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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125 And as for the overmuch credite that hath beene given unto Authors in Science , in making them Dictators , that their wordes should stand , and not Counsels to give advise ; the dammage is infinite that 10 ing of two extreamities ...
125 And as for the overmuch credite that hath beene given unto Authors in Science , in making them Dictators , that their wordes should stand , and not Counsels to give advise ; the dammage is infinite that 10 ing of two extreamities ...
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To adore , or scorne an image , or protest , May all be bad ; doubt wisely ; in strange way To stand inquiring right , is not to stray ; To sleepe , or runne wrong , is : on a huge hill , Cragged , and steep , Truth stands , and hee ...
To adore , or scorne an image , or protest , May all be bad ; doubt wisely ; in strange way To stand inquiring right , is not to stray ; To sleepe , or runne wrong , is : on a huge hill , Cragged , and steep , Truth stands , and hee ...
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The Stand . For , what is life , if measur'd by the space , Not by the act ? Or masked man , if valu'd by his face , Above his fact ? " Here's one out - liv'd his Peeres , And told forth fourescore yeares ; He vexed time , and busied ...
The Stand . For , what is life , if measur'd by the space , Not by the act ? Or masked man , if valu'd by his face , Above his fact ? " Here's one out - liv'd his Peeres , And told forth fourescore yeares ; He vexed time , and busied ...
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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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