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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This I confesse about seven yeares past , with some others of affinitie thereto , for my private exercise and satisfaction , I had at leisurable houres composed ; which being communicated unto one , it became common unto many , and was ...
This I confesse about seven yeares past , with some others of affinitie thereto , for my private exercise and satisfaction , I had at leisurable houres composed ; which being communicated unto one , it became common unto many , and was ...
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tions unto her , is to devolve the honor of the principall agent , upon the instrument ; which if with reason we may doe , then let our hammers rise up and boast they have built our houses , and our pens receive the honour of our ...
tions unto her , is to devolve the honor of the principall agent , upon the instrument ; which if with reason we may doe , then let our hammers rise up and boast they have built our houses , and our pens receive the honour of our ...
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And also agreeable unto their opin- That they carried them out of the world with their feet forward , not inconsonant unto reason : As contrary unto the native posture of man , and his production first ions , while they bid adieu unto ...
And also agreeable unto their opin- That they carried them out of the world with their feet forward , not inconsonant unto reason : As contrary unto the native posture of man , and his production first ions , while they bid adieu unto ...
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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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