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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Some moneths she hath beene dead ( but being dead , Measures of times are all determined ) But long she'ath beene away , long , long , yet none Offers to tell us who it is that's gone . But as in states doubtfull of future heires ...
Some moneths she hath beene dead ( but being dead , Measures of times are all determined ) But long she'ath beene away , long , long , yet none Offers to tell us who it is that's gone . But as in states doubtfull of future heires ...
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She that did thus much , and much more could doe , 101 But that our age was Iron , and rustie too , Shee , shee is dead , shee's dead ; when thou knowst this , Thou knowst how drie a Cinder this world is . And learn'st thus much by our ...
She that did thus much , and much more could doe , 101 But that our age was Iron , and rustie too , Shee , shee is dead , shee's dead ; when thou knowst this , Thou knowst how drie a Cinder this world is . And learn'st thus much by our ...
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Whether the planting of yewe in Church- yards hold not its originall from ancient Funerall rites , or as an Embleme of Resur- 20 citate their dying or dead friends , or re- rection , from its perpetual verdure , may also admit ...
Whether the planting of yewe in Church- yards hold not its originall from ancient Funerall rites , or as an Embleme of Resur- 20 citate their dying or dead friends , or re- rection , from its perpetual verdure , may also admit ...
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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 |
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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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