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Plate 1:
"Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal sky"
(I. 44, 45)
Plate 2:
"Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool
His
mighty stature"
(I. 221, 222)
Plate 3:
"They heard, and were abashed, and up they
sprung"
(I. 331)
Plate 4:
"So numberless were those bad Angels,
Hovering
on wing, under the cope of Hell"
(I. 344, 345)
Plate 5:
"Their summons called
From every band and squared
regiment,
By place or choice the worthiest"
(I. 757-759)
Plate 6:
"High on a throne of a royal state, which
far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind"
(II. 1,2)
Plate 7:
"Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire"
(II.
628)
Plate 8:
"Before the gates there sat
On either side a
formidable shape"
(II. 648, 649)
Plate 9:
"With head, heads, wings, or feet, pursues his way,
And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies"
(II. 949,
950)
Plate 10:
"Heaven rung
With jubilee, and loud hosannas
filled
The eternal regions"
(III. 347-349)
Plate 11:
"And many more too long,
Embryos, and idiots,
eremites, and friars"
(III. 473, 474)
Plate 12:
"Towards the coast of Earth beneath,
Down from
the ecliptic, sped with hoped success,
Throws his steep flight in many an
aery wheel"
(III. 739-741)
Plate 13:
"Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite
wrath, and infinite dispair?"
(IV. 73, 74)
Plate 14:
"Now to the ascent of that steep savage
hill
Satan hath journey'd on, pensive and slow"
(IV.
172-173)
Plate 15:
"A happy rural seat of various view"
(IV. 247)
Plate 16:
"The savoury pulp they chew, and in the
rind,
Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream"
(IV. 335, 336)
Plate 20:
"Leaning, half raised, with looks of cordial love,
Hung over her enamoured"
(V. 12, 13)
Plate 21:
"Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape,
Comes this way moving?"
(V. 309, 310)
Plate 22:
"To whom the winged Hierarch replied:
O Adam,
one Almighty is, from whom
All things proceed"
(V. 468-470)
Plate 40:
"Back to the thicket slunk
The guilty serpent"
(IX. 784, 785)
Plate 41:
"Nor only tears
Rianed at their eves, but highs
winds worse within
Began to rise"
(IX. 1121-1123)
Plate 42:
"They heard,
And from His presence hid
themselves among
The tickest trees"
(X. 99-101)
Plate 43:
"And now expecting,
Each hour their great
adventurer, from the search
Of foreign worlds"
(X. 439-441)
Plate 44:
"Dreadful was the din,
Of hissing through the
hall, thick-swarming now
With complicated monsters"
(X. 521-523)
Plate 45:
"They said, they both betook them several ways"
(X. 610)
Plate 46:
"The heavenly bands,
Down from a sky jasper
lighted now
In Paradise"
(XI. 208-210)
Plate 47:
"Began to build a vessal of huge bulk"
(XI.
729)
Plate 48:
"All dwellings else
Flood overwhelmed, and then,
with all their pomp,
Deep under water rolled"
(XI. 747-749)
Plate 49:
"They beseech
That Moses might report to them
his will,
And terror cease"
(XII. 236-238)
Plate 50:
"Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them
soon"
(XII. 645)
