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Lamp of Heaven (The)

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The moon. Milton calls the stars “lamps.”

“Why shouldst thou …

In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars,

That Nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps

With everlasting oil, to give due light

To the misled and lonely traveller?”


Comus, 200–204.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lamia
Lammas
Lammas Day (August 1st)
Lammas-tide
Lammer Beads
Lammermoor
Lamming (A)
Lamminin, Lamkin, Linkin
Lamourette’s Kiss
Lamp
Lamp of Heaven (The)
Lamp of Phœbus (The)
Lamp of the Law (The)
Lamps
Lampadion
Lampoon
Lampos and Phaeton
Lancashire Lads or “The Lancashire.”
Lancaster
Lancaster Gun
Lancasterian (A)