Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Volume 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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100 Ah no , fair Cælia , in thy sunne - like eye Heav'n sweetly smiles ; those starres soft loving fire , And living heat , not burning flames inspire : Love's self enthron'd in thy brows ivorie , And every grace in heavens liverie : My ...
100 Ah no , fair Cælia , in thy sunne - like eye Heav'n sweetly smiles ; those starres soft loving fire , And living heat , not burning flames inspire : Love's self enthron'd in thy brows ivorie , And every grace in heavens liverie : My ...
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So ( though ' gainst Natures course ) fire may be quencht With fire , and water be with water drencht ; Perhaps my restlesse soule , tyr'de with persuit Of mortall beauty , seeking without fruit Contentment there , which hath not ...
So ( though ' gainst Natures course ) fire may be quencht With fire , and water be with water drencht ; Perhaps my restlesse soule , tyr'de with persuit Of mortall beauty , seeking without fruit Contentment there , which hath not ...
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Each heavnly word by whose hid flame Our hard Hearts shall strike fire , the same Shall flourish on thy browes , and be Both fire to us and flame to thee ; Whose light shall live bright in thy FACE By glory , in our hearts by grace .
Each heavnly word by whose hid flame Our hard Hearts shall strike fire , the same Shall flourish on thy browes , and be Both fire to us and flame to thee ; Whose light shall live bright in thy FACE By glory , in our hearts by grace .
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Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Francis Bacon | 43 |
Copyright | |
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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 |
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