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"...all places else
Inhospitable appear and desolate..." XI, 305-6

"...his omnipresence fills
Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives" 336-7

"Of death, and many are the ways that lead
To his grim cave, all dismal" 468-9

"By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more
In meats and drinks..." 472-3

"What misery the inabstinence of Eve
Shall bring on men..." 476-7

"but delayed to strike, though oft invoked" 492

"Forever, to remove him I decree,
And send him from the garden forth to till..." XI, 96-7

"...though sorrowing, yet in peace:
And on the east side of the garden..." 117-8

"But the field
To labour calls us now with sweat imposed,
Though after sleepless night; for see the morn,
All unconcerned with our unrest..." 171-4

"Lament not Eve, but patiently resign
What justly thou hast lost..." 287-8

"...with labour I must earn
My bread; what harm? Idleness had been worse" X, 1054-5

"The race of mankind drowned, before the shrine
of Themis stood devout" XI, 13-4

"...man is become
To know both good and evil, since his taste
Of that defended fruit; but let him boast
His knowledge of good lost, and evil got,
Happier, had it sufficed him to have known
Good by itself" XI, 84-9

"How can he exercise
Wrath without end on man whom death must end?
Can he make deathless death?" X, 796-8

"That death be not one stroke, as I supposed,
Bereaving sense, but endless misery
From this day onward..." 809-11

"...but strive
in offices of love, how we may lighten
Each other's burden in our share of woe;
Since this day's death denounced...
no sudden, but a slow-paced evil" 959-63

“For now were all transformed
Alike, to serpents all as accessories
To his bold riot: dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the hall” X, 519-22

“in Paradise the hellish pair
Too soon arrived, Sin there in power before,
Once actual, now in body, and to dwell
Habitual habitant; behind her Death” 585-8

“To bring in change
of seasons to each clime; else had the spring
Perpetual smiled on earth” 677-9

“Methinks I feel new strength within me rise,
Wings growing, and dominion given me large
Beyond this deep” X, 243-5

“But when he saw descend
The Son of God to judge them terrified
He fled…” 337-9

“Thence gathered his own doom, which understood,
Not instant, but of future time.” 343-4

“And made one realm
Hell and this world” 391-2

“Their mighty chief returned: loud was the acclaim” 455

“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