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"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 16.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As far as angels' ken."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 59.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 62.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 65.
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"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th' unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 105.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 157.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And out of good still to find means of evil."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 165.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors!"
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 249.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 253.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 261.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 275.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 292.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 302.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!"
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 330.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 423.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Execute their airy purposes."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 430.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 500.
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"Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 536.
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"Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds: At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 540.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 549.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 591.
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"In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 597.
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"Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 619.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 648.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 679.
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"Let none admire That riches grow in hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 690.
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"Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 710.
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"From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,-- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 742.
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"Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 781.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assur'd us."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 39.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 44.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Rather than be less, Car'd not to be at all."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 47.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"My sentence is for open war."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 51.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 75.
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"When the scourge Inexorable and the torturing hour Call us to penance."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 90.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Which, if not victory, is yet revenge."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 105.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 112.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 139.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night?"
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 146.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"His red right hand."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 174.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 185.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The never-ending flight Of future days."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 221.
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"Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 274.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 300.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The palpable obscure."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 406.
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"Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light."
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 432.
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