1671 · Skopia

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Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do What then thou would'st.

1671

★ 5.4

Poem · Religious literature · Epic poem

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 3.9

Poem · Religious literature · Epic poem

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 3.8

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end; Not wedlock-treachery.

1671

★ 3.8

Poem · Tragedy (play)

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 3.7

Ah, it's a lovely thing, to know a thing or two.

1671

★ 3.7

Poem · Religious literature · Epic poem

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

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 2.2

Poem · Religious literature · Epic poem

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

Paradise Regained · 1671

★ 2.2

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Apt words have power to suage The tumours of a troubled mind.

1671

★ 2.1

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possessed.

1671

★ 2.0