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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... fall a logge , at last , dry , bold , " and seare : A Lillie of a Day , Is fairer farre , in May , Although it fall , and die that night ; It was the Plant , and flowre of light . In small proportions , we just beauties see : And in ...
... fall a logge , at last , dry , bold , " and seare : A Lillie of a Day , Is fairer farre , in May , Although it fall , and die that night ; It was the Plant , and flowre of light . In small proportions , we just beauties see : And in ...
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... fall himselfe to hell . But me , oh never let me , Spirits , forget That glorious day , when I your standard bore , And scorning in the second place to sit , With you assaulted heaven , his yoke forswore . My dauntlesse heart yet longs ...
... fall himselfe to hell . But me , oh never let me , Spirits , forget That glorious day , when I your standard bore , And scorning in the second place to sit , With you assaulted heaven , his yoke forswore . My dauntlesse heart yet longs ...
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... fall With what deep murmurs through times silent stealth Doth thy transparent , cool and watry wealth Here flowing fall , And chide , and call , As if his liquid , loose Retinue staid Lingring , and were of this steep place afraid , The ...
... fall With what deep murmurs through times silent stealth Doth thy transparent , cool and watry wealth Here flowing fall , And chide , and call , As if his liquid , loose Retinue staid Lingring , and were of this steep place afraid , The ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND | 13 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Copyright | |
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