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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... or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lye A little further , to make thee a roome : Thou art a Moniment , without a tombe , And art alive still , while thy Booke doth live , And we have wits to read , and praise to give .
... or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lye A little further , to make thee a roome : Thou art a Moniment , without a tombe , And art alive still , while thy Booke doth live , And we have wits to read , and praise to give .
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And thy cristall - shining quiver ; Give unto the flying ha Earth , les not thy envious shade Space to breathe , how short soever : Dare it selfe to interpose ; Thou that mak'st a day of night , CYNTHIAS shining orbe ...
And thy cristall - shining quiver ; Give unto the flying ha Earth , les not thy envious shade Space to breathe , how short soever : Dare it selfe to interpose ; Thou that mak'st a day of night , CYNTHIAS shining orbe ...
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The Subjects arm'd , the more their Princes gave , Th'advantage only took the more to crave : Till Kings by giving , give themselves away , And even that power , that should deny , betray . " Who gives constrain'd , but his own fear ...
The Subjects arm'd , the more their Princes gave , Th'advantage only took the more to crave : Till Kings by giving , give themselves away , And even that power , that should deny , betray . " Who gives constrain'd , but his own fear ...
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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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