TEXTS USED AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sing Heavn’ly Muse (…)

Things unattempeted yet in Prose or Rhime 1, 6 – 16

Fall'n Cherube, to be weak is miserable

Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure,

To do (…) good never will be our task,

But ever to do ill our sole delight, 1, 157 - 160

For he, be sure, In hight or depth,

still first and last will Reign Sole King,

and of his Kingdom loose no part By our revolt,

but over Hell extend His Empire,

and with Iron Scepter rule Us here,

as with his Golden those in Heav'n. 2, 323-28

TAKE:: Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,

Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat

That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom

For that celestial light? Be it so, since he

Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid

What shall be right: fardest from him is best

Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream

Above his equals 1, 242

Forbidden them to taste: Knowledge forbidd’n?

Suspicious, reasonless.

Why should thy Lord Envie them that?

can it be sin to know,

Can it be death? 4, 515 - 518

All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,

And Study of revenge, immortal hate,

And courage never to submit or yield: 1, 106

I know thee, stranger, who thou art,

That mighty leading Angel, who of late

Made head against Heav’ns King, 2, 990

Farewel happy Fields,

Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail

Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell

Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings

A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.

The mind is its own place, and in it self

Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

What matter where, if I be still the same,

And what I should be, all but less then he

Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least

We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built

Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:

Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n. 1, 249 – 263

Me miserable! (…)

Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;

And in the lowest deep a lower deep,

Still threat’ning to devour me, opens wide,

To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. 4, 73–78

(…)So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,

Farewell remorse:

all good to me is lost;

Evil be thou my good; 4, 108 – 110

And chiefly Thou O Spirit (…)

Instruct me, for Thou know'st

(…) What in me is dark– 1, 17 – 19

Here we shall be free, 1, 262 - 263

better to reign in hell that to serve in Hell

(last word altered, originally Heaven)

Sage, he stood with Atlantan shoulders, 2

fit to bear the weight of mightiest monarchies

Here Nature first begins

in at his Mouth The Devil enterd, 9, 185 - 89

and his brutal° sense,

In heart or head

That may lift Human imagination to such

hight Of Godlike Power: 6, 299 – 301

Nine dayes they fell;

confounded Chaos roard, (…) 5, 871

Against the Throne and Monarchy of God

Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel proud

With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power

Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie 1, 42 - 45

Lately I’ve been thinking; do you think I am the Devil because I am inherently evil, or just because dear old dad decided I was? You people misunderstand me. Call me Satan and Devil but do you know my Crime? I loved God too much. And for that he betrayed me, punished me, just like he’s punished you. After all, how could God stand idly by while that man broke into your home and shot your family in their beds? There are only two rational answers, Nick; either he is sadistic, or he simply does not care

(Lucifer TV series)

As for the Milton quotations the following source has been used:

URL: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml

Paradise Lost: Book 1

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