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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Each banke doth yeeld thee coneyes ; " and the topps Fertile of wood , ASHORE , and SYDNEY'S copp's , To crowne thy open table , doth provide The purpled pheasant , with the speckled side : The painted partrich lyes in every field ...
Each banke doth yeeld thee coneyes ; " and the topps Fertile of wood , ASHORE , and SYDNEY'S copp's , To crowne thy open table , doth provide The purpled pheasant , with the speckled side : The painted partrich lyes in every field ...
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Now all things smile ; onely my Love doth lowre : Nor hath the scalding Noon - day - Sunne the power , To melt that marble yce , which still doth hold Her heart congeald , and makes her pittie cold . The Oxe which lately did for shelter ...
Now all things smile ; onely my Love doth lowre : Nor hath the scalding Noon - day - Sunne the power , To melt that marble yce , which still doth hold Her heart congeald , and makes her pittie cold . The Oxe which lately did for shelter ...
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Under his proud survey the City lies , And like a mist beneath a hill doth rise ; 20 Whose state and wealth the business and the crowd , Seems at this distance but a darker cloud : And is to him who rightly things esteems , No other in ...
Under his proud survey the City lies , And like a mist beneath a hill doth rise ; 20 Whose state and wealth the business and the crowd , Seems at this distance but a darker cloud : And is to him who rightly things esteems , No other in ...
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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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