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  • To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

    John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.14
  • Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

    Sex   Enmity   Spirit  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423
  • And out of good still to find means of evil.

    Mean   Evil   Find Me  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 165
  • All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

    Courage   Revenge   Hate  
    Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 105 (1667)
  • A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

    Flames   Light   Sight  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61
  • As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

    Music   Wind   Breathe  
    John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.82
  • So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

    Mother   Snakes   Roots  
    John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.507, Pearson Education
  • Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

    Powerful   Military   War  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 648
  • And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

    Wine   Son   Night  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 500
  • Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

    Death   War   Paradise  
    Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 263 (1667)
  • Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

    Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 756 (1667)
  • Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

    John Milton (1850). “Paradise Lost”, p.21
  • Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

    Sweet   Revenge   Long  
    John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.153
  • The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

    Work   Luxury   Restraint  
    John Milton, John Aikin (1806). “Poetical Works: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical”, p.92
  • Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 249
  • For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

    Sex   Essence   Enmity  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423
  • Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

    May   Riches   Soil  
    Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)
  • 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.

    Dream   Moon   Sides  
    John Milton, Henry Stebbing (1836). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.25
  • Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

    Art   Loss   Ribs  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 914
  • He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

    Moving   Science   Artist  
    John Milton (1855). “The complete poetical works of John Milton, with life”, p.10
  • 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.

    Summer   Stars   Fall  
    Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 742 (1667)
  • Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

    Way   Paradise   Hell  
    Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)
  • 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.

    Crazy   Ambition   Mad  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261
  • Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

    Arches   Shade   Brooks  
    John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.45
  • 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. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

    Book   Dark   Men  
    Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 22 (1667) See Housman 5; Milton 49
  • For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

    Hypocrite   Angel   Men  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 682
  • Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

    Hope   Peace   Doleful  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61
  • And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

    Revenge   Power   May  
    John Milton (1850). “Paradise Lost”, p.23
  • What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

    Hope   Despair   May  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 190
  • Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

    1665 Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.383-4.
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