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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... lines are common , with balance of noun and qualifying epithet in each half of the line , to give it rhetorical and musical pattern . The music stands in its own beauty , as an independent statement of the theme ( though often ...
... lines are common , with balance of noun and qualifying epithet in each half of the line , to give it rhetorical and musical pattern . The music stands in its own beauty , as an independent statement of the theme ( though often ...
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... lines ! Which were so richly spun , and woven so fit , As , since , she will vouchsafe no other Wit . The merry Greeke , tart Aristophanes , Neat Terence , witty Plautus , now not please ; But antiquated , and deserted lye As they were ...
... lines ! Which were so richly spun , and woven so fit , As , since , she will vouchsafe no other Wit . The merry Greeke , tart Aristophanes , Neat Terence , witty Plautus , now not please ; But antiquated , and deserted lye As they were ...
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... line . Atter- bury's introduction to the edition of 1690 defined how fully Waller had realised the ideal first set ... lines divided near the middle . Certainly it is only by critical license that we can speak of his saying what oft ...
... line . Atter- bury's introduction to the edition of 1690 defined how fully Waller had realised the ideal first set ... lines divided near the middle . Certainly it is only by critical license that we can speak of his saying what oft ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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alwayes beauty beleeve Bemerton Ben Jonson body brest bright Christ Chub Church creatures dayes dead death delight divine Donne doth drest earth English Envy eyes F. R. Leavis fair faith fancy farre fear fire fish flames flowers give glory Gondibert grace grone hand hath heart heaven Henry Vaughan Herbert Hobbes holy honour hope John Donne Jonson judgement King learned light live look Lord metaphysical poets mind Muse Musick Nature ne'r never night noble Philosophy Pisc pleasure poems poetry Poets praise Puritans reason Religio Medici Religion Schollers selfe sense shalt shee shew shine sing sleep Song soul spirit spring starres Sunne sweet teares tell Text thee Theophrastus thine things thou art thought tion Trout truth unto verse vertue weep wind wings wise
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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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