Paradise Lost continued.] Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. Book i. Line 648. Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific. Book i. Line 679. Let none admire That riches grow in hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. Book i. Line 690. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. Book i. Line 710. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, Faëry elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side, High on a throne of royal state, which far [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. Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. Book ii. Line 105. 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, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night? 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 Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational. Book ii. Line 496. 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. Arm the obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. Book ii. Line 568. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog, 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 Chimæras 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 |