Best of Paradise Lost Quotes
‘That brought into this world a world of woe'
Satan is "full of anguish" (62)
"The Serpent subtlest beast of all the field"(86) Sibilance.
"But I in none of these find place or refuge" (118-119)
"For only in destroying I find ease" (129)
"O foul descent! That I who erst contended with gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a
beast, and mixed with bestial slime," (164)
'nothing lovelier can be found // In woman, than to study household good, // And good works in her
husband to promote' line 233-234
'Whether his first design be to withdraw // Our fealty from God, or to disturb // Conjugal love' line
261
'For such thou art, from sin and blame entire' line 290 Adam speaking to Eve
'O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve' line 404 page 74
'so much hath hell debased, and pain // Enfeebled me' line 487-488
'into fraud // Led Eve our credulous mother' 644 -- contrast to 'Machiavellian' Isabella
'venturing higher than my lot' 690
'into her heart too easy entrance won' 734
Greedily, she engorged without restraint' 791
'and knew not eating death' 792
'our great Forbidder' 816
'keep the odds of knowledge in my power' 820
'A thing not undesirable, sometime // Superior; for inferior who is free?' 824-825
'Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote?' 901
'Nor can I think that God, Creator wise // Though threatening, will in earnest so destroy // Us his
prime creatures,' 938-940
"Against his better knowledge, not deceived, But fondly overcome with female charm" 998-999
‘That brought into this world a world of woe'
Satan is "full of anguish" (62)
"The Serpent subtlest beast of all the field"(86) Sibilance.
"But I in none of these find place or refuge" (118-119)
"For only in destroying I find ease" (129)
"O foul descent! That I who erst contended with gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a
beast, and mixed with bestial slime," (164)
'nothing lovelier can be found // In woman, than to study household good, // And good works in her
husband to promote' line 233-234
'Whether his first design be to withdraw // Our fealty from God, or to disturb // Conjugal love' line
261
'For such thou art, from sin and blame entire' line 290 Adam speaking to Eve
'O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve' line 404 page 74
'so much hath hell debased, and pain // Enfeebled me' line 487-488
'into fraud // Led Eve our credulous mother' 644 -- contrast to 'Machiavellian' Isabella
'venturing higher than my lot' 690
'into her heart too easy entrance won' 734
Greedily, she engorged without restraint' 791
'and knew not eating death' 792
'our great Forbidder' 816
'keep the odds of knowledge in my power' 820
'A thing not undesirable, sometime // Superior; for inferior who is free?' 824-825
'Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote?' 901
'Nor can I think that God, Creator wise // Though threatening, will in earnest so destroy // Us his
prime creatures,' 938-940
"Against his better knowledge, not deceived, But fondly overcome with female charm" 998-999
