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Virtue can see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk.
Virtue can see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1608–1674)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 271 · printed citation: Milton · subject: Virtue
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