Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Macmillan, 1951 - 498 pages 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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Page 55
... desire , and many Things to 10 feare : And yet that commonly is the Case of Kings ; Who being at the highest , want Matter of desire , which makes their Mindes more Languishing ; And have many Representations of Perills and Shadowes ...
... desire , and many Things to 10 feare : And yet that commonly is the Case of Kings ; Who being at the highest , want Matter of desire , which makes their Mindes more Languishing ; And have many Representations of Perills and Shadowes ...
Page 220
... desire , evil anything for which we feel aver- sion ; and it is felicity at which we perpetually aim - perpetually " because life itself is but motion , and can never be without desire , nor without fear , no more than without sense ...
... desire , evil anything for which we feel aver- sion ; and it is felicity at which we perpetually aim - perpetually " because life itself is but motion , and can never be without desire , nor without fear , no more than without sense ...
Page 395
... desires not , or desires what he hath not , or desires amisse ; he that composes his spirit to the present accident , hath va- riety of instances3 for his vertue , but none to trouble him , because his desires enlarge not beyond his ...
... desires not , or desires what he hath not , or desires amisse ; he that composes his spirit to the present accident , hath va- riety of instances3 for his vertue , but none to trouble him , because his desires enlarge not beyond his ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1 Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Helen Constance White |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Editor | Helen Constance White |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1951 |
| Length | 498 pages |
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