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It was an high speech of Seneca , ( after Certainly , Vertue is like pretious Odours , the manner of the Stoickes ) That the good most fragrant , when they are incensed , " things , which belong to Prosperity , are to or crushed : For ...
It was an high speech of Seneca , ( after Certainly , Vertue is like pretious Odours , the manner of the Stoickes ) That the good most fragrant , when they are incensed , " things , which belong to Prosperity , are to or crushed : For ...
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The second , that it pusever envieth Vertue in others . For Mens leth " and perplexeth the Conceits of Mindes , will either feed upon their owne many ; that perhaps would otherwise co- Good , or upon others Evill ; And who operate with ...
The second , that it pusever envieth Vertue in others . For Mens leth " and perplexeth the Conceits of Mindes , will either feed upon their owne many ; that perhaps would otherwise co- Good , or upon others Evill ; And who operate with ...
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But as some Serpents poyson hurteth not , Except it be from the live Serpent shot , So doth her vertue need her here , to fit That unto us ; shee working more than it . But shee , in whom to such maturity Vertue was ...
But as some Serpents poyson hurteth not , Except it be from the live Serpent shot , So doth her vertue need her here , to fit That unto us ; shee working more than it . But shee , in whom to such maturity Vertue was ...
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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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