John Milton Quotes About Satan

Quotes about: Satan

• Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

  John Milton

  Peers, Satan, Pandemonium

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 756 (1667)

• Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

  John Milton

  Death, War, Paradise

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 263 (1667)

• Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

  John Milton

  Names, Heaven, Satan

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 658

• Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

  John Milton

  War, Fire, Hair

  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.145

• The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

  John Milton

  Night, Hands, Black

  John Milton (1832). “Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author”, p.56

• So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Giving, Silence

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.65, BookCaps Study Guides

• Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

  John Milton

  Men, Wings, Design

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.629-32.

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