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A pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 1,016) [Trees] So counsel'd he, and both together went Into the thickest wood; there soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take rood, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 1,099) [Figs] But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 168) [Ambition] Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 171) [Revenge] The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 195) [Husbands] Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 205) [Agriculture] The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 208) [Work] Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 216) [Ivy] For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 232) [Wives : Women] For smiles from reason flow To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 239) [Smiles] My unpremeditated verse. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 24) [Poetry] For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 249) [Solitude] . . . at shut of evening flowers. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 278) [Flowers] Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 278) [Evening] She fair, divinely fair, fit love for gods. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 489) [Beauty] To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 584) [Apples] Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 633) [Hope] So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 643) [Fraud] Left that command Sole daughter of his voice. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 652) [Duty] Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 780) [Sin] Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way, And giv'st access, though secret she retire. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 807) [Experience] So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 832) [Love] In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 853) [Face] Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 904) [Fraud] For what thou art is mine: Our state cannot be sever'd; we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. - Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 957) [Wives] Displaying page 23 of 30 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 [23] 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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