Paradise Regained
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Paradise Regained is a poem, published in 1671, by the 17th century English poet John Milton.
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[edit] Book I
- His coming, is sent Harbinger, who all
Invites, and in the Consecrated stream
Pretends to wash off sin- Lines 71-73
- Envy they say excites me, thus to gain
Companions of my misery and wo.- Lines 397-398
- That fellowship in pain divides not smart,
Nor lightens aught each mans peculiar load.- Lines 401-402
- Most men admire
Virtue who follow not her lore.- Lines 482-483
[edit] Book II
- And the great Thisbite who on fiery wheels
Rode up to Heaven, yet once again to come.- Lines 16-17
- My heart hath been a store-house long of things
And sayings laid up, portending strange events.- Lines 103-104
- Skilled to retire, and in retiring draw
Hearts after them tangled in amorous nets.- Lines 161-162
- Beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive.- Lines 220-221
- Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
- Line 228.
- For therein stands the office of a King,
His Honour, Vertue, Merit and chief Praise,
That for the Publick all this weight he bears.
Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, Desires, and Fears, is more than a King;- Lines 463-467
[edit] Book III
- For what is glory but the blaze of fame,
- Line 47
- Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
- Line 56.
- They err who count it glorious to subdue
By Conquest far and wide, to over-run
Large Countries, and in field great Battels win,- Lines 71-73
- Elephants endors'd with towers.
- Line 329.
[edit] Book IV
- Syene, and where the shadow both way falls,
Meroe, Nilotic isle.- Lines 70-71.
- Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.
- Line 76.
- The first of all Commandments, Thou shalt worship
The Lord thy God, and only him shalt serve;- Lines 176-177.
- The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.- Lines 220-21. Compare: "The child is father of the man", William Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps up.
- Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.- Lines 240-41.
- The olive grove of Academe,
Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird
Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.- Lines 244-46.
- Thence to the famous orators repair,
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece,
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.- Line 267-71.
- Socrates...
Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced
Wisest of men.- Lines 274-276.
- The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.- Lines 293-294.
- Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
- Line 327.
- As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.
Or if I would delight my private hours
With music or with poem, where so soon
As in our native language can I find
That solace?- Lines 330-35.
- Till morning fair
Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray.- Lines 426-27.
