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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First , That there is nothing brought into comparison , into consideration , nothing put into the balance , but the sight of God , the knowl- edge of God ; It is not called a better sight , nor a better knowledge , but there is no other ...
First , That there is nothing brought into comparison , into consideration , nothing put into the balance , but the sight of God , the knowl- edge of God ; It is not called a better sight , nor a better knowledge , but there is no other ...
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are never wanting , that dare preferre the worst Preachers , the worst Pleaders , the worst Poets : not that the better have left to write , or speake better , but that they that heare them judge worse ; Non illi pejus dicunt , sed hi ...
are never wanting , that dare preferre the worst Preachers , the worst Pleaders , the worst Poets : not that the better have left to write , or speake better , but that they that heare them judge worse ; Non illi pejus dicunt , sed hi ...
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Is that Beast better that hath two or three Mountains to graze on , then a little Bee that feeds on Dew or Manna , and lives upon what falls every morning from the Store - houses of Heaven Clouds 20 and Providence : Can a Man quench his ...
Is that Beast better that hath two or three Mountains to graze on , then a little Bee that feeds on Dew or Manna , and lives upon what falls every morning from the Store - houses of Heaven Clouds 20 and Providence : Can a Man quench his ...
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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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