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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... thee ; and enforc'd , must say To all thy witching beauties , Goe , Away . But if thy whimpring looks doe ask me why ? Then know , that Nature bids thee goe , not I. ' Tis her erroneous self has made a braine Uncapable of such a ...
... thee ; and enforc'd , must say To all thy witching beauties , Goe , Away . But if thy whimpring looks doe ask me why ? Then know , that Nature bids thee goe , not I. ' Tis her erroneous self has made a braine Uncapable of such a ...
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... thee , too remisse , Too temp'rate in embracing ? Tell me , ha's desire To thee - ward dy'd i'th'embers , and no fire Left in this rak't - up Ash - heap , as a mark To testifie the glowing of a spark ? Have I divorc't thee onely to ...
... thee , too remisse , Too temp'rate in embracing ? Tell me , ha's desire To thee - ward dy'd i'th'embers , and no fire Left in this rak't - up Ash - heap , as a mark To testifie the glowing of a spark ? Have I divorc't thee onely to ...
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... thee Herrick to Anacreon , Quaffing his full - crown'd bowles of burning Wine , And in his Raptures speaking Lines of Thine , Like to His subjects ; and as his Frantick- Looks , shew him truly Bacchanalian12 like , Besmear'd with Grapes ...
... thee Herrick to Anacreon , Quaffing his full - crown'd bowles of burning Wine , And in his Raptures speaking Lines of Thine , Like to His subjects ; and as his Frantick- Looks , shew him truly Bacchanalian12 like , Besmear'd with Grapes ...
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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