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Book 9, narrator, Milton begins to summon the muse
No more of talk where god or angel guest / with man
Book 9, narrator, Milton signifies change of tone
I now must change / these notes to tragic; foul distrust and breach / disloyal
Book 9, narrator as Satan, line 86
The serpent subtlest beast of all the field
Book 9, line 89, narrator as Satan
Fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud
Book 9, lines 99-100, Satan inflates earth's value
O Earth, how like to heaven, if not preferred / more justly
Book 9, lines 119-121, Satan summarises the satanic paradox
The more I see / pleasures about me, so much more I feel / torment within me
Book 9, lines 129-130, Satan reveals his mental state
For only in destroying I find ease / to my relentless thoughts
Book 9, lines 182-3, Adam reveals an arguably sexist attitude to the role of women
For nothing lovelier can be found / in woman, than to study household good, / and good works in her husband to promote
Book 9, lines 249-250, Adam debates letting eve go
For solitude sometimes is best society, / and short retirement urges sweet return
Book 9, lines 267-269, Adam shows his concerns about letting eve go when there is danger
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, / safest and seemliest by her husband stays, / who guards her, or with her the worst endures
Book 9, lines 279, 281, Eve seems almost offended at Adam's doubt
But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt /…/… I expected not to hear
Book 9, lines 335-336, Eve, areopagitica
And what is faith, love, virtue unassisted / alone, without exterior help sustained?
Book 9, lines 348-352, Adam's attitude to free will
within himself / The danger lies, yet lies within his power: / Against his will he
can receive no harm. / But God left free the will, for what obeys / Reason, is free, and
reason he made right
Book 9, line 372, Adam lets eve go
Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more
Book 9, lines 432-433, narrator on eve, foreshadows temptation
Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, / from her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.
Book 9, line 444, narrator on satan seeing Eden and eve
Much he the place admired, the person more
Book 9, lines 464-465, Satan's reaction to eve, Satan is stunned
And for the time remained / Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed
Book 9, line 467, narrator on Satan, Satan regains his composure
But the hot hell that always in him burns
Book 9, lines 477-479, Satan, reveals destructive nature
But all to pleasure to destroy, / save what is in destroying, other joy / to me is lost
Book 9, lines 516-517, narrator on Satan's appearance as a serpent
So varied he, and of his torturous train / curled many a wanton wreath
Book 9, lines 656-658, Satan presents a conundrum to eve
Indeed? Hath god then said that of the fruit / of all these garden trees ye shall not eat, / Yet lords declared of all in earth or air?
Book 9, lines 700-701, Satan makes a heretical remark about disobeying god
God therefore cannot hurt ye, and be just; / not just, not god; not feared then, nor obeyed
Book 9, line 704, Satan accuses god of preventing Adam and Eve from eating together fruit to…
Why but to keep ye low and ignorant
Book 9, lines 733-734, narrator on Satan's impact on eve
He ended, and his words replete with guile / into her heart too easy entrance won
Book 9, lines 780-782, narrator on Eve eating the fruit
Her rash hand in evil hour / forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: / earth felt the wound
Book 9, lines 822-825, eve makes a heretical remark about her status as a woman
The more to draw his love, / and render me more equal, and perhaps, / a thing not undesirable, sometime / superior, for inferior who is free?
Book 9, lines 832-833, Eve thinks of Adam after eating the fruit
So dear that I love him, that with him all deaths / I could endure, without him live no life
Book 9, lines 845-846, narrator on Adam realising something was wrong with eve
Yet of this heart, divine of something ill, / misgave him; he the faltering measure felt
Book 9, lines 853-854, narrator on eve's appearance as she met Adam after eating the fruit
In her face excuse / came prologue
Book 9, lines 877-878, Eve's explanation
Which for thee / chiefly I sought
Book 9, lines 881-882, eve tries to convince adam
Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot / may join us, equal joy as equal love
Book 9, lines 892-893 Adam's dumb reaction to eve
From his slack hand the garland wreathed for eve / down dropped, and all the faded roses shed
Book 9, line 958, Adam concludes he must eat the fruit
Our state cannot be severed, we are one
Book 9, line 961, eve's reaction Adam eating the fruit
O glorious trial of exceeding love
Book 9, lines 997-999, narrator on Adam
He scrupled not to eat, / against his better knowledge, not deceived, / but fondly overcome with female charm
Book 9, line 1008, narrator before sin of lust
As with new wine intoxicated both
Book 9, line 1013, narrator
Carnal desire inflaming
Book 9, lines 1053-1054, narrator
Soon found their eyes how opened, and their minds / how darkened
Book 9, lines 1067-1068, Adam
O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear / to that false worm
Book 9, lines 1121-1122, narrator
They sat them down to weep, nor only tears / Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within
Book 9, lines 1153-1156, Eve
Was I never to have parted from thy side? / as good have grown there still a lifeless rib. / being as I am, why didst thou the head / command me absolutely not to go?
Book 9, line 1167, Adam
Yet willingly chose death with thee
Book 10, lines 5-6, narrator
For what can scape the eye / of god all-seeing
Book 10, lines 8-9, narrator
[god] hindered not Satan to attempt the mind / Of man, with strength entire, and free will armed
Book 10, lines 43-44, God the Father
No decree of mine / concurring to necessitate his fall
Book 10, line 73, God the Son
The worst on me must light
Book 10, lines 77-78, God the Son
Yet shall I temper so / justice with mercy
Book 10, lines, 126-128, Adam
either to undergo / My self the total crime, or to accuse / My other self, the partner of my life
Book 10, lines 147-148, God the Son
to her / Thou didst resign thy manhood
Book 10, line 162, Eve
The serpent me beguiled and I did eat
Book 10, lines 194-196, God the Son
Children thou shalt bring / in sorrow forth, and thy husband's will / thine shall submit, he over thee shall rule
Book 10, line 205, God the Son
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread
Book 10, line 243, Sin
Methinks I feel new strength within me rise
Book 10, lines 272-273, narrator on death
with delight he snuffed the smell / of mortal change on earth
Book 10, lines 391-392, Satan
made one realm / Hell and this world, one realm, one continent
Book 10, lines 441-443, narrator on Satan
he through the midst unmarked, / in show of plebeian angel militant / of lowest order
Book 10, line 455, narrator on the crowds that met Satan
Their mighty chief returned: loud was the acclaim
Book 10, lines 469-471, Satan
Long were to tell / what I have done, what suffered, with what pain / voyaged
Book 10, lines 507-508, narrator on Satan's crowd
from innumerable tongues / A dismal universal hiss
Book 10, lines 725-726, Adam
yet well, if here would end / The misery, I deserved it
Book 10, lines 817-818, Adam
in me all / Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony
Book 10, lines 910-912, narrator on eve
with tears that ceased not flowing, / And tresses all disordered, at his feet / Fell humble
Book 10, lines 930-931, Eve
both have sinned, but thou / Against God only, I against God and thee
Book 10, line 989, Eve
Childless thou art, childless remain
Book 10, line 1001, Eve
Let us seek Death
Book 10, lines 1035-1036, Adam
to crush his head / Would be revenge indeed
Book 10, lines 1087-1089
prostrate fall, / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faultsBook 9, narrator, Milton begins to summon the muse
Book 9, narrator, Milton signifies change of tone
I now must change / these notes to tragic; foul distrust and breach / disloyal
Book 9, narrator as Satan, line 86
The serpent subtlest beast of all the field
Book 9, line 89, narrator as Satan
Fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud
Book 9, lines 99-100, Satan inflates earth's value
O Earth, how like to heaven, if not preferred / more justly
Book 9, lines 119-121, Satan summarises the satanic paradox
The more I see / pleasures about me, so much more I feel / torment within me
Book 9, lines 129-130, Satan reveals his mental state
For only in destroying I find ease / to my relentless thoughts
Book 9, lines 182-3, Adam reveals an arguably sexist attitude to the role of women
For nothing lovelier can be found / in woman, than to study household good, / and good works in her husband to promote
Book 9, lines 249-250, Adam debates letting eve go
For solitude sometimes is best society, / and short retirement urges sweet return
Book 9, lines 267-269, Adam shows his concerns about letting eve go when there is danger
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, / safest and seemliest by her husband stays, / who guards her, or with her the worst endures
Book 9, lines 279, 281, Eve seems almost offended at Adam's doubt
But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt /…/… I expected not to hear
Book 9, lines 335-336, Eve, areopagitica
And what is faith, love, virtue unassisted / alone, without exterior help sustained?
Book 9, lines 348-352, Adam's attitude to free will
within himself / The danger lies, yet lies within his power: / Against his will he
can receive no harm. / But God left free the will, for what obeys / Reason, is free, and
reason he made right
Book 9, line 372, Adam lets eve go
Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more
Book 9, lines 432-433, narrator on eve, foreshadows temptation
Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, / from her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.
Book 9, line 444, narrator on satan seeing Eden and eve
Much he the place admired, the person more
Book 9, lines 464-465, Satan's reaction to eve, Satan is stunned
And for the time remained / Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed
Book 9, line 467, narrator on Satan, Satan regains his composure
But the hot hell that always in him burns
Book 9, lines 477-479, Satan, reveals destructive nature
But all to pleasure to destroy, / save what is in destroying, other joy / to me is lost
Book 9, lines 516-517, narrator on Satan's appearance as a serpent
So varied he, and of his torturous train / curled many a wanton wreath
Book 9, lines 656-658, Satan presents a conundrum to eve
Indeed? Hath god then said that of the fruit / of all these garden trees ye shall not eat, / Yet lords declared of all in earth or air?
Book 9, lines 700-701, Satan makes a heretical remark about disobeying god
God therefore cannot hurt ye, and be just; / not just, not god; not feared then, nor obeyed
Book 9, line 704, Satan accuses god of preventing Adam and Eve from eating together fruit to…
Why but to keep ye low and ignorant
Book 9, lines 733-734, narrator on Satan's impact on eve
He ended, and his words replete with guile / into her heart too easy entrance won
Book 9, lines 780-782, narrator on Eve eating the fruit
Her rash hand in evil hour / forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: / earth felt the wound
Book 9, lines 822-825, eve makes a heretical remark about her status as a woman
The more to draw his love, / and render me more equal, and perhaps, / a thing not undesirable, sometime / superior, for inferior who is free?
Book 9, lines 832-833, Eve thinks of Adam after eating the fruit
So dear that I love him, that with him all deaths / I could endure, without him live no life
Book 9, lines 845-846, narrator on Adam realising something was wrong with eve
Yet of this heart, divine of something ill, / misgave him; he the faltering measure felt
Book 9, lines 853-854, narrator on eve's appearance as she met Adam after eating the fruit
In her face excuse / came prologue
Book 9, lines 877-878, Eve's explanation
Which for thee / chiefly I sought