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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... present the whole , or substantial portions , of a few works rather than fragments of a larger number , and to present them with as little editorial intervention as possible . To that end the materials chosen have been ar- ranged in ...
... present the whole , or substantial portions , of a few works rather than fragments of a larger number , and to present them with as little editorial intervention as possible . To that end the materials chosen have been ar- ranged in ...
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... Present Wit ; And if he Reade litle , he had need have much Cunning , to seeme to know that , he doth not . Histories make men Wise ; Poets Witty ; The Mathematicks Subtill ; Naturall 20 Philosophy deepe ; Morall Grave ; Logick and ...
... Present Wit ; And if he Reade litle , he had need have much Cunning , to seeme to know that , he doth not . Histories make men Wise ; Poets Witty ; The Mathematicks Subtill ; Naturall 20 Philosophy deepe ; Morall Grave ; Logick and ...
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... present Occasion with Arguments ; Tales with Reasons , Asking of Questions , with telling of Opinions ; and Jest with 20 Earnest : For it is a dull Thing to Tire , and , as we say now , to Jade , any Thing too farre . As for Jest ...
... present Occasion with Arguments ; Tales with Reasons , Asking of Questions , with telling of Opinions ; and Jest with 20 Earnest : For it is a dull Thing to Tire , and , as we say now , to Jade , any Thing too farre . As for Jest ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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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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