Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Macmillan, 1951 Volume 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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Helen Constance White. and cannot stay , to consider advisedly , of that is moved . If a man would crosse a Businesse , that he doubts some other would handsomely and effectually move , let him pretend to wish it well , and move it ...
Helen Constance White. and cannot stay , to consider advisedly , of that is moved . If a man would crosse a Businesse , that he doubts some other would handsomely and effectually move , let him pretend to wish it well , and move it ...
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... move , T'were prophanation of our joyes To tell the layetie our love . Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares , 22 Men reckon what it did and meant , But trepidation of the spheares , Though greater farre , is innocent . Dull ...
... move , T'were prophanation of our joyes To tell the layetie our love . Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares , 22 Men reckon what it did and meant , But trepidation of the spheares , Though greater farre , is innocent . Dull ...
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... move To live with thee , and be thy Love . But time drives flocks from field to fold , When Rivers rage , and rocks grow cold , Then Philomel " becometh dumb , And age complains of care to come . The flowers do fade , and wanton fields ...
... move To live with thee , and be thy Love . But time drives flocks from field to fold , When Rivers rage , and rocks grow cold , Then Philomel " becometh dumb , And age complains of care to come . The flowers do fade , and wanton fields ...
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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