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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O , would'st thou adde like hand , to all the rest ! Or , better worke ! were thy glad countrey blest , To have her storie woven in thy thred ; MINERVAES loome was never richer spred . For who can master those great parts like thee ...
O , would'st thou adde like hand , to all the rest ! Or , better worke ! were thy glad countrey blest , To have her storie woven in thy thred ; MINERVAES loome was never richer spred . For who can master those great parts like thee ...
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O let me take thee at the bound , 60 As Samson bore the doores away , " Leaping with thee from sev'n to sev'n , " Christs hands , though nail'd , wrought our Till that we both , being toss'd from earth , salvation , Flie hand in hand to ...
O let me take thee at the bound , 60 As Samson bore the doores away , " Leaping with thee from sev'n to sev'n , " Christs hands , though nail'd , wrought our Till that we both , being toss'd from earth , salvation , Flie hand in hand to ...
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... to which his answer Suddenly from his Bed or Couch , call'd was , That he had past a Conflict with his last Enemy , and had overcome him , by for one of his Instruments , took it into hand , and said the merits of his Master Jesus .
... to which his answer Suddenly from his Bed or Couch , call'd was , That he had past a Conflict with his last Enemy , and had overcome him , by for one of his Instruments , took it into hand , and said the merits of his Master Jesus .
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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 |
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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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