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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... pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tost upon the Sea : A pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle , and to see a Battaile , and the Adventures thereof , below : But no pleasure is comparable , to the standing , upon ...
... pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tost upon the Sea : A pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle , and to see a Battaile , and the Adventures thereof , below : But no pleasure is comparable , to the standing , upon ...
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... PLEASURE On these downy Pillows lye , Whose soft Plumes will thither fly : On these Roses strow'd so plain Lest one Leaf thy Side should strain . SOUL My gentler Rest is on a Thought , Conscious of doing what I ought . PLEASURE If thou ...
... PLEASURE On these downy Pillows lye , Whose soft Plumes will thither fly : On these Roses strow'd so plain Lest one Leaf thy Side should strain . SOUL My gentler Rest is on a Thought , Conscious of doing what I ought . PLEASURE If thou ...
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... PLEASURE Where so e're thy Foot shall go The minted Gold shall lie ; Till thou purchase all below , And want new Worlds to buy . 60 SOUL What Friends , if to my self untrue ? What Slaves , unless I captive you ? PLEASURE Thou shalt know ...
... PLEASURE Where so e're thy Foot shall go The minted Gold shall lie ; Till thou purchase all below , And want new Worlds to buy . 60 SOUL What Friends , if to my self untrue ? What Slaves , unless I captive you ? PLEASURE Thou shalt know ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND | 13 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Copyright | |
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