Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose: Wishes : to his (supposed) mistresseMacmillan, 1951 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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... Lord Bacon was in sci- ence . And his mind clearly felt the same constitutional need as did Bacon's for a clear explanation of the grounds of his certainty . It is not too much to say that Herbert went at religion very much more like a ...
... Lord Bacon was in sci- ence . And his mind clearly felt the same constitutional need as did Bacon's for a clear explanation of the grounds of his certainty . It is not too much to say that Herbert went at religion very much more like a ...
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... Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the nephew of Sir William Cecil ( later Lord Burghley ) , Queen Elizabeth's Lord Treasurer , he grew up in the shadow of the Court . With his brother Anthony he went up to Trinity College , Cambridge ...
... Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the nephew of Sir William Cecil ( later Lord Burghley ) , Queen Elizabeth's Lord Treasurer , he grew up in the shadow of the Court . With his brother Anthony he went up to Trinity College , Cambridge ...
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... Lord , how sweet and clean , 275 How rich , O Lord ! how fresh thy visits are !, 476 How vainly men themselves amaze , 461 Hydrotaphia , 335 Hymn . To Light , 442 Hymne to God My God , in My Sicknesse , 104 I am a man of war and might ...
... Lord , how sweet and clean , 275 How rich , O Lord ! how fresh thy visits are !, 476 How vainly men themselves amaze , 461 Hydrotaphia , 335 Hymn . To Light , 442 Hymne to God My God , in My Sicknesse , 104 I am a man of war and might ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
Copyright | |
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