Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Volume One: Poets included are Lancelot Andrewes, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Burton, Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, George Wither, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Thomas Carew, Sir Thomas Browne, Sir William Davenant, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan. |
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Page 44
His first ten Essays of 1597 are , or were when they appeared , startling performances - little more than collections of " sentences " transferred from his commonplace book with scarcely any expansion or elaboration .
His first ten Essays of 1597 are , or were when they appeared , startling performances - little more than collections of " sentences " transferred from his commonplace book with scarcely any expansion or elaboration .
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The most fruitful approach to The Temple is to be found in the description which the dying author himself is said to have given when he sent the little book to his friend Nicholas Ferrar : " a picture of the many spiritual Conflicts ...
The most fruitful approach to The Temple is to be found in the description which the dying author himself is said to have given when he sent the little book to his friend Nicholas Ferrar : " a picture of the many spiritual Conflicts ...
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These four lives were published in one book in 1670 and republished in 1674. ... One does not need to have any interest in the " contemplative man's recreation " to enjoy this most famous of all books on fishing .
These four lives were published in one book in 1670 and republished in 1674. ... One does not need to have any interest in the " contemplative man's recreation " to enjoy this most famous of all books on fishing .
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Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Francis Bacon | 43 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1 Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Helen Constance White |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Editor | Helen Constance White |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1951 |
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