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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... bring to man a new power to control the forces of the natural world - we are still impressed by the air of tremendous ex- citement which he could evoke as , in the first book of the Advancement and in the famous description of the four ...
... bring to man a new power to control the forces of the natural world - we are still impressed by the air of tremendous ex- citement which he could evoke as , in the first book of the Advancement and in the famous description of the four ...
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... bring a capon , some a rurall cake , Some nuts , some apples ; some that thinke they make The better cheeses , bring'hem ; or else send By their ripe daughters , whom they would commend This way to husbands ; and whose baskets beare An ...
... bring a capon , some a rurall cake , Some nuts , some apples ; some that thinke they make The better cheeses , bring'hem ; or else send By their ripe daughters , whom they would commend This way to husbands ; and whose baskets beare An ...
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... bring in one Consent , Heart , and Voice , and Instrument . Musick adde of ev'ry kinde ; Sound the Trump , the Cornet winde . Strike the Violl , touch the Lute . Let nor Tongue , nor String be mute : Not a Creature dumb be found , That ...
... bring in one Consent , Heart , and Voice , and Instrument . Musick adde of ev'ry kinde ; Sound the Trump , the Cornet winde . Strike the Violl , touch the Lute . Let nor Tongue , nor String be mute : Not a Creature dumb be found , That ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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