Paradise Lost Book 9 Quotes by John Milton and many others.
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.
To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
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.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.
With thee conversing I forget all time.
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman’s happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
Abash’d the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
