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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

John Milton
Lonely, Stars, Lying
'Comus' (1637) l. 195

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

John Milton
Music, Sweet, Lying
'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

John Milton
Death, Lying, Sunset

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

John Milton
Kings, Lying, Wish To Die
John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.414

Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

John Milton
Beauty, Lying, Eye
'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 75

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

John Milton
Lying, Flower, Glowing
'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

John Milton
Lying, Endure, Temper
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.296

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

John Milton
Lying, Waste, Wasting Time
John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

John Milton
Life, Lying, Prime

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

John Milton
Running, Lying, Cells
John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.368

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

John Milton
Lying, Father, Mountain
John Milton (2004). “The Complete Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

John Milton
Children, Lying, Winter
'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1

Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

John Milton
Lying, Tears, Cups
'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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