John Milton

“Paradise Lost”
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 John Milton
“Paradise Lost”
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Classical Poetry S 5
III-213. Say Heav'nly Powers, where shall we find such love,
III-213. Is any one of you up to it?”
III-214. Which of ye will be mortal to redeem / Mans mortal crime, and
just th' unjust to save, / Dwels in all Heaven charitie so deare? / He ask'd,
but all the Heav'nly Quire stood mute,
III-214. Nobody stepped up.
III-218. And silence was in Heav'n: on mans behalf / Patron or Intercessor
none appeerd, / Much less that durst upon his own head draw / The deadly
forfeiture, and ransom set.
-218. None of the angels even spoke up on man's behalf, let alone offered
to die for him.
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III-222. And now without redemption all mankind / Must have bin lost,
adjudg'd to Death and Hell / By doom severe, had not the Son of God, / In
whom the fulness dwells of love divine, / His dearest mediation thus
renewd.
III-222. So now the whole human race would have died and gone to Hell if
the Son of God hadn't come forward.
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III-305. Because thou hast, though Thron'd in highest bliss / Equal to God,
and equally enjoying / God-like fruition, quitted all to save / A World from
utter loss, and hast been found / By Merit more then Birthright Son of God,
/ Found worthiest to be so by being Good, / Farr more then Great or High;
because in thee / Love hath abounded more then Glory abounds,
III-305. Your love is greater than your glory. By giving up your place in
Heaven to save the world, you show yourself to be even more worthy to be
the Son of God.
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II-1. High on a Throne of Royal State, which far / Outshon the wealth of
Ormus and of Ind, / Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand / Showrs
on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, / Satan exalted sat,
II-1. Satan sat on his throne. It was fancier than the richest kings of Persia
or India had.
II-5. by merit rais'd / To that bad eminence; and from despair
II-5. He had become the king of evil.
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XII-63. Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeas'd. / O execrable Son so to
aspire / Above his Brethren, to himself assuming / Authoritie usurpt,
XII-63. “What a stupid man,” said Adam, “to think he could make himself
lord over his brothers.
XII-66. from God not giv'n: / He gave us onely over Beast, Fish, Fowl /
Dominion absolute; that right we hold / By his donation; but Man over men
/ He made not Lord; such title to himself / Reserving, human left from
human free.
XII-66. God gave us authority over the animals only, not over people. He's
the only one who can rule over us.
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V-785. But what if better counsels might erect / Our minds and teach us to
cast off this Yoke?
V-785. Shouldn't we say the hell with this, we've had enough!
V-787. Will ye submit your necks, and chuse to bend / The supple knee?
V-787. Or would you rather get down on your knees again?
V-788. ye will not, if I trust / To know ye right, or if ye know your selves
V-788. Not if I know you like I think I do, or if you know yourselves.
V-790. Natives and Sons of Heav'n possest before / By none, and if not
equal all, yet free, / Equally free; for Orders and Degrees / Jarr not with
liberty, but well consist.
V-790. You were never owned by anybody. You may not be equal in rank,
but you have always been equally free.
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