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Into this wild abyss,
The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 910.
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To compare
Great things with small.[230:1]
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 921.
O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,
With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,
And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 948.
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
Confusion worse confounded.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 995.
So he with difficulty and labour hard
Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1021.
And fast by, hanging in a golden chain,
This pendent world, in bigness as a star
Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1051.
Hail holy light! offspring of heav'n first-born.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 1.
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 11.
Thoughts that voluntary move
Harmonious numbers.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 37.
Thus with the year
Seasons return; but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;
But cloud instead, and ever-during dark
Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men
Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair
Presented with a universal blank
Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd,
And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 40.
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 99.
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
With joy and love triumphing.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 337.
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Dark with excessive bright.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 380.
Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars,
White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 474.
Since call'd
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 495.
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 686.
The hell within him.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 20.
Now conscience wakes despair
That slumber'd,—wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and what must be
Worse.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23.
At whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminish'd heads.[231:1]
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 34.
A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 55.
Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 73.
Such joy ambition finds.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 92.
Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 96.
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost.
Evil, be thou my good.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 108.
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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew,
Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 122.
Sabean odours from the spicy shore
Of Araby the Blest.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 162.
And on the Tree of Life,
The middle tree and highest there that grew,
Sat like a cormorant.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 194.
A heaven on earth.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 208.
Flowers worthy of paradise.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 241.
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.[232:1]
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 256.
Proserpine gathering flowers,
Herself a fairer flower.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 269.
For contemplation he and valour form'd,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.
His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 297.
Implied
Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway,
And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,—
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 307.
Adam the goodliest man of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 323.
And with necessity,
The tyrant's plea,[232:2] excus'd his devilish deeds.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 393.
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As Jupiter
On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds
That shed May flowers.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 499.
Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 506.
Live while ye may,
Yet happy pair.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 533.
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung;
Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament
With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Rising in clouded majesty, at length
Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 598.
The timely dew of sleep.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 614.
With thee conversing I forget all time,
All seasons, and their change,—all please alike.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun
When first on this delightful land he spreads
His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,
Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth
After soft showers; and sweet the coming on
Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent night
With this her solemn bird and this fair moon,
And these the gems of heaven, her starry train:
But neither breath of morn when she ascends
With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun
On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower,
Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers,
Nor grateful ev'ning mild, nor silent night
[234]With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon
Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 639.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 677.
In naked beauty more adorn'd,
More lovely than Pandora.[234:1]
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 713.
Eas'd the putting off
These troublesome disguises which we wear.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 739.
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 750.
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 800.
Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 810.
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 830.
Abash'd the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 846.
All hell broke loose.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 918.
Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 987.
The starry cope
Of heaven.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 992.
Fled
Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 1014.
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime
Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl,
When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep
Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 1.
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Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld
Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep,
Shot forth peculiar graces.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 13.
My latest found,
Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 18.
Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 71.
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 153.
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,
If better thou belong not to the dawn.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 166.
A wilderness of sweets.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 294.
Another morn
Ris'n on mid-noon.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 310.
So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 331.
Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 449.
The bright consummate flower.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 481.
Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 601.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 637.
Satan; so call him now, his former name
Is heard no more in heaven.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 658.
Midnight brought on the dusky hour
Friendliest to sleep and silence.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 667.
Innumerable as the stars of night,
Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 745.
So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found;
Among the faithless, faithful only he.
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 896.
Morn,
Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand
Unbarr'd the gates of light.
Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 2.
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Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought
The better fight.
Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 29.
Arms on armour clashing bray'd
Horrible discord, and the madding wheels
Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise
Of conflict.
Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 209.
Spirits that live throughout,
Vital in every part, not as frail man,
In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins,
Cannot but by annihilating die.
Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 345.
Far off his coming shone.
Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 768.
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd
To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days,
On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.
Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 24.
Still govern thou my song,
Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 30.
Heaven open'd wide
Her ever during gates, harmonious sound,
On golden hinges moving.
Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 205.
Hither, as to their fountain, other stars
Repairing, in their golden urns draw light.
Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 364.
Now half appear'd
The tawny lion, pawing to get free
His hinder parts.
Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 463.
Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 507.
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars,—as stars to thee appear
Seen in the galaxy, that milky way
Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest
Powder'd with stars.
Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 577.
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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he awhile
Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 1.
There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 21.
And grace that won who saw
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