20 Metaphors for paradise

Nietzsche's over-man is an ideal; the Mohammedan paradise is an ideal; and conduct can be modelled on them.

" "Paradise is life," said the poet.

And the consequence was that Eve lost paradise, became a sinner, and brought sin and all its attendant miseries into the world.

These paradises were places of beauty and loveliness, where the king and his friends might meet and walk together, and enjoy each other's society.

But Cobham can these tales confute, As all the curious know; For he hath proved beyond dispute, That Paradise is STOWE.

But the Acre Hill Land Improvement Company went on, and within three years paradise had become earth, and the mild-mannered and exceedingly amiable gentleman who had replaced the homes of the birds with some fifteen or twenty houses for small families could look about him and see greater results than ever greeted the eyes of Romulus in the days of the great Rome Land Improvement Company.

The ruined paradise is the mind, now torpid in death, of Adonais.

How should I test whether this opening Paradise was indeed Eden, or only the mirage of my fancymere sunshine upon sand?

Perhaps they remember that the Terrestrial Paradise is not far offa beautiful garden between the Tigris and Euphrates, unless it was between the Amou and the Syr-Daria.

His Paradise is a Spot more delicious than those gardens feigned Or of revived Adonis or renowned Alcinous, host of old Laertes' son Or that, not mystic, where the sapient King Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse[010]

Many of these are employed by the charitable, to distribute water in the streets; and they pray the thirsty to partake of the bounty offered to them in the name of God, praying that Paradise and pardon may be the lot of him who affords the refreshing gift.

Consider the excellency of virgins, [5804] Virgo coelum meruit, marriage replenisheth the earth, but virginity Paradise; Elias, Eliseus, John Baptist, were bachelors: virginity is a precious jewel, a fair garland, a never-fading flower;

"The Paradise of Doctors" is a pleasant bait to those wary readers who will bite at the bare hook of quackery, but must be tempted before they will venture into a book of medicine which has not lying as its staple material.

This paradise was a tomb.

Paradise is a fact, we may fancy Tintoretto reasoned; and it is easier to fill a quarter of an acre of canvas with a picture of Paradise than with any other subject, because the figures can be arranged in concentric tiers round Christ and Madonna in glory.

* * Paradise is, as from the learn'd I gather, A choir of blest souls circling in the Father.

And as such, Madame, you have placed them exactly where they should be: their earthly Paradise is the apartment of Monsieur Willy.

But the Paradise immediately at the foot of Box Hill is the gem of the whole scene, and is one of the most perfect pictures of rural beauty which pen or pencil can attempt.

Paradise, pillows and parasols are familiar symptoms.

This paradise of girlhood;there can be no objection."

20 Metaphors for  paradise