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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Infernal world, and thou pr<strong>of</strong>oundest hell<br />

Receive thy new possessor: one who brings<br />

A mind not to be changed by place or time.<br />

<strong>The</strong> mind is its own place, and in itself<br />

Can make a heaven <strong>of</strong> hell, a hell <strong>of</strong> heaven.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 249<br />

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice<br />

To reign is worth ambition though in hell:<br />

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 261<br />

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine<br />

Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast<br />

Of some great admiral, were but a wand,<br />

He walked with to support uneasy steps<br />

Over the burning marl.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 292<br />

Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks<br />

In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades<br />

High overarched imbower.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 302<br />

First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood<br />

Of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 392<br />

For spirits when they please<br />

Can either sex assume, or both; so s<strong>of</strong>t<br />

And uncompounded is their essence pure.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 423<br />

But in what shape they choose,<br />

Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure,<br />

Can execute their aery purposes.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 428<br />

Astarte, queen <strong>of</strong> heaven, with crescent horns.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 439<br />

Thammuz came next behind,<br />

Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured<br />

<strong>The</strong> Syrian damsels to lament his fate<br />

In amorous ditties all a summer’s day,<br />

While smooth Adonis from his native rock<br />

Ran purple to the sea.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 446

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