book IX

20
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“Our state cannot be severed, we are one, one flesh”

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Adam Book IX

21
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“Against his better knowledge, not deceived”

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Narrator Book IX

22
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“The mortal sin original”

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Narrator Book IX

23
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“Carnal desire inflaming”

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Narrator Book IX

24
Q

“In lust they burn”

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Narrator Book IX

25
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“Soon found their eyes how opened, and their minds how darkened; innocence, that as a veil had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone”

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Narrator Book IX

26
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“Our faces evident the signs of foul concupiscence”

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Adam Book IX

27
Q

“Why didst not thou the head command me absolutely not to go”

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Eve Book IX

28
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“Man, with strength entire, and free will armed”

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Narrator Book X

29
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“From her had I could suspect no ill”

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Adam Book X

30
Q

“The serpent me beguiled and I did eat”

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Eve Book X

31
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“Upon thy belly”

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the Son (Satan’s punishment) Book X

32
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“While Satan our great author”

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Sin Book X

33
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“Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds”

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Sin Book X

34
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“Of Satan (for I glory in the name, antagonist of heaven’s almighty King)”

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Sin Book X

35
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“The sound of public scorn”

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Narrator (when all the devils become serpents) Book X

36
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“Triumph to shame”

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Narrator (Satan) Book X

37
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“Bad woman”

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Adam Book X

38
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“Out of my sight, thou serpent”

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Adam (about Eve) Book X

39
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“Childless thou art, childless remain”

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Eve Book X

40
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“To die the shortest choosing”

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Eve (take the power back by dying) Book X

41
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“Our foe shall scape his punishment ordained, and we instead shall double ours upon our heads”

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Adam (Satan wins if they die) Book X