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Paradise Lost Quotes Flashcards

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“All good…” Satan

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“All good to me becomes bane, and in Heaven much worse would be my state”

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“With heavenly…” Satan

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“With heavenly spoils, our spoils: what he decreed he effected”

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“Revenge…” Satan

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“Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils”

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“Fearless…” Satan

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“Fearless unfeared”

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“Now when…” Satan

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“Now when as sacred light began to drawn in Eden on the humid flowers, that breathed their morning incense”

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“His nostrils…” Satan

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“his nostrils fill with grateful smell, forth came the human pair and joined their vocal worship to the choir”

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“Still to tend…” Eve

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“Still to tend plant, herb and flower. Our pleasant task enjoined, but till more hands aid us, the work under our labour grows”

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“One night…” Eve

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“One night or two with wanton growth derides tending to wild”

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“Th’hour…” Eve

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“Th’hour of supper comes unearned”

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“Leave not…” Adam

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“Leave not the faithful side that gave thee being, still shades thee and protects.”

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“Not diffident…” Adam

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“Not diffident of thee do I dissuade thy absence from my sight, but to avoid th’attempt itself, intended by our foe”

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“What hither…” Satan

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“What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste of pleasure”

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“She fair…” Satan

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“She fair, divinely fair, fit love for gods”

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“His head crested…”

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“His head crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; with burnished neck of verdant gold, erect amidst his circling spires”

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“Hermione and…”

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“Hermione and Cadmus, or the god in Epidaurus; nor to which transformed Ammonian Jove, or Capitoline was seen, he was with Olympias”

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“His torturous…”

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“His torturous train curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve, to lure her eye”

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“Of her attention…”

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“of her attention gained, with serpent tongue organic, or impulse of vocal air, his fraudulent temptation thus began”

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“Wonder not…” Satan

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“Wonder not, sovereign mistress”

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“Thee all living…” Satan

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“Thee all living things gaze on, all things thine by gift, and thy celestial beauty”

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“A goddess…” Satan

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“A goddess among gods, adored and served by angels numberless”

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“… of this fair world” Satan

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“Empress of this fair word:

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“When from the boughs…” Satan

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“When from the boughs a savoury adore blown, grateful to appetite, more pleased my sense”

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“To satisfy…” Satan

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“To satisfy the sharp desire I had of tasting those fair apples”

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“Quickened at the scent…” Satan

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“Quickened at the scent of that alluring Fruit, urged me so keen”

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“Fruitless…” Eve

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“Fruitless to me, though fruit be here to excess”

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“Wondrous indeed…” Eve

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“Wondrous indeed, if cause of such effects. But of this Tree we may not taste nor touch; God so commanded”

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“O sacred…” Satan

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“O sacred, wise, and wisdom-giving plant, mother of science, now I feel thy power within me clear”

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“Queen…” Satan

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“Queen of this universe, do not believe those rigid threats of death; ye shall not die: How should ye? by the Fruit? it gives you life to knowledge.”

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“Goddess…” Satan

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“Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste.”

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“Fixed on…”

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“Fixed on the fruit she gazed, which to behold might tempt alone”

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“For good…” Eve

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“For good unknown, sure is not had, or had and yet unknown, is as not had at all.”

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“How dies…” Eve

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“How dies the serpent? he hath eaten and lives, and knowns, and speaks, and reasons, and discerns, irrational till then”

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“What hinders…” Eve

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“What hinders then to reach, and feed at once both body and mind?”

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“Her rash…”

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“Her rash hand in evil hour forth reaching to the Fruit, she plucked, she ate”

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“O sovereign…” Eve

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“O sovereign, virtuous, precious of all trees in Paradise”

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“In female…” Eve

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“In female sex, the more to draw his love and render me more equal”

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“Adam, soon…”

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“Adam, soon as he heard the fatal trespass done by Eve, amazed, astride stood and back, while horror chill ran through his veins”

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“Defaced…” Adam

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“Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote?”

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“Rather how hast…” Adam

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“Rather how hast thou yielded to transgress the strict forbiddance, how to violate the sacred Fruit forbidden!”

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“How can…” Adam

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“How can I live without thee, how forgo thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined, to live again in these wild woods forlorn?”

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“So saying…”

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“So saying, she embraced him, and for joy tenderly wept”

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“She gave him…”

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“She gave him of that fair enticing Fruit with liberal hand: he scrupled not to eat against his better knowledge, not deceived, but fondly overcome with female charm”

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“Sky loured…”

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“Sky loured, and muttering thunder, some sad drops wept at completing of the moral Sin”

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“He on Eve…”

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“He on Eve began to cast lascivious eyes, she his as wantonly repaid; in lust they burn”

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“Their minds…”

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“Their minds how darkened; innocence, that as a veil had shadowed them from knowing ill”

46
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“Some tree…”

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Some tree whose broad smooth leaves together sewn and girded on our loins, may cover round those middle parts, that this new comer, Shame, there sit not”

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“To gird…”

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“To gird their waist, vain covering if to hide their guilt and dreaded shame”

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“But high winds…”

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“But high winds worse within began to rise, high passions, anger, hate, mistrust, suspicion, discord, and shook sore their inward state of mind”

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“Hadst thou…” Eve

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“Hadst thou been there, or here th’attempt, thou couldst not have discerned fraud in the serpent, speaking as he spake”

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“Was I to…” Eve

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“Was I to have never parted from thy side?”

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“Is this the love…” Adam

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“Is this the love, is this the recompense of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve, expressed immutable when thou wert lost, not I, who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss, yet willingly chose rather death with thee”

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