Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes - Page 2

• Fate shall yield
  To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

  John Milton

  Fate, Yield, Judging

  John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

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• And feel by turns the bitter change
  Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

  John Milton

  Bogs, Bitter, Fierce

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 598

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• God is thy law, thou mine.

  John Milton

  Law, Paradise Lost Book 9, Mines

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 637

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

  John Milton

  Nature, War, Night

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.159

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• O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

  John Milton

  Lakes, Rocks, Alps

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 620

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• Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

  John Milton

  Should, Horrible, Famine

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.509

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• The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

  John Milton

  Night, Hands, Black

  John Milton (1832). “Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author”, p.56

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• Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, Steel, Stubborn

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122

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• 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

  John Milton

  Book, Paradise, Down And

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.36

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• The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

  John Milton

  Spirit, Easy, Intercourse

  John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.218

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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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• 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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• 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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• Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

  John Milton

  Death, War, Paradise

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 263 (1667)

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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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• And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

  John Milton

  Pain, Night, Intellectual

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 146

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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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• With thee conversing I forget all time.

  John Milton

  Time, Forget, Thee

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

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

  John Milton

  Memories, Despair, Slumber

  John Milton (1831). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.76

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• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Silence

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

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