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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... thee , too remisse , Too temp'rate in embracing ? Tell me , ha's desire To thee - ward dy'd i'th'embers , and no fire Left in this rak't - up Ash - heap , as a mark To testifie the glowing of a spark ? Have I divorc't thee onely to ...
... thee , too remisse , Too temp'rate in embracing ? Tell me , ha's desire To thee - ward dy'd i'th'embers , and no fire Left in this rak't - up Ash - heap , as a mark To testifie the glowing of a spark ? Have I divorc't thee onely to ...
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... thee Herrick to Anacreon , 30 Quaffing his full - crown'd bowles of burning Wine , And in his Raptures speaking Lines of Thine , Like to His subjects ; and as his Frantick- Looks , shew him truly Bacchanalian like , Besmear'd with ...
... thee Herrick to Anacreon , 30 Quaffing his full - crown'd bowles of burning Wine , And in his Raptures speaking Lines of Thine , Like to His subjects ; and as his Frantick- Looks , shew him truly Bacchanalian like , Besmear'd with ...
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... Thee . Fair , flowry Name ; In none but Thee And Thy Nectareall Fragrancy , Hourly there meetes An universall SYNOD " of All sweets ; By whom it is defined Thus That no Perfume For ever shall presume To passe for Odoriferous , 170 180 ...
... Thee . Fair , flowry Name ; In none but Thee And Thy Nectareall Fragrancy , Hourly there meetes An universall SYNOD " of All sweets ; By whom it is defined Thus That no Perfume For ever shall presume To passe for Odoriferous , 170 180 ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND | 13 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Copyright | |
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