"O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies."

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 948.

"With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded."

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 995.

"So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he."

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1021.

"And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon."

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1051.

"Hail holy light! offspring of heav'n first-born."

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 1.

"The rising world of waters dark and deep."

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 11.

"Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers."

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 37.

"Thus with the year Seasons return; 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; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out."

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 40.

"See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing."

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 337.

"Dark with excessive bright."

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 380.

"Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery."

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 474.

"Since call'd The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown."

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 495.

"And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems."

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"The hell within him."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 20.

"Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,--wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23.

"At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 34.

"A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 55.

"Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 73.

"Such joy ambition finds."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 92.

"Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 96.

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

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 108.

"That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 122.

"Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 162.

"And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 194.

"A heaven on earth."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 208.

"Flowers worthy of paradise."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 241.

"Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 256.

"Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 269.

"For contemplation he and valour form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 297.

"Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,-- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 307.

"Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 323.

"And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 393.

"As Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 499.

"Imparadis'd in one another's arms."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 506.

"Live while ye may, Yet happy pair."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 533.

"The timely dew of sleep."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 614.

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 677.

"In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 713.

"Eas'd the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear."

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"Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 750.

"Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve."

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"Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 810.

"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 830.

"Abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 846.

"All hell broke loose."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 918.

"Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 987.

"The starry cope Of heaven."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 992.

"Fled Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night."

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 1014.

"Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred."

Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 1.

"Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces."

Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 13.