[Paradise Lost continued. Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. Book ii. Line 1. Surer to prosper than prosperity Book ii. Line 39. Could have assured us. The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Book ii. Line 75. When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour Call us to penance. Book ii. Line 90. Book ii. Line 105. Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. Book ii. Line 112. Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Book ii. Line 139. Paradise Lost continued.] For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven And princely counsel in his face yet shone, The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Or summer's noontide air. The palpable obscure. Book ii. Line 300. Book ii. Line 406. Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. Book ii. Line 432. 1 Rubente dextera. - Horace, Od. i. ii. 2. Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd In discourse more sweet, For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense, Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Book . Line 555. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. Book ii. Line 565. Arm the obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. Book ii. Line 568. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, : Where armies whole have sunk the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, Paradise Lost continued.] From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire. Book ii. Line 592. O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. Book ii. Line 620. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaras dire. Book ii. Line 628. 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. Book ii. Line 666. Whence and what art thou, execrable shape? Book ii. Line 681. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. So spake the grisly Terror. Book ii. Line 699. Book ii. Line 704. Incens'd with indignation Satan stood I fled, and cried out DEATH! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded Death. Book ii. Line 787. Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. Book ii. Line 803. Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. Book ii. Line 879. 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 |