Quotes

• 'her [muse] nightly vision unimplored me'
• 'the serpent, subtlest beast of all the field'
• 'as god in heaven/Is centre'
• 'to me [satan] shall be the glory'
• 'the height of deity aspired'
• 'fearness unfeared he slept'
• 'let us divide out labours'
• 'nothing lovlier can be found in a woman, then to study household good'
• 'severed from me' [eve is from Adams rib]
• 'safest and seemliest by her husband stays'
• 'offspring of heaven and earth'
• 'daughter of god and man, immortal eve'
• 'domestic adam'
• 'tempting affronts us'
• 'god left free the will for what obeys'
• 'soft she withdrew and like a wood-nymph light'
• 'hapless eve'
• 'despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss'
• 'in them, the whole included race'
• 'she fair, divinely fair'
• 'so spake the enemy of mankind'
• 'his turret crest and sleek enamelled neck, fawning and licked the ground whereon she trod'
• 'a godess among gods'
• 'guileful tempter'
• 'spirited sly snake'
• 'eve, our credulous mother'
• 'the tree of prohibiton'
• 'our reason is out law'
• 'wise and wisdom giving plant'
• 'your fear of death itself removes the fear'
• 'feed at once both body and mind'
• 'she plucked she ate'
• 'greedily she engorged without restraint'
• 'so dear i love him... without him live no life'
• 'a garland to adorn her tresses'
• 'a fatal trespass done by eve'
• 'all the faded roses shed'
• 'defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote?'
• 'my resolution is to die'
• 'our state cannot be severed, we are one'