Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Macmillan, 1951 - 498 pages 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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Page 106
... Creatures , my thoughts , is with the Sunne , and be- yond the Sunne , overtakes the Sunne , and overgoes the Sunne in one pace , one steppe , everywhere . And then as the other world produces Serpents , and Vipers , malignant , and ...
... Creatures , my thoughts , is with the Sunne , and be- yond the Sunne , overtakes the Sunne , and overgoes the Sunne in one pace , one steppe , everywhere . And then as the other world produces Serpents , and Vipers , malignant , and ...
Page 114
... Creatures . God affords no man the com- fort , the false comfort of Atheism : He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself , so far , as seriously to thinke there is no God . He must pull out his own eyes , and ...
... Creatures . God affords no man the com- fort , the false comfort of Atheism : He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself , so far , as seriously to thinke there is no God . He must pull out his own eyes , and ...
Page 321
... creatures , re- turne the duty of a devout and learned admiration . Sect . 14 . There is but one first cause , 00 Sect . 15 . Natura nihil agit frustra , " is the onely indisputable axiome in Phi- losophy ; there are no Grotesques in na ...
... creatures , re- turne the duty of a devout and learned admiration . Sect . 14 . There is but one first cause , 00 Sect . 15 . Natura nihil agit frustra , " is the onely indisputable axiome in Phi- losophy ; there are no Grotesques in na ...
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