Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes - Page 3

• For no falsehood can endure
  Touch of celestial temper.

  John Milton

  Lying, Endure, Temper

  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.296

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• This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

  John Milton

  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

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• 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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• 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.

  John Milton

  Time, Army, Ice

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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• 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.

  John Milton

  Time, Law, Forget

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 637

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• 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.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 55

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• Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

  John Milton

  Pain, Ease, Void

  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.241

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• 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.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Eye, Grace

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 297

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• Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

  John Milton

  Wise, Thinking, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 172

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