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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... Rise so high like a Rocke , that one might thinke The floating Moone would shipwrack there , and sinke ? Seas are so deepe , that Whales being strooke to day , Perchance to morrow , scarse at middle way Of their wish'd journies end ...
... Rise so high like a Rocke , that one might thinke The floating Moone would shipwrack there , and sinke ? Seas are so deepe , that Whales being strooke to day , Perchance to morrow , scarse at middle way Of their wish'd journies end ...
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... rise when Chanticlere Warnes the last Watch ; but with the Dawne dost rise To work , but first to sacrifice ; Making thy peace with heav'n , for some late fault , With Holy - meale , and spirting - salt . " Which done , thy painfull ...
... rise when Chanticlere Warnes the last Watch ; but with the Dawne dost rise To work , but first to sacrifice ; Making thy peace with heav'n , for some late fault , With Holy - meale , and spirting - salt . " Which done , thy painfull ...
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... Rise heart ; thy Lord is risen . Sing his praise Without delayes , Who takes thee by the hand , that thou likewise With him mayst rise : That , as his death calcined thee to dust , His life may make thee gold , and much more , just ...
... Rise heart ; thy Lord is risen . Sing his praise Without delayes , Who takes thee by the hand , that thou likewise With him mayst rise : That , as his death calcined thee to dust , His life may make thee gold , and much more , just ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
Copyright | |
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