"Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonisht"*

[StarfishSaver]

*Milton, "Paradise Lost"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Welcome to DU

[herding cats]

2. Hmm...

[ProudLib72]

3. Can we fast forward to Paradise Regained please?

What some people see in that festering pool of rot is beyond me.

[Blue Owl]

4. Beelzeblob

n/t

[The River]

5. Another Classic

that seems to fit.

“Breathes there the man?”
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto VI.

BREATHES there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart has ne’er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

[StarfishSaver]

6. Perfect!

[tavernier]

7. Oh, I'd forgotten this one.

Thanks!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

8. I thought that was Willard Scott!

[tavernier]

10. First thing I thought of

[TheBlackAdder]

9. "Mommy, I miss you. I need you now to buy me a hooker."