Excerpts

"Awake, arise, or be forever fallen."
Book 1, Line 330;


"Who overcomes by force
Hath overcome but half his foe."
1.648-9


"...for none sure shall claim in Hell Precedence."
2.32-34


"How wearisome
Eternity so spent in worship paid
To whom we hate!"
2.247-249


"Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall."
3.99


"...and still with vain design
New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build:"
3.477-478


"...how shall I relate
To human sense the invisible exploits
Of warring Spirits?"
5.564-5


"...now learn too late
How few sometimes may know when thousands err."
6.147-8


"But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to?"
9.168-9


"...Man should be seduced,
And flattered out of all, believing lies
Against his Maker"
10.41-43


...miserable it is
To be to others cause of misery..."
(Eve, in Paradise Lost)
10.981-2


"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st
Live well: how short or long permit to Heaven."
(Michael, to Adam)
11.554-5


"Tyranny must be,
Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse.
12.95-96

These excerpts are from:
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Penguin Classics; London; 2003