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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... appear He understood more than any man there , And did merit the Bayes above all the rest , But the Mounsier " was modest , and silence confest . During these troubles in the Court was hid One that Apollo soon mist , little Cid ; " And ...
... appear He understood more than any man there , And did merit the Bayes above all the rest , But the Mounsier " was modest , and silence confest . During these troubles in the Court was hid One that Apollo soon mist , little Cid ; " And ...
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... appear , Joy and amazement her did strike , share ; To him no Author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient Gold , Nor with Ben Johnson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of Poets , and of ...
... appear , Joy and amazement her did strike , share ; To him no Author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient Gold , Nor with Ben Johnson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of Poets , and of ...
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... appear ? Wouldst thou a white most perfect show , Thou must at all no garment wear : Thou wilt seem much whiter so , Then Winter when ' tis clad with snow . ' Tis not the Linnen shews so fair : Her skin shines through , and makes it ...
... appear ? Wouldst thou a white most perfect show , Thou must at all no garment wear : Thou wilt seem much whiter so , Then Winter when ' tis clad with snow . ' Tis not the Linnen shews so fair : Her skin shines through , and makes it ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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