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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... Things to desire , and many Things to 10 feare : And yet that commonly is the Case of Kings ; Who being at the highest , want Matter of desire , which makes their Mindes more Languishing ; And have many Representations of Perills and ...
... Things to desire , and many Things to 10 feare : And yet that commonly is the Case of Kings ; Who being at the highest , want Matter of desire , which makes their Mindes more Languishing ; And have many Representations of Perills and ...
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... things which be- long to the charge of the Magsitrates , You may terme this Affectation , a shallow , petty , bastard Ambition , alto- gether illiberall and degenerous . But the foolish ambitious fellow is he , who being invited to ...
... things which be- long to the charge of the Magsitrates , You may terme this Affectation , a shallow , petty , bastard Ambition , alto- gether illiberall and degenerous . But the foolish ambitious fellow is he , who being invited to ...
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... things to obtrude , And force some odd Similitude . What is it then , which like the Power Divine We only can by Negatives define ? In a true piece of Wit all things must be , Yet all things there agree . As in the Ark , joyn'd without ...
... things to obtrude , And force some odd Similitude . What is it then , which like the Power Divine We only can by Negatives define ? In a true piece of Wit all things must be , Yet all things there agree . As in the Ark , joyn'd without ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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