Paradise Lost Book 9 Quotes

• Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

  John Milton

  Loss, Men, Eden

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

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• Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

  John Milton

  Flesh, States, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 957

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• The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
  Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
  Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

  John Milton

  Husband, Wife, Danger

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.258

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• So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

  John Milton

  Mother, Snakes, Roots

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.507, Pearson Education

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

  John Milton

  Envy, Sin, Lord

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education

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• Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

  John Milton

  Earth, Woe, Losing

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 780

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• Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

  John Milton

  Art, Loss, Ribs

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 914

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• That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

  John Milton

  Time, Revenge, Hate

  1665 Satan gazes upon Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.463-6.

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• Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Revenge, Long

  John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.153

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• Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
  To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  John Milton

  Crazy, Ambition, Mad

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

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• In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

  John Milton

  Change, Fear, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 594

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• So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Hope, Fear, Farewell

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• Who aspires must down as low
  As high he soar'd.

  John Milton

  Lows, Soar, Aspire

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.147

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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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• O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

  John Milton

  Sweet, Art, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 896

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• Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

  John Milton

  Arguing, Fame, Know Me

  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

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• All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

  John Milton

  Courage, Revenge, Hate

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 105 (1667)

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• Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

  John Milton

  Crow, Devil, Awful

  John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.348

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• Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

  John Milton

  Years, Wings, Age

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 44

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• Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Husband, Study

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.232-4.

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• Hope elevates, and joy
  Brightens his crest.

  John Milton

  Hope, Joy

  John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.179

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• Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

  John Milton

  Long, Late

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 21

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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  May, Riches, Soil

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

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• Where peace
  And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
  That comes to all.

  John Milton

  Hope, Peace, Doleful

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

  John Milton

  Fall, Lucifer, Arise

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.43

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