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 84
... thou shouldst have new rewards in store ; Thou canst not every day give me thy heart , If thou canst give it , then thou never gavest it : Loves riddles are , that though thy heart depart , It stayes at home , and thou with losing ...
... thou shouldst have new rewards in store ; Thou canst not every day give me thy heart , If thou canst give it , then thou never gavest it : Loves riddles are , that though thy heart depart , It stayes at home , and thou with losing ...
Page 210
... thou please thou canst provide A place for her , securely to abide , Amid the Westerne wildernesse ( and where Scarce glimmerings of thy favours yet appeare ) By moulding out the Heathen Salvages To be a people far surpassing these ...
... thou please thou canst provide A place for her , securely to abide , Amid the Westerne wildernesse ( and where Scarce glimmerings of thy favours yet appeare ) By moulding out the Heathen Salvages To be a people far surpassing these ...
Page 399
... thou not beare it cheerfully and nobly , if thou wert sure that within a certain space Judas for his office , " or Saul for his king- dom , " or Absalom for his beauty , " or Achitophel for his policy ? " It is likely he would wish all ...
... thou not beare it cheerfully and nobly , if thou wert sure that within a certain space Judas for his office , " or Saul for his king- dom , " or Absalom for his beauty , " or Achitophel for his policy ? " It is likely he would wish all ...
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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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