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“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

“He with his whole posterity must die,
Die he or justice must; unless for him
Some other able, and as willing, pay
The rigid satisfaction, death for death” III, 209-12

“now to death I yield, and am his due,
All that of me can die, yet that debt paid,
Thou wilt not leave me in the grave…
But I shall rise victorious” 246-50

“how dear
To me are all my works, nor man the least
Though last created” 276-8

"...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" III, 41-44

"Shine inward...that I may see and tell
Of things invisible to mortal sight." 52-5

"...or their fate,
As if predestination overruled
Their will..." 113-5

"...they choose; for so
I formed them free, and free they must remain..." 123-4

“Illimitable ocean without bound,
Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height,
And time and place are lost…” II, 892-4

“…soon after when man fell,
strange alteration! Sin and death a main
Following his track, such was the will of heaven” 1023-25

“And fast by a golden chain
This pendant world, in bigness as a star
Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.” 1051-3