quotes

• "and judgement given, That brought into this world a world of woe"
• "my celestial Patroness" Urania

  • in book 8 asks her to find him a "fit audience"
• "by stealthFound unsuspected way"

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• "The Serpent subtlest beast of all the field."
• "O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferredMore justly... reforming what was old"
• " god is centre of heaven, yet extends to all"
• Satan "But I in none of theseFind place or refuge"
• " o foul descent....am now constrainedInto a beast"
• "But what will not ambition and revengeDescend to? "
• In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled
• in at his mouthThe Devil entered;
• Let us divide our labours
• Looks intervene and smiles
• Adam "Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposedLabour to debar...this sweet intercourse of looks and smiles"
• ADAM "LEST HARM SHOULD BEFALL THEE SEVERED FROM ME"
• Adam " The wife where danger or dishonour lurks safest and seemliest by her husband stays"

  • patriarchal
  • mutualism- yet imbalanced?
• eve " thou shouldst my firmness doubt"

  • confrontational
  • insulted
• "Immortal Eve"

  "nymph like.. fair virign pass"
• Eve "how are we happy, still in fear of harm"
• Adam "best are all the things as the will of god ordained them"
• "but god left free the will, for what obeys reason is free"
• Adam to eve "Seek not Temptation" - imperative
• "go in thy native innocence"
• "for god towards thee has done his part, do thine"
• "from her husbands' hand her had soft she withdrew" - innocence
• "surpassed the goddess like deport though not ... with bow and quiver armed but with such gardning tools"
• "but desiring more her stay"
• narrators intervention " much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve...thou never foundst sweet repose"

  "event perverse"
• "despoiled of innocence"
• " the fiend, mere serpent in appearance"

  "on his quest"
• "each flower... drooping unsustained, them she upstays gently with myrtle band... herself though fairest unsupported flowr"
• Adam= prop

  satan= storm
• " the hand of Eve" significant motif

  • spot more delicious than those gardens feigned or of Alcinous, host of old Laertes son"
• "such pleasure took the serpent to behold"
• " THAT SPACE THE EVIL ABSTRACTED STOOD FROM HIS OWN EVIL"

  "STUPIDLY GOOD OF ENMITY DISARMED"
• "BUT THE HOT HELL THAT ALWAYS IN HIM BURNS... SOON ENDED HIS DELIGHT AND TORTURES HIM NOW MORE"
• "OTHER JOY TO ME IS LOST"
• "THE WAY TO HER RUIN I NOW TEND"
• "so spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed in serpent... surging maze"

  "his head crefted aloft"

  "carbuncle his eyes"

  "burnished neck of verdant gold"

  "pleasing was his shape"
• "fawning and licked the round whereupon she trod"