Paradise Lost - Contextual Quotations

‘intends to soar…

‘intends to soar/ Above th’ Aonian Mount’ (Poetic Voice, Book I)

‘justifie…

‘justifie the wayes of God to men’ (Poetic Voice, Book I)

‘Now conscience…

‘Now conscience wakes despair’ (Poetic Voice, Book III)

‘Sufficient…

‘Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall’ (God, Book III)

‘nor can justly…

‘nor can justly accuse/ Thir maker, or thir making, or thir Fate,/ As if predestination over-rul’d/ Thir will’ (God, Book III)

‘if I foreknow…

‘if I foreknow,/ Foreknowledge has no influence on their fault’ (God, Book III)

‘Vain hopes….

‘Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires,/ Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride’ (Poetic Voice, Book IV)

‘the knowledge and survay…

‘the knowledge and survay of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human vertue’ (Areopagitica, Milton)

‘when God…

‘when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose’ (Areopagitica, Milton)

When was the English Civil War?

1642-1651

When was Paradise Lost published?

1667

When was the reign of Charles I?

1629-40

When was Charles I exectued?

1649

What was Milton writing during Charles I’s trial?

‘Of the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates’

When was Areopagitica published?

1644

When did Milton publish his divorce tract?

1643

What was Milton’s divorce tract called?

‘The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce’

‘He for God…

‘He for God only, she for God in him’ (Poetic Voice, Book IV)