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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... seems to have been a man of some education . He received his early schooling at the new Perse School , and when he ... seems to have kept up his connection with Oxford , achieving such distinction in the field of casuistry that in the ...
... seems to have been a man of some education . He received his early schooling at the new Perse School , and when he ... seems to have kept up his connection with Oxford , achieving such distinction in the field of casuistry that in the ...
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... Seems at this distance but a darker cloud : 20 And is to him who rightly things esteems , No other in effect than what it seems : 30 Where , with like hast , though several ways , they run Some to undo , and some to be undone ; While ...
... Seems at this distance but a darker cloud : 20 And is to him who rightly things esteems , No other in effect than what it seems : 30 Where , with like hast , though several ways , they run Some to undo , and some to be undone ; While ...
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... Seems with the Flow'rs a Flow'r to be . And think so still ! though not compare With Breath so sweet , or Cheek so ... Seem to their Staves the Ensigns furl'd . Then in some Flow'rs beloved Hut Each Bee as Sentinel is shut ; 70 And ...
... Seems with the Flow'rs a Flow'r to be . And think so still ! though not compare With Breath so sweet , or Cheek so ... Seem to their Staves the Ensigns furl'd . Then in some Flow'rs beloved Hut Each Bee as Sentinel is shut ; 70 And ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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