Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes

• What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

  John Milton

  Book, Dark, Men

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 22 (1667) See Housman 5; Milton 49

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• Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

  John Milton

  Arguing, Fame, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.297

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

  John Milton

  Flower, Paradise On Earth, Rose

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 256

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• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 55

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

  John Milton

  Envy, Sin, Lord

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education

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• O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

  John Milton

  War, Night, Men

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

  John Milton

  Loss, Lovely, Devil

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.32

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• Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

  John Milton

  Hate, Lucifer, Grows

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.98-9.

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• This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

  John Milton

  Light, Darkness, Horror

  John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.94

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• Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

  John Milton

  Farewell, Paradise Lost Book 9, Adieu

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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

  John Milton

  Confusion, Confusing, Ruins

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 995

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• Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

  John Milton

  Way, Paradise, Hell

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)

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• Me miserable! 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.

  John Milton

  Wrath, Heaven, Suffering

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 73

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• On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

  John Milton

  Doors, Sound, Thunder

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 879

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

  John Milton

  Stars, Moon, World

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.154

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• Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Morning, Bird

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 639 (1667)

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• Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

  John Milton

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Vain

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 562

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• The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Despair, Spirit

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 44

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• The never-ending flight Of future days.

  John Milton

  Future, Flight, Never Ending

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.47

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• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

  John Milton

  Nature, Graves, Womb

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

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• Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

  John Milton

  Revenge, Victory, Ifs

  John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.52

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• Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

  John Milton

  Crow, Devil, Awful

  John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.348

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• Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

  John Milton

  Power, Light, Long

  Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

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

  John Milton

  Hope, Fear, Farewell

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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