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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

John Milton
Art, Lying, Government
John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

John Milton
Mother, Art, Eye
Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

John Milton
Sweet, Art, Sight
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 896

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

John Milton
Art, Bliss, Enormous
John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.400

But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

John Milton
Art, Soul, Lust
John Milton, “Comus”

But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

John Milton
Change, Art, Gone
'Lycidas' (1638) l. 37

Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

John Milton
Art, Loss, Ribs
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 914

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

John Milton
Art, Taken, Dust
John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton”, p.235

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

John Milton
Art, Husband, Thinking
John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.477, BookCaps Study Guides

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

John Milton
Art, Dust, Return

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

John Milton
Art, Knitting, Hair
'Comus' (1637) l. 859

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

John Milton
Happiness, Art, Son
John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.351

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

John Milton
Art, Father, Should
John Milton, Raymond de Verninac de Saint Maur, Elijah Fenton (1784). “Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books”, p.73

I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

John Milton
Art, Hate, Wind
John Milton, Edward Phillips (1834). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.260

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