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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And for his own , he set no limits to it ; nor did ever turn his face from any that he saw in want , but would relieve them ; es- pecially his poor Neighbours ; to the mean- est of whose Houses , he would go and in- form himself of ...
And for his own , he set no limits to it ; nor did ever turn his face from any that he saw in want , but would relieve them ; es- pecially his poor Neighbours ; to the mean- est of whose Houses , he would go and in- form himself of ...
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In barren Age wild and unglorious lie , And boast of past Fertilitie , The poor relief of Present Povertie . Food and Fruit we now must want Unless new Lands we plant . We break up Tombs with Sacrilegious hands ; Old Rubbish we remove ...
In barren Age wild and unglorious lie , And boast of past Fertilitie , The poor relief of Present Povertie . Food and Fruit we now must want Unless new Lands we plant . We break up Tombs with Sacrilegious hands ; Old Rubbish we remove ...
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The Seed Growing Secretly If this worlds friends might see but once What some poor man may often feel , Glory , and gold , and Crowns and Thrones They would soon quit and learn to kneel . My dew , my dew ! my early love , My souls ...
The Seed Growing Secretly If this worlds friends might see but once What some poor man may often feel , Glory , and gold , and Crowns and Thrones They would soon quit and learn to kneel . My dew , my dew ! my early love , My souls ...
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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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