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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... give Nature all : Thy Art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part . For though the Poets matter , Nature be , His Art doth give the fashion . And , that he , Who casts to write a living line , must sweat , 20 30 40 50 ( Such as ...
... give Nature all : Thy Art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part . For though the Poets matter , Nature be , His Art doth give the fashion . And , that he , Who casts to write a living line , must sweat , 20 30 40 50 ( Such as ...
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... Give me a looke , give me a face , That makes simplicitie a grace ; Robes loosely flowing , haire as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me , Then all th'adulteries of art . Thy strike mine eyes , but not my heart . [ The Faeries ...
... Give me a looke , give me a face , That makes simplicitie a grace ; Robes loosely flowing , haire as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me , Then all th'adulteries of art . Thy strike mine eyes , but not my heart . [ The Faeries ...
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... give themselves away , And even that power , that should deny , betray . " Who gives constrain'd , but his own fear reviles 330 340 Not thank't , but scorn'd ; nor are they gifts , but spoils . " Thus Kings , by grasping more than they ...
... give themselves away , And even that power , that should deny , betray . " Who gives constrain'd , but his own fear reviles 330 340 Not thank't , but scorn'd ; nor are they gifts , but spoils . " Thus Kings , by grasping more than they ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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 |
| Length | 498 pages |
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