PL Quotes - Milton as narrator Flashcards
Satan - The argument
- ‘With meditated guile’
- ‘With many wiles and arguments’
Milton as narrator
5 “I now must change / these notes to tragic”
24 “unpremeditated verse”
42 “higher argument”
835 “low reverence done”
Satan - Soliloquy (p1)
54………now improved / In meditated fraud and malice, bent / On Man’s destruction………”
69 “unsuspected way”
Satan - Soliloquy (p2)
87 “The serpent subtlest beast of all the field”
89 “fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud”
98 “His bursting passion into plaints thus poured:”
Satan - Soliloquy (p3)
187 “Fearless unfeared he slept…”
190 “act intelligential”
Adam - talking to Eve (p1)
225 “to whom mild answer Adam thus replied”
290 “To whom with healing words Adam thus replied”
Eve - talking to Adam (p1)
271 “To whom the virgin majesty of Eve, / As one who loves, and some unkindness meets, / With sweet austere composure thus replied”
Adam and Eve
399 “Oft he to her his charge of quick return,
Repeated, she to him as oft engaged”
Eve - being seduced by Satan (p1)
404 “O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve”
411 “Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss”
432 “fairest unsupported flower”
456 “the sweet recess of Eve”
Satan - seducing Eve (p1)
409 “with hellish rancour imminent”
416 “his purposed prey”
424 “Beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies”
436 “Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen”
Satan - seducing Eve (p2.1)
461 “with rapine sweet”
464 “the evil one abstracted stood / From his own evil, and for the time remained / Stupidly good..”
470 “of pleasure not for him ordained”
Satan - seducing Eve (p2.2)
494 “So spake the enemy of Mankind
503 “pleasing was his shape”
Satan - seducing Eve (p2.3)
531 “His fraudulent temptation thus began”
549 “So glozed the tempter and his proem tuned”
567 “To whom the guileful tempter thus replied”
Eve - being seduced by Satan (p2)
552 “Not unamazed”
644 “our credulous mother”
659 “To whom thus Eve yet sinless”
Satan / Eve (p1)
613 “So talked the spirited sly snake”
“and Eve / Yet more unwary thus replied”
Satan - seducing Eve (p3.1)
645 “root of all our woe”
678 “The tempter all impassioned thus began”
Satan - seducing Eve (p3.2)
733 “his words replete with guile”
“Into her heart too easy entrance won”
737 “his persuasive words, impregned / With Reason
Adam - talking to Eve (p2)
318 “So spake domestic Adam in his care / And matrimonial love…”
342 “To whom thus Adam fervently replied”
Eve - talking to Adam (p2)
321 “her reply with accent sweet renewed”
385 “Thus saying, from her husband’s hand her hand / Soft she withdrew,……”
Eve - eating the fruit
“So saying, her rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she plucked she ate”
Eve and Adam - after Eve eats the fruit
Eve: “low reverence done”
Adam: “he the faltering measure felt”
Eve - explaining why she ate the fruit to Adam
“Thus Eve with countenance blithe her story told; / But in her cheek distemper flushing glowed”
Adam - being seduced by Eve (p1)
“Submitting to what seemed remediless”
“Thus in calm mood his words to Eve he turned”
Adam - being seduced by Eve (p2)
“he scrupled not to eat”
“fondly overcome with female charm”
Adam and Eve - after eating apple (p1)
1015 “in lust they burn”
1064 “Confounded long they sate, as stricken mute”
1114 “O how unlike / To that first naked glory”
Adam and Eve - after eating apple (p2)
1121 “…….nor only tears
Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within
Began to rise, high passions, anger, hate,
Mistrust, suspicion, discord, and shook sore
Their inward state of mind,”
Adam - after eating apple
1132 “Adam, estranged in look and altered style
Adam and Eve - after eating apple (p3)
1187 “Thus they in mutual accusation spent / The fruitless hours”
Satan / Eve (p2)
644 “So glister’d the dire snake, and into fraud led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree of Prohibition, root of all our woe”
