Careful Words

Paradise (?.)

  • Beulah
  • Beulah Land
  • Heaven
  • Land of Beulah
  • a better place
  • afterlife
  • afterworld
  • better world
  • destiny
  • eternal home
  • eternity
  • fate
  • future state
  • glory
  • happy hunting ground
  • heaven above
  • heavenly kingdom
  • high heaven
  • home
  • kingdom come
  • kingdom of God
  • kingdom of glory
  • kingdom of heaven
  • life after death
  • life to come
  • next world
  • otherworld
  • postexistence
  • presence of God
  • realm of light
  • the Promised Land
  • the beyond
  • the good hereafter
  • the grave
  • the great beyond
  • the great hereafter
  • the happy land
  • the hereafter
  • the unknown
  • the world above
  • what bodes
  • what is fated
  • world to come

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 (1810-1856): A Death-Bed.

If God hath made this world so fair,

Where sin and death abound,

How beautiful beyond compare

Will paradise be found!

James Montgomery (1771-1854): The Earth full of God's Goodness.

For he on honey-dew hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Kubla Khan.

Flowers worthy of paradise.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 241.

  England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.

Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

  England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.

Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

There is a garden in her face,

Where roses and white lilies show;

A heavenly paradise is that place,

Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.

There cherries hang that none may buy,

Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard Alison. Oliphant's "La Messa Madrigalesca," p. 229.)

'T is sweet, as year by year we lose

Friends out of sight, in faith to muse

How grows in Paradise our store.

John Keble (1792-1866): Burial of the Dead.

In this fool's paradise he drank delight.

George Crabbe (1754-1832): The Borough. Letter xii. Players.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?—thus leave

Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 269.

Since call'd

The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 495.

Paradise of fools; Fool's paradise.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss

Of Paradise that has survived the fall!

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 41.

  Unto you is paradise opened.

Old Testament: 2 Esdras viii. 52.

From Helicon's harmonious springs

A thousand rills their mazy progress take.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): The Progress of Poesy. I. 1, Line 3.

The meanest floweret of the vale,

The simplest note that swells the gale,

The common sun, the air, the skies,

To him are opening paradise.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude. Line 53.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life

That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment

Can lay on nature, is a paradise

To what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.