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10 For as thou dost impart thy grace , The greater shall our glorie be . The measure of our joyes is in this place , The stuffe with thee . Let me not languish then , and spend A life as barren to thy praise , As is the dust , to which ...
10 For as thou dost impart thy grace , The greater shall our glorie be . The measure of our joyes is in this place , The stuffe with thee . Let me not languish then , and spend A life as barren to thy praise , As is the dust , to which ...
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10 So though a Virgin , yet a Bride To every Grace , she justifi'd A chaste Poligamie , and dy'd . Learne from hence ( Reader ) what small trust We owe this world , where vertue must Fraile as our flesh , crumble to dust .
10 So though a Virgin , yet a Bride To every Grace , she justifi'd A chaste Poligamie , and dy'd . Learne from hence ( Reader ) what small trust We owe this world , where vertue must Fraile as our flesh , crumble to dust .
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90 from DAVIDEIS BOOK 1156 58 10 20 With sober pace an heav'enly Maid walks in , Her looks all fair ; no sign of Native sin " Through her whole body writ ; Immoderate Grace Spoke things far more then humane in her face .
90 from DAVIDEIS BOOK 1156 58 10 20 With sober pace an heav'enly Maid walks in , Her looks all fair ; no sign of Native sin " Through her whole body writ ; Immoderate Grace Spoke things far more then humane in her face .
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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 |
John Donne | 71 |
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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1959 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2018 |
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