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Paradise: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning-gate, And walked in Paradise.— JAMES ALDRICH — A Death Bed.

P. In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.— WM. R. ALGER — Oriental Poetry.

The Ninth Paradise. In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.— CRABBE — The Borough Players.

Letter XII. The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are open paradise.— GRAY — Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitudes. L. 53.

Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.— EARNEST L'EPINE — Croquemitaine. Bk. II. Ch. IX. Hood's trans.

A limbo large and broad since call'd The Paradise of fools to few unknown.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 495.

So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 131.

One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.— MOORE — Lalla Rookh. Paradise and

Paradise and S. the Peri. The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.— CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI — Saints and Angels. St. 10.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.— FRANCIS THOMPSON — Epilogue. St. 2.