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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... Muse bad , Bedford write , and that was shee . XCIII . To Lucy , Countesse of Bedford , With Mr. Donnes Satyres LUCY , you brightnesse of our spheare , who are Life of the Muses day , their morning - starre ! If workes ( not th'authors ) ...
... Muse bad , Bedford write , and that was shee . XCIII . To Lucy , Countesse of Bedford , With Mr. Donnes Satyres LUCY , you brightnesse of our spheare , who are Life of the Muses day , their morning - starre ! If workes ( not th'authors ) ...
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... Muse was hard bound , and th'issue of's brain Was seldom brought forth but with trouble and pain . All that were present there did agree , A Laureat Muse should be easie and free , And Yet sure ' twas not that , but ' twas thought that ...
... Muse was hard bound , and th'issue of's brain Was seldom brought forth but with trouble and pain . All that were present there did agree , A Laureat Muse should be easie and free , And Yet sure ' twas not that , but ' twas thought that ...
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... Muses thus ? Wanton as Girles , as Old Wives , Fabulous ! Thy spotless Muse , like Mary , did contain The boundless Godhead ; she did well disdain That her eternal Verse employ'd should be On a less subject then Eternitie ; And for a ...
... Muses thus ? Wanton as Girles , as Old Wives , Fabulous ! Thy spotless Muse , like Mary , did contain The boundless Godhead ; she did well disdain That her eternal Verse employ'd should be On a less subject then Eternitie ; And for a ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND | 13 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
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