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“…but in those hearts
Love unlibidinous reigned, nor jealousy
Was understood, the injured lover’s hell.” V, 448-50

“…whence the soul
Reason receives, and reason is her being,
Discursive, or intuitive; discourse
Is oftest yours” 486-9

“In contemplation of created things
By steps we may ascend to God” 511-12

“…ordained thy will
By nature free, not overruled by fate
Inextricable…” 526-8

“Them thus employed beheld
With pity heaven’s high king…” V, 219-20

“Happiness in his power left free to will,
Left to his own free will, his will though free,
Yet mutable; whence warn him to beware
He swerve not too secure…
By violence no, for that shall be withstood,
But by deceit and lies; this let him know,
Lest wilfully transgressing he pretend
Surprised, unadmonished, unforewarned.” 235-45

“…for his sleep
was airy light from pure digestion bred.” V, 3-4

“And why not gods of men, since good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows” 71-2

“This uncouth dream, of evil sprung I fear;
Yet evil whence?” 98-9

“…the five senses represent,
She forms imaginations..
Which reason joining or disjoining, frames
All what we affirm or what deny” 104-7

“To us invisible, or dimly seen” 157

“Virtue…saw, and pined
His loss; but chiefly to find here observed
His lustre visibly impaired” IV, 848-50

“Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose?…Courageous chief
The first in flight from pain” 917-21

“And thou sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem
Patron of liberty, who…servilely adored
Heaven’s awful monarch? Wherefore but in hope
To dispossess him, and thy self to reign?” 957-61

“Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires…
And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw” IV, 604-10

“Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity” 618-9

“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen” 677-8

“Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek
No happier state, and know to know no more” 774-5

“Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge
On you who wrong me not for him who wronged.” IV, 386-7

“…shall enjoy their fill
Of bliss on bliss, while I to hell am thrust” 507-8

“By ignorance is that their happy state…
To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt
Equal with gods…” 519-26

“Uriel, gliding through the even
On a sunbeam, swift as a shooting star
In autumn thwarts the night” 555-7

“this first grand thief into God’s fold:
So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.” IV, 192-3

“Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.” 222

“So passed they naked on, nor shunned the sight
Of God or angel, for they thought no ill” 319-20

“…the unwieldy elephant
To make them mirth used all his might, and wreathed
His lithe proboscis…” 345-7

“and from the bottom stir
The hell within him, for within him hell
He brings, and round about him, not from hell
One step no more than from himself can fly
By change of place.” IV, 19-23

“his new delight,
Mankind created, and for him this world.
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost;
Evil be thou my good” 106-110

“Shade above shade, a woody theatre” 141

“That place is earth the seat of man, that light
His day…” III, 724-25

“…but there the neighbouring moon
(So call that opposite fair star) her aid
Timely interposes, and her monthly round
Still ending, still renewing, through mid heaven;
With borrowed light her countenance triform
Hence fills and empties to enlighten the earth,
And in her pale dominion checks the night.” III, 726-32

“With frontispiece of diamond and gold
Embellished, thick with sparkling orient gems
The portal shone, inimitable on earth
By model, or by shading pencil drawn.” III, 506-9

“…whether to dare
The fiend by easy ascent, or aggravate
His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss.” 523-25

“Looks down the wonder at the sudden view
Of all this world at once.” 542-3