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 193
... Fair - cruel maid , most cruel , fairer ever , How hath foul rigour stol'n into thy heart ? And on a comick stage hath learnt thee art To play a Tyrant - tragical deceiver ? To promise mercy , but perform it never ? To look more sweet ...
... Fair - cruel maid , most cruel , fairer ever , How hath foul rigour stol'n into thy heart ? And on a comick stage hath learnt thee art To play a Tyrant - tragical deceiver ? To promise mercy , but perform it never ? To look more sweet ...
Page 392
... fair fallacy by thee We are not WHERE nor What we be , But WHAT and WHERE we would be . Thus art thou Our absent PRESENCE , and our future Now . Faith's sister ! nurse of fair desire ! Fear's antidote ! a wise and well - stay'd fire ...
... fair fallacy by thee We are not WHERE nor What we be , But WHAT and WHERE we would be . Thus art thou Our absent PRESENCE , and our future Now . Faith's sister ! nurse of fair desire ! Fear's antidote ! a wise and well - stay'd fire ...
Page 492
... Fair , order'd lights ( whose motion without noise , 478 Fair , that you may truly know , 351 Faire Daffadills , we weep to see , 250 Faire pledges of a fruitfull Tree , 252 Faire Virtue , The Mistresse of Phil'arete . Sonnet 4 , 209 ...
... Fair , order'd lights ( whose motion without noise , 478 Fair , that you may truly know , 351 Faire Daffadills , we weep to see , 250 Faire pledges of a fruitfull Tree , 252 Faire Virtue , The Mistresse of Phil'arete . Sonnet 4 , 209 ...
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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 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 498 pages |
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