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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Page 67
... stand , and not Counsels to give advise ; the dammage is infinite that 10 ing of two extreamities ; The one Antiquity , Sciences have received thereby , as the principall cause that hath kept them lowe , at a stay without groweth or ...
... stand , and not Counsels to give advise ; the dammage is infinite that 10 ing of two extreamities ; The one Antiquity , Sciences have received thereby , as the principall cause that hath kept them lowe , at a stay without groweth or ...
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... stand inquiring right , is not to stray ; To sleepe , or runne wrong , is : on a huge hill , Cragged , and steep , Truth stands , and hee that will Reach her , about must , and about must goe ; And what the hills suddennes resists ...
... stand inquiring right , is not to stray ; To sleepe , or runne wrong , is : on a huge hill , Cragged , and steep , Truth stands , and hee that will Reach her , about must , and about must goe ; And what the hills suddennes resists ...
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... Stand . Goe now , and tell out dayes summ'd up with feares , And make them yeares ; 80 acts , what he actually is an actual soldier , and in the figurative sense used by St. Paul and by the Stoics , a soldier in the battle of life ...
... Stand . Goe now , and tell out dayes summ'd up with feares , And make them yeares ; 80 acts , what he actually is an actual soldier , and in the figurative sense used by St. Paul and by the Stoics , a soldier in the battle of life ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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