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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... keep cheap Nature even , and upright ; To coole , not cocker Appetite . Thus thou can'st tearcely " live to satisfie The belly chiefly ; not the eye : 10 20 10 Keeping the barking stomach wisely quiet , Lesse with a neat1s then needfull ...
... keep cheap Nature even , and upright ; To coole , not cocker Appetite . Thus thou can'st tearcely " live to satisfie The belly chiefly ; not the eye : 10 20 10 Keeping the barking stomach wisely quiet , Lesse with a neat1s then needfull ...
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... keep Me , while I sleep . Low is my porch , as is my Fate , Both void of state ; And yet the threshold of my doore ... keeps my little loafe of Bread Unchipt , unflead : " 139 Some brittle sticks of Thorne or Briar Make me a fire , Close ...
... keep Me , while I sleep . Low is my porch , as is my Fate , Both void of state ; And yet the threshold of my doore ... keeps my little loafe of Bread Unchipt , unflead : " 139 Some brittle sticks of Thorne or Briar Make me a fire , Close ...
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... keep the rest , ' But keep them with repining restlesnesse : Let him be rich and wearie , that at least , If goodness leade him not , yet wearinesse May tosse him to my breast . The Flower 115 How fresh , O Lord , how sweet and clean ...
... keep the rest , ' But keep them with repining restlesnesse : Let him be rich and wearie , that at least , If goodness leade him not , yet wearinesse May tosse him to my breast . The Flower 115 How fresh , O Lord , how sweet and clean ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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