Paradise Lost Quotes

What is the purpose of the books?

'to justify the ways of God to men'

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Quote on Satan's arrival

'Satan... fearless returned' 'rose satan involved in rising mist'

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How is the snake described

'and found the serpent subtlest beast of all the field'

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Where did the devil enter the snake

'in at his mouth the devil entered'

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Eve wants to split jobs

'Let us divide our labours'

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Quote about joint hands and wilderness

'our joint hands will keep from wilderness with ease'

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Quote about staying with wife through everything

'the wife, where danger and dishonour lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with the worst endures'

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Eve questions their happiness

'How are we happy, still in fear of harm?'

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Eve on their love being untested

'what is faith, love, virtue unassayed alone'

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quote on hands parting

'her husband's hand her hand soft she withdrew'

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Quote on Eve's failure

'O' much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve'

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How is Eve spolied?

'Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss'

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When Satan first spots Eve

'Eve separate he spies'

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Satan's reaction to seeing Eve

'Her graceful innocence' ... 'overawed his malice'

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Eve's description of Satan

'pleasing was his shape, and lovely'

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How does Satan say Eve should be seen

'as a goddess among gods'

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Satan describing how he ate the fruit

'plenty hung tempting so nigh, so pluck and eat my fill I spared not'

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Eve's direction to Satan

'Lead the' said Eve'

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Eve having doubts

'of this Tree we may not taste nor touch; God so commanded'

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Satan's argument for eating the fruit

'ye shall be as gods, knowing both good and evil'

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Satan's last line

'Godess humane, reach then, and freely taste'

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Eve's justification of eating

'what forbids he but to know, forbids us good, forbits us wise?'

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Eve's action of eating

'she plucked, she ate'

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Earth's reaction to Eve's actions

'Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, that all was lost'

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Bliss or woe quote

'I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe'

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The quote with loads of d's

'How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflowered, and now to death deavoted?'

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Eve's argument for Adam to eat the fruit

'Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot may join us, equal joy as equal love'

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After Adam has eaten the fruit they become one

'our state cannot be severed, we are one, one flesh'

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Quote on their eye's

'life augmented, opened eyes, new hopes, new joys'

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Earth's reaction to Adam

'Earth trembled from her entrails, as again in pangs and nature gave a second groan' 'sky... wept at the completing of the mortal Sin'

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Quote after they have sex

'innocence... was gone... naked left/ to guilty shame'

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Quote on their shame

'leaves us naked thus, of honour void/ Of innocence, of faith, of purity'

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Quote on them covering themselves

'vain covering if to hide/ Their guilt and dreaded shame'

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Another feature of nature's reaction

'high winds... shook sore'

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The final state of Adam and Eve

'Thus they in their mutual accusation spent the fruitless hours'

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Satan's quote on pleasures and torment

'The more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel the torment within me'

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Satan's quote on destruction

'For only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts'

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How does Satan arrive?

'wrapt in mist/ Of midnight vapour glide obscure'

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What intent does Satan bring?

'dark intent I bring'

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Who is Satan's revenge guided towards?

'Revenge .. aimed ... on him .. this new favourite of heaven, this man of clay'

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What's the best thing about women?

'For nothing lovelier can be found in woman, than to study household good and good works in her husband promote'

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Eve described as a flower

'Fairest unsupported flower, from her best prop so far, and storm so nigh'

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Stupidly good....

'of enmity disarmed'

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Satan convincing Eve, lots of questions used

'How should you? by the fruit? It gives you life to knowledge; by the threatener?'

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Quote on Satan gaining access to her heart

'Into her heart too easy entrance won'

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Eve's appetite

'waked an eaer appetite, raised by the smell so savoury of that fruit, which with desire.... solicited her longing eye'

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Description of Eve eating

'greedily she engorged without restraint and knew not eating death'

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The effect of the fruit on Eve

'opener mine eyes, dim erst, dilated spirits, ampler heart, and growing up to Godhead'

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2 words to describe Adam's reaction

'horror chill'

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What is Adam's resolution

'certain my resoltuion is to die' 'I with thee have fixed my lot'

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Fire quotations

'Carnal desire inflaming' 'In lust they burn' 'Eve, whose eye darted contagious fire'

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Eyes and minds quotation

'Their eyes how opened, and their minds how darkened'

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3 words to describe their act

'shamed, naked, miserable!'

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How did Adam fail?

'I also erred, in overmuch admirin what seemed in thee so perfect' 'worth in women overtrusting'

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Adam's response to Eve placing the blame on him

'Is this the love, is this the recompence of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve'

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Last line of the poem

'And of their vain contest appeared no end.'

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