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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... Nature is Mighty , and therefore the Victory hard , the Degrees had need be ; First to Stay and Arrest Nature in Time ; Like to Him , that would say over the Foure and Twenty Letters , when he was Angry : Then to Goe A sudden , bold ...
... Nature is Mighty , and therefore the Victory hard , the Degrees had need be ; First to Stay and Arrest Nature in Time ; Like to Him , that would say over the Foure and Twenty Letters , when he was Angry : Then to Goe A sudden , bold ...
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... Nature , and specially humane Nature ; and is the true and naturall Colour . But that which is taken out of Books ( the ordinary boxes of counterfeit Complexion ) shews well or ill , as it hath more or lesse resemblance with the Natural ...
... Nature , and specially humane Nature ; and is the true and naturall Colour . But that which is taken out of Books ( the ordinary boxes of counterfeit Complexion ) shews well or ill , as it hath more or lesse resemblance with the Natural ...
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... nature the works of God , whose hand and instrument she tions unto her , is to devolve the honor of the principall agent , upon the instrument ; which if with reason we may doe , then let our hammers rise up and boast they have built ...
... nature the works of God , whose hand and instrument she tions unto her , is to devolve the honor of the principall agent , upon the instrument ; which if with reason we may doe , then let our hammers rise up and boast they have built ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
Copyright | |
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