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8528I wonder why it is?
8528Of course it DOESN''T come down, but why should it SEEM to?
8528Then why is it that I love him?
8528Was she satisfied now?
8527After a pause he asked:"How did it come?"
8527He went to the edge of the burned place and stood looking down, and said:"What are these?"
8527He would ask what it was good for, and what could I answer?
8527They are forbidden, and he says I shall come to harm; but so I come to harm through pleasing him, why shall I care for that harm?
8527Where did he get that word?
8526Can it be that it was designed and manufactured for such ungentle work?
8526Has n''t it any compassion for those little creature?
8526Has n''t it any heart?
8526I wonder if THAT is what it is for?
8526If this reptile is a man, it is n''t an IT, is it?
8526Is my position assured, or do I have to watch it and take care of it?
8526That would n''t be grammatical, would it?
8526Then if I am an experiment, am I the whole of it?
398Am I my brother''s keeper?
398Am I my brother''s keeper?
3981 After this Satan called to his hosts, all of which came to him, and said to him:-- 2"O, our lord, what will you do?"
3981 But when Adam came out and saw his hideous figure, he was afraid of him, and said to him,"Who are you?"
3981 Then Adam said to Eve,"Do you not see these figs and their leaves, with which we covered ourselves when we were stripped of our bright nature?
3981 Then came the Word of God to Adam and Eve, and raised them from their dead state, saying to them,"Why did you come up here?
3981 Then the Word of God came and said:-- 2"O Adam, who counselled you, when you came out of the cave, to come to this place?"
3981 Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him,"O Adam, why did n''t you have this dread, or this fasting, or this care before now?
39810 Adam said again to Eve,"What is our body today, compared to what it was in former days, when we lived in the garden?"
39810 Then Adam said to Eve,"Wherefore has the mountain bent itself, and the earth quaked and shaken on our account?
39811 Does God intend to plague us and to shut us up in this prison?
39811 O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?"
39812 Where shall we find Him, to comfort us a second time?
39817 Then Cain answered with a proud heart and a gruff voice,"How, O God?
39818 Then Eve said,"What is that matter, O Adam?"
3982 Then Eve answered,"How can we do it?"
39820 Then Eve said to Adam,"Why need we go below the mountain?
39824 And He said to him,"Where is your brother?"
39826 But God said to cain,"Why do you look sad?
3983 But when Adam heard these words from him, he said to him,"Can you make me a garden as God made for me?
3984 And God began to speak to Adam and Eve, saying to them,"What made you come out of the cave, to this place?"
3984 And God said to Adam,"O Adam, what do you seek on the western border?
3984 Then the Lord God said to Adam,"O Adam, you dread the heat of fire for one night, but how will it be when you live in hell?
3984 What is it compared with the garden?
3984 Where is the divine nature you promised to give me?
3985 And Adam cried and said to Eve,"Did we go to the wrong cave, then, O Eve?
3985 Then Adam cried, in deep affliction, and beat his chest; and he got up and said to Eve,"Where are you?"
3985 Then Adam said to God,"Did you create a man before us?
3985 Then Adam said to them,"But how do you multiply?"
3985 Then Satan said to Adam,"Do you think that when I have promised one something that I would actually deliver it to him or fulfil my word?
3985 Then look at Me, O Adam; I created you, and how many times have I delivered you out of his hand?
3985 What is this rock, by the side of those groves?
3986 And Adam said,"What is it?"
3986 And Eve said to him,"What is it you have seen that has caused you to cry and to speak to me in this manner?"
3986 What is this overhanging ledge of rock to shelter us, compared with the mercy of the Lord that overshadowed us?
3987 And Satan said again to Adam,"Do n''t be afraid and do n''t tremble; do n''t you know us?"
3987 And he said to Eve,"Do you not see this water that was with us in the garden, that watered the trees of the garden, and flowed out from there?
3987 Do you think, Adam, that he loved you when he made this agreement with you?
3987 If this be really so, O Eve, where shall we live?
3987 Then Adam stood up in the cave and said,"O God, why has light departed from us, and darkness covered us?
3987 What is the soil of this cave compared with the garden land?
3988 And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us?
3988 But now that He has brought us out into another land, who knows what may happen in it?
3988 Then Cain said with joy,"Where are your relations?"
3989 Then Satan said to Adam,"O Adam, why are you so pained with hunger and thirst?
3989 Then they said to Adam and Eve,"See all our husbands and our children?
3989 What, then, is his beauty that you should have followed him?
3989 Who knows what may happen in that land by day or by night?
398Am I dead?"
398Am I my brother''s keeper?"
398And Adam said to Eve,"What is that fire by our cave?
398And what have you gained by obeying him?
398And what shall I desire and ask of you, O God, when it is gone?"
398And when he came up to Eve he said to her,"Who told you to come here?"
398And where is the gift he promised?
398And where shall we flee from before the face of the Lord?
398And who knows but that the darkness of that land may be far greater than the darkness of this land?
398And who knows whether it will be far or near, O Eve?
398And why did n''t you have this fear before you transgressed?
398And why has this rock spread itself over us like a tent?
398And why have you left of thine own accord the eastern border, in which was your living place?
398Chapter LI-"What is his beauty that you should have followed him?"
398Chapter LI-"What is his beauty that you should have followed him?"
398Did he really then become king over us?
398Do you intend to go into the garden, from which I brought you out?
398Do you suppose that there is another cave besides this one in the earth?
398For as to the word of God to Cain,"Where is your brother?"
398If not, would n''t he have destroyed you?"
398Is not our deliverance long and far off, unless God come, and in mercy to us fulfil His promise?"
398O God, have you taken them, and sown these two trees, or have we gone astray in the earth; or has the enemy deceived us?
398O my Lord, what shall we do to Your servants?"
398Or can you clothe me in the same bright nature in which God had clothed me?
398Or that he loved you and wished to raise you on high?
398Or where God will prevent us from beholding Him, because we have transgressed His commandment, and because we have made requests of Him at all times?
398Or will He close the earth over us?
398So Adam said to Eve:-- 2"Look, the fire has burnt our flesh in this world; but how will it be when we are dead, and Satan shall punish our souls?
398Then Satan answered,"It is a simple thing, yet it is the Word of God, will you accept it from us and do it?
398This earth, strewed with stones; and that, planted with delicious fruit trees?"
398What is its narrowness compared with the space of the other?
398What is the gloom of this cavern, compared with the light of the garden?
398When did these two trees grow here?
398Where are those sheep of thine you told me to bless?"
398Where is his divinity?
398Where is his light?
398Where is that slick speech of yours that you had with us at first, when we were in the garden?"
398Where is the glory that rested on him?
398Where is this love for you?
398Where it will please God to put us, may be far from the garden, O Eve?
398Where shall we find Him, that He may think of us, as regards the covenant He has made on our behalf?"
398Where, then, is the beauty that was on him?
398Why did you leave us in this long darkness?
398Why do you plague us like this?
398Will You make us perish?
26O father, what intends thy hand,she cried,"Against thy only son?
26Wherefore cease we, then?
26Ah, why should all mankind, For one man''s fault, thus guiltless be condemned, It guiltless?
26Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
26And am I now upbraided as the cause Of thy transgressing?
26And do they only stand By ignorance?
26And know''st for whom?
26And what are Gods, that Man may not become As they, participating God- like food?
26And what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed Alone, without exteriour help sustained?
26And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry Foe Can give it, or will ever?
26And, though God Made thee without thy leave, what if thy son Prove disobedient, and reproved, retort,"Wherefore didst thou beget me?
26As he our darkness, can not we his light Imitate when we please?
26Being as I am, why didst not thou, the head, Command me absolutely not to go, Going into such danger, as thou saidst?
26Book III Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam''d?
26But fallen he is; and now What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass On his transgression,--death denounced that day?
26But from me what can proceed, But all corrupt; both mind and will depraved Not to do only, but to will the same With me?
26But have I now seen Death?
26But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust?
26But past who can recall, or done undo?
26But say, What meant that caution joined, If ye be found Obedient?
26But say, if our Deliverer up to Heaven Must re- ascend, what will betide the few His faithful, left among the unfaithful herd, The enemies of truth?
26But say, what mean those coloured streaks in Heaven Distended, as the brow of God appeased?
26But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear?
26But to convince the proud what signs avail, Or wonders move the obdurate to relent?
26But what if better counsels might erect Our minds, and teach us to cast off this yoke?
26But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to?
26But wherefore all night long shine these?
26But wherefore thou alone?
26But whom send I to judge them?
26But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new World?
26But, if death Bind us with after- bands, what profits then Our inward freedom?
26Can he make deathless death?
26Can it be death?
26Can it be sin to know?
26Can thus The image of God in Man, created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since, To such unsightly sufferings be debased Under inhuman pains?
26Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man?
26Doctrine which we would know whence learned: who saw When this creation was?
26Dwells in all Heaven charity so dear?
26Faithful to whom?
26First, what revenge?
26For though the Lord of all be infinite, Is his wrath also?
26For us alone Was death invented?
26For, what admirest thou, what transports thee so, An outside?
26Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good; why else set here?"
26Gabriel?
26Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand?
26Hast thou eaten of the tree, Whereof I gave thee charge thou shouldst not eat?
26Hast thou not made me here thy substitute, And these inferiour far beneath me set?
26Hast thou not wondered, Adam, at my stay?
26High matter thou enjoinest me, O prime of men, Sad task and hard: For how shall I relate To human sense the invisible exploits Of warring Spirits?
26How can he exercise Wrath without end on Man, whom death must end?
26How can they then acquitted stand In sight of God?
26How comes it thus?
26How dies the Serpent?
26If thence he scape, into whatever world, Or unknown region, what remains him less Than unknown dangers, and as hard escape?
26In heavenly Spirits could such perverseness dwell?
26In plain then, what forbids he but to know, Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?
26In solitude What happiness, who can enjoy alone, Or, all enjoying, what contentment find?
26Is knowledge so despised?
26Is not the Earth With various living creatures, and the air Replenished, and all these at thy command To come and play before thee?
26Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith?
26Is this the end Of this new glorious world, and me so late The glory of that glory, who now become Accursed, of blessed?
26Is this the way I must return to native dust?
26Is this, then, worst-- Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?
26It was but breath Of life that sinned; what dies but what had life And sin?
26Know ye not then said Satan, filled with scorn, Know ye not me?
26Knowest thou not Their language and their ways?
26Me first He ruined, now Mankind; whom will he next?"
26Meanwhile war arose, And fields were fought in Heaven: wherein remained( For what could else?)
26Must I thus leave thee Paradise?
26My voice thou oft hast heard, and hast not feared, But still rejoiced; how is it now become So dreadful to thee?
26O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred For what God, after better, worse would build?
26O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that meek man, who well had sacrificed; Is piety thus and pure devotion paid?
26O, then, at last relent: Is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left?
26Only begotten Son, seest thou what rage Transports our Adversary?
26Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?
26Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?
26Or hear''st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?
26Or is it envy?
26Or serve they, as a flowery verge, to bind The fluid skirts of that same watery cloud, Lest it again dissolve, and shower the earth?
26Or shall the Adversary thus obtain His end, and frustrate thine?
26Or when we lay Chained on the burning lake?
26Our Maker bids encrease; who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?
26Peace is despaired; For who can think submission?
26Proud, art thou met?
26Satan, I know thy strength, and thou knowest mine; Neither our own, but given: What folly then To boast what arms can do?
26Say they who counsel war;"we are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe; Whatever doing, what can we suffer more, What can we suffer worse?"
26Say, Woman, what is this which thou hast done?
26Say, heavenly Powers, where shall we find such love?
26Seem I to thee sufficiently possessed Of happiness, or not?
26Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt The virtue of that fruit, in thee first proved: But say, where grows the tree?
26Shall Truth fail to keep her word, Justice Divine not hasten to be just?
26Shall that be shut to Man, which to the Beast Is open?
26Shall we, then, live thus vile-- the race of Heaven Thus trampled, thus expelled, to suffer here Chains and these torments?
26Shalt thou give law to God?
26Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry- eyed behold?
26Sleepest thou, Companion dear?
26That thou art naked, who Hath told thee?
26That we were formed then sayest thou?
26The former, vain to hope, argues as vain The latter; for what place can be for us Within Heaven''s bound, unless Heaven''s Lord supreme We overpower?
26Their song was partial; but the harmony( What could it less when Spirits immortal sing?)
26This deep world Of darkness do we dread?
26This evening from the sun''s decline arrived, Who tells of some infernal Spirit seen Hitherward bent( who could have thought?)
26Thou art my father, thou my author, thou My being gav''st me; whom should I obey But thee?
26Thou hadst: whom hast thou then or what to accuse, But Heaven''s free love dealt equally to all?
26Thou to me thy thoughts Wast wo nt, I mine to thee was wo nt to impart; Both waking we were one; how then can now Thy sleep dissent?
26To the loss of that, Sufficient penalty, why hast thou added The sense of endless woes?
26To whom the Goblin, full of wrath, replied:--"Art thou that traitor Angel?
26Was I to have never parted from thy side?
26Was she thy God, that her thou didst obey Before his voice?
26Was this your discipline and faith engaged, Your military obedience, to dissolve Allegiance to the acknowledged Power supreme?
26What callest thou solitude?
26What can it the avail though yet we feel Strength undiminished, or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment?"
26What can your knowledge hurt him, or this tree Impart against his will, if all be his?
26What could I do, But follow straight, invisibly thus led?
26What fear I then?
26What fear we then?
26What fury, O son, Possesses thee to bend that mortal dart Against thy father''s head?
26What if the sun Be center to the world; and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds?
26What if we find Some easier enterprise?
26What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
26What may this mean?
26What should they do?
26What sit we then projecting peace and war?
26What sleep can close Thy eye- lids?
26What strength, what art, can then Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe, Through the strict senteries and stations thick Of Angels watching round?
26What thinkest thou then of me, and this my state?
26What though the field be lost?
26What when we fled amain, pursued and struck With Heaven''s afflicting thunder, and besought The Deep to shelter us?
26What will they then But force the Spirit of Grace itself, and bind His consort Liberty?
26What wonder?
26Where art thou, Adam, wo nt with joy to meet My coming seen far off?
26Which of those rebel Spirits adjudged to Hell Comest thou, escaped thy prison?
26Which of you will be mortal, to redeem Man''s mortal crime, and just the unjust to save?
26Who can in reason then, or right, assume Monarchy over such as live by right His equals, if in power and splendour less, In freedom equal?
26Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
26Who of all ages to succeed, but, feeling The evil on him brought by me, will curse My head?
26Who then shall guide His people, who defend?
26Whose but his own?
26Why comes not Death, Said he, with one thrice- acceptable stroke To end me?
26Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day?
26Why do I overlive, Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out To deathless pain?
26Why else this double object in our sight Of flight pursued in the air, and o''er the ground, One way the self- same hour?
26Why is life given To be thus wrested from us?
26Why should not Man, Retaining still divine similitude In part, from such deformities be free, And, for his Maker''s image sake, exempt?
26Why should their Lord Envy them that?
26Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel When I am present, and thy trial choose With me, best witness of thy virtue tried?
26Why then was this forbid?
26Why, but to awe; Why, but to keep ye low and ignorant, His worshippers?
26Will he draw out, For anger''s sake, finite to infinite, In punished Man, to satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never?
26Will they not deal Worse with his followers than with him they dealt?
26Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend The supple knee?
26Wouldst thou admit for his contempt of thee That proud excuse?
26Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve First thy obedience; the other who can know, Not seeing thee attempted, who attest?
26Yet why?
26and can envy dwell In heavenly breasts?
26and the work Of secondary hands, by task transferred From Father to his Son?
26and what is one?
26and wherein lies The offence, that Man should thus attain to know?
26and, transformed, Why sat''st thou like an enemy in wait, Here watching at the head of these that sleep?
26but double how endured, To one, and to his image now proclaimed?
26but what we more affect, Honour, dominion, glory, and renown; Who have sustained one day in doubtful fight,( And if one day, why not eternal days?)
26by looks only?
26by the fruit?
26couldst thou support That burden, heavier than the earth to bear; Than all the world much heavier, though divided With that bad Woman?
26did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me, or here place In this delicious garden?
26do not believe Those rigid threats of death: ye shall not die: How should you?
26expressed Immutable, when thou wert lost, not I; Who might have lived, and joyed immortal bliss, Yet willingly chose rather death with thee?
26for what can I encrease, Or multiply, but curses on my head?
26for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?
26for, on earth, Who against faith and conscience can be heard Infallible?
26from hence how far?
26hath God then said that of the fruit Of all these garden- trees ye shall not eat, Yet Lords declared of all in earth or air?
26how last unfold The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal?
26how, without remorse, The ruin of so many glorious once And perfect while they stood?
26it gives you life To knowledge; by the threatener?
26language of man pronounced By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?
26of evil, if what is evil Be real, why not known, since easier shunned?
26or can introduce Law and edict on us, who without law Err not?
26or do they mix Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch?
26or more than this, that we are dust, And thither must return, and be no more?
26or these titles now Must we renounce, and, changing style, be called Princes of Hell?
26or thou than they Less hardy to endure?
26or to us denied This intellectual food, for beasts reserved?
26or will God incense his ire For such a petty trespass?
26or wilt thou thyself Abolish thy creation, and unmake For him, what for thy glory thou hast made?
26rather, what know to fear Under this ignorance of good and evil, Of God or death, of law or penalty?
26rather, why Obtruded on us thus?
26rememberest thou Thy making, while the Maker gave thee being?
26these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of Gods?
26to thy rebellious crew?
26what are these, Death''s ministers, not men?
26what doubt we to incense His utmost ire?
26what praise could they receive?
26what, but unbuild His living temples, built by faith to stand, Their own faith, not another''s?
26when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?
26wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose?
26wherefore, but in hope To dispossess him, and thyself to reign?
26which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
26whom but thee, Vicegerent Son?
26whom follow?
26whom shall we find Sufficient?