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“But thou know’st,
Whoever judged, the worst on me must light,
When time shall be, for so I undertook
Before thee” X, 72-5

“To judgment he proceeded on the accused
Serpent though brute…put
Enmity, and between thine and her seed” 164-80

“For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
So judged he man, both judge and saviour sent” 208-9

“And me with thee hath ruined, for with thee
Certain my resolution is to die” IX, 906-7

“He scrupled not to eat
Against his better knowledge, not deceived,
But fondly overcome with female charm.” 997-9

“Innocence, that as a veil
Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone” 1054-5

“Their inward state of mind…now tossed and turbulent” 1125-6

“Thus they in mutual accusation spent” 1187

“…and into fraud
Led Eve our credulous mother” IX, 643-4

“As when of old some orator renowned
In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence
Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed” 670-3

“…whatever thing death be…” 695

“Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate” 780-1

“While horror chill
Ran through his veins” 890-1

“But the hot hell that always in him burns,
Though in mid-heaven, soon ended his delight” IX, 466-7

“…to her ruin now I tend.
So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed
In serpent” 493-5

“Language of man pronounced
By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?” 553-4

“So talked the spirited sly snake; and Eve
Yet more amazed unwary thus replied.” 613-4

“To short absence I could yield.
For solitude sometimes is best society” IX, 248-9

“Secure from outward force; within himself
The danger lies, yet lies within his power:
Against his will he can receive no harm.
But God left free the will” 348-51

“O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve,
Of thy presumed return! Event perverse!” 404-5

“But I in none of these
Find place or refuge; and the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
Torment within me” IX, 118-21

“For only in destroying I find ease
To my relentless thoughts” 129-30

“Man he made, and for him built
Magnificent this world, and earth his seat” 152-3

“Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils,
Let it; I reck not” 171-2

“And in herself complete, so well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest…best;
Authority and reason on her wait,
As one intended first, not after made” VIII, 548-55

“Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges” 589-90

“Express they, by looks only, or do they mix
Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch?” 616-7

“To stand or fall
Free in thine own arbitrament it lies” 640-1

“to tell how human life began
Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?” VIII, 250-1

“But who I was, or where, or from what cause,
Knew not” 270-1

“In solitude
What happiness, who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying, what contentment find?” 364-6

“And find thee knowing…of thyself,
Expressing well the spirit within thee free” 438-40

“Be assured,
Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self” 449-50

“…and by his countenance seemed
Entering on studious thoughts abstruse” VIII, 39-40

“O when meet now
Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?” 56-7

“He his fabric of the heavens
Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move
His laughter at their quaint opinions” 76-8

“What if the sun
Be centre to the world” 122-3

“Nor less think we in heaven of thee on earth” 224

“There wanted yet the masterwork,the end
Of all yet done; a creature who not prone
And brute as other creatures, but endued
With sanctity of reason, might erect
His stature, and upright with front serene
Govern the rest, self-knowing…” VII, 505-10