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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It is true , that in compendious Treatises for practise , that fourme is not to bee disallowed . But in the true handling of knowledge , men ought not to fall either on the one side into the veyne of Velleius the Epicurean : Nil tam ...
It is true , that in compendious Treatises for practise , that fourme is not to bee disallowed . But in the true handling of knowledge , men ought not to fall either on the one side into the veyne of Velleius the Epicurean : Nil tam ...
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Or doth a feare , that men are true , torment you ? Oh we are not , be not you so , Let mee , and doe you , twenty know . Rob mee , but binde me not , and let me goe . Must I , who came to travaile thorow you , Grow your fixt subject ...
Or doth a feare , that men are true , torment you ? Oh we are not , be not you so , Let mee , and doe you , twenty know . Rob mee , but binde me not , and let me goe . Must I , who came to travaile thorow you , Grow your fixt subject ...
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Make not thy selfe a Page , To that strumpet the Stage , But sing high and aloofe , 30 Safe from the wolves black jaw , and the dull Asses hoofe . Rime the rack of finest wits , That expresseth but by fits , True Conceipt .
Make not thy selfe a Page , To that strumpet the Stage , But sing high and aloofe , 30 Safe from the wolves black jaw , and the dull Asses hoofe . Rime the rack of finest wits , That expresseth but by fits , True Conceipt .
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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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