Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Macmillan, 1951 - 498 pages 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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Page 301
... poor people , as she knew to stand in most need of them . This , as to her Charity.— 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 ...
... poor people , as she knew to stand in most need of them . This , as to her Charity.— 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 ...
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... 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 ; To walk in Ruines , like vain Ghosts , we love , And with fond Divining ...
... 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 ; To walk in Ruines , like vain Ghosts , we love , And with fond Divining ...
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... 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 bright food , thy absence kills ! Hover not long , eternal Dove ! 83 Life without ...
... 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 bright food , thy absence kills ! Hover not long , eternal Dove ! 83 Life without ...
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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