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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... body , how poore a wretched thing is that ? wee cannot expresse it so fast , as it growes worse and worse . That body which scarce three minutes since was such a house , as that that soule , which made but one step from thence to Heaven ...
... body , how poore a wretched thing is that ? wee cannot expresse it so fast , as it growes worse and worse . That body which scarce three minutes since was such a house , as that that soule , which made but one step from thence to Heaven ...
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... body conjoyned to the soul , and body separated from it . Lucian spoke much truth in jest , when he said that part of Hercules which proceeded from Alchmena perished , that from Jupiter remained im- mortall . Thus Socrates was content ...
... body conjoyned to the soul , and body separated from it . Lucian spoke much truth in jest , when he said that part of Hercules which proceeded from Alchmena perished , that from Jupiter remained im- mortall . Thus Socrates was content ...
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... BODY THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN It wax'd more white and sweet than they . With. Oh let our Voice his Praise exalt , Till it arrive at Heavens Vault : Which thence ( perhaps ) rebounding , may Eccho beyond the Mexique ...
... BODY THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN It wax'd more white and sweet than they . With. Oh let our Voice his Praise exalt , Till it arrive at Heavens Vault : Which thence ( perhaps ) rebounding , may Eccho beyond the Mexique ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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