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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... sleep : what ailes my Dear ? What ailes my Darling thus to cry ? Be still , my Childe , and lend thine ear , To heare me sing thy Lullaby . My pretty Lambe forbear to weep : Be still my Dear ; sweet Babie sleep . Thou blessed Soul ...
... sleep : what ailes my Dear ? What ailes my Darling thus to cry ? Be still , my Childe , and lend thine ear , To heare me sing thy Lullaby . My pretty Lambe forbear to weep : Be still my Dear ; sweet Babie sleep . Thou blessed Soul ...
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... sleep ; wherein the dulnesse of that sense 236 230 in Paris , where bodies soon consume 231 mausoleum or tomb ; the castle of St. Angelo in Rome 232 whether wasting of the flesh or funeral pyre dissolve the corpse is of no moment sleep ...
... sleep ; wherein the dulnesse of that sense 236 230 in Paris , where bodies soon consume 231 mausoleum or tomb ; the castle of St. Angelo in Rome 232 whether wasting of the flesh or funeral pyre dissolve the corpse is of no moment sleep ...
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... Sleep , sleep again , my Lyre ; For thou can'st never tell my humble tale , In sounds that will prevail , Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire ; All thy vain mirth lay by , Bid thy strings silent ly , Sleep , sleep again , my Lyre , and ...
... Sleep , sleep again , my Lyre ; For thou can'st never tell my humble tale , In sounds that will prevail , Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire ; All thy vain mirth lay by , Bid thy strings silent ly , Sleep , sleep again , my Lyre , and ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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