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  • And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

    Bogs   Bitter   Fierce  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 598
  • Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

    Crow   Devil   Awful  
    John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.348
  • O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

    War   Night   Men  
    John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing
  • Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

    Men   Devil   Shame  
    John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.79
  • So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

    Hope   Fear   Farewell  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108
  • 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

    John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.36
  • Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

    Happiness   May   Pairs  
    John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103
  • This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

    Light   Darkness   Horror  
    John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.94
  • Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

    Time   Fire   Elements  
    1665 Mammon. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.274-7.
  • Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

    Death   War   Paradise  
    Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 263 (1667)
  • Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

    Nature   War   Night  
    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.159
  • Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 256
  • And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

    Stars   Moon   World  
    John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.154
  • The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

    Heaven   Despair   Spirit  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 44
  • A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

    Time   Army   Ice  
    John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”
  • Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

    John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122
  • Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

    Hate   Lucifer   Grows  
    1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.98-9.
  • Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

    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.297
  • God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

    Time   Law   Forget  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 637
  • A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 55
  • Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

    Envy   Sin   Lord  
    John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education
  • Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

    Sweet   Morning   Bird  
    Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 639 (1667)
  • For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

    Sweet   Eye   Grace  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 297
  • Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

    Way   Paradise   Hell  
    Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)
  • Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

    Punishment   Wings   Add  
    John Milton (1832). “Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]”, p.43
  • Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

    Fate   Yield   Judging  
    John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34
  • The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

    John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.218
  • So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

    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.170
  • 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
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