«‹(…) then wilt thouh not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.'»

«‹This yet I apprehend not, why to those Among whom God will deign to dwell on Earth So many and so various laws are given:...

Klage Adams

«Beast now with beast ‹gan war, and fowl with fowl, and fish with fish (…)»

Book IX

«Carnal desire inflaming: he on Eve Began to cast lascivious eyes; she him As wantonly repaid; in lust they burn, Till Adam thus ‹gan Eve...

«Heaven is for thee to high to know what passes there; be lowly wise; Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of...

«things to their thought so unimaginable as hate in Heaven»

Book VI

«We know no time when we were not as now; Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais’d By our own quickening power, when fatal course Had circled his full...