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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... hast thou rendred him in all his bounds , And all his numbers , both of sense , and sounds . But when I read that speciall piece , restor'd , Where NERO falls , and GALBA is ador'd , To thine owne proper3 I ascribe then more ; And ...
... hast thou rendred him in all his bounds , And all his numbers , both of sense , and sounds . But when I read that speciall piece , restor'd , Where NERO falls , and GALBA is ador'd , To thine owne proper3 I ascribe then more ; And ...
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... hast no lantherne , whereof tales are told ; Or stayre , or courts ; but stand'st an ancient pile , And these grudg'd at , art reverenc'd the while . Thou joy'st in better markes , of soyle , of ayre , Of wood , of water : therein thou ...
... hast no lantherne , whereof tales are told ; Or stayre , or courts ; but stand'st an ancient pile , And these grudg'd at , art reverenc'd the while . Thou joy'st in better markes , of soyle , of ayre , Of wood , of water : therein thou ...
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... hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell , A little house , whose humble Roof Is weather - proof ; Under the sparres of which I lie Both soft , and drie ; Where Thou my chamber for to ward138 136 is at its dregs 138 keep in safety 140 ...
... hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell , A little house , whose humble Roof Is weather - proof ; Under the sparres of which I lie Both soft , and drie ; Where Thou my chamber for to ward138 136 is at its dregs 138 keep in safety 140 ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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