Paradise Lost Quote Bank:
Satan
‘the most I see pleasures [...] much more I feel torment’
‘none of these find place & refuge’ byronic hero or malcontent
‘dark intent I bring’
‘vallie,river, woods’
‘for onely in destroying I find ease’
‘constrained to a beast & mixt with bestial slime’
‘but what will not ambition & revenge descend to’
‘mediated fraud and malice’ ‘fraudulent temptation’
‘bent on man’s destruction’
‘much hee the place admir’d, the person more’
‘but all pleasure to destroy’
‘enemie of mankind’
‘lick’d the ground whereon she trod’
‘he glad of her attention gaind’
‘souvran mistress’ ‘thy celestial beautie’ ‘universally admir’d’ ‘godress among gods’
‘then sought where to lie hid’
‘empress of this fair world’
‘her heavenly form’
‘angelic, but more soft and feminine’
‘her graceful innocence’ (tragedy genre, original name, link to postlapsarian paradise)
‘can envy dwell in heavenly breast’
‘subjected to his service angel wings’
‘revenge at first though sweet ... on itself recoils’
‘queen of this universe’
, ‘stupidly good’
"fairest unsupported flower’
‘Ye shall not die; how should you?"
‘Deterrd not from achieving what might leade / To happier life, knowledge of Good and Evil; / Of
good, how just?
Eve
‘let us divide our labours’ ‘looks intervene and smiles ... which intermits our dayes work’
‘adam, misthought of her to thee so dear?’
"expectation high of knowledge’ - eve’s harmatia is her desire for knowledge
‘how are we happie, still in fear of harm?’
‘left so imperfect by the maker wise?’
‘frail is our happiness, if this be so’
‘from her husbands hand / soft she withdrew’
‘with thy permission then’
‘fairest unsupported flower’
‘her rash hand in evil hour’
‘she pluckd she eat’
‘engorged without restraint’
‘immortal eve’
‘what is faith, love and virtue unassaid’
‘render me more equal’
‘Confirm'd then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe’
‘"Adam wedded to another Eve"’ - jealousy motivates her to make adam fall too
Adam
‘sole eve, associate sole’
‘fulfil the work which here God hath assign’d us’
‘nothing lovelier can be found in woman than to study household good’
Satan
‘the most I see pleasures [...] much more I feel torment’
‘none of these find place & refuge’ byronic hero or malcontent
‘dark intent I bring’
‘vallie,river, woods’
‘for onely in destroying I find ease’
‘constrained to a beast & mixt with bestial slime’
‘but what will not ambition & revenge descend to’
‘mediated fraud and malice’ ‘fraudulent temptation’
‘bent on man’s destruction’
‘much hee the place admir’d, the person more’
‘but all pleasure to destroy’
‘enemie of mankind’
‘lick’d the ground whereon she trod’
‘he glad of her attention gaind’
‘souvran mistress’ ‘thy celestial beautie’ ‘universally admir’d’ ‘godress among gods’
‘then sought where to lie hid’
‘empress of this fair world’
‘her heavenly form’
‘angelic, but more soft and feminine’
‘her graceful innocence’ (tragedy genre, original name, link to postlapsarian paradise)
‘can envy dwell in heavenly breast’
‘subjected to his service angel wings’
‘revenge at first though sweet ... on itself recoils’
‘queen of this universe’
, ‘stupidly good’
"fairest unsupported flower’
‘Ye shall not die; how should you?"
‘Deterrd not from achieving what might leade / To happier life, knowledge of Good and Evil; / Of
good, how just?
Eve
‘let us divide our labours’ ‘looks intervene and smiles ... which intermits our dayes work’
‘adam, misthought of her to thee so dear?’
"expectation high of knowledge’ - eve’s harmatia is her desire for knowledge
‘how are we happie, still in fear of harm?’
‘left so imperfect by the maker wise?’
‘frail is our happiness, if this be so’
‘from her husbands hand / soft she withdrew’
‘with thy permission then’
‘fairest unsupported flower’
‘her rash hand in evil hour’
‘she pluckd she eat’
‘engorged without restraint’
‘immortal eve’
‘what is faith, love and virtue unassaid’
‘render me more equal’
‘Confirm'd then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe’
‘"Adam wedded to another Eve"’ - jealousy motivates her to make adam fall too
Adam
‘sole eve, associate sole’
‘fulfil the work which here God hath assign’d us’
‘nothing lovelier can be found in woman than to study household good’
