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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... better sight , nor a better knowledge , but there is no other sight , no other knowledge proposed , or mentioned , or intimated , or imagined 204 other knowledge is ignorance ; And then we shall see how there is a twofold sight of God ...
... better sight , nor a better knowledge , but there is no other sight , no other knowledge proposed , or mentioned , or intimated , or imagined 204 other knowledge is ignorance ; And then we shall see how there is a twofold sight of God ...
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... better have left owne experience : which , if wee will use , to write , or speake better , but that they and apply , wee have better meanes to pro- that heare them judge worse ; Non illi pejus nounce . It is true they open'd the gates ...
... better have left owne experience : which , if wee will use , to write , or speake better , but that they and apply , wee have better meanes to pro- that heare them judge worse ; Non illi pejus nounce . It is true they open'd the gates ...
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... better to enjoy her with peace , then to hazzard her on a bat- tell : If therefore there rise any doubts in my way , I doe forget them , or at least de- fer them , till my better setled judgement , and more manly reason be able to ...
... better to enjoy her with peace , then to hazzard her on a bat- tell : If therefore there rise any doubts in my way , I doe forget them , or at least de- fer them , till my better setled judgement , and more manly reason be able to ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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