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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... thought , and kept the scholastic ingenuity still further ramified by the baroque impulse to give concrete , sense substance to the idea , and topical example to precept and con- clusion . The extraordinary combination of hair - breadth ...
... thought , and kept the scholastic ingenuity still further ramified by the baroque impulse to give concrete , sense substance to the idea , and topical example to precept and con- clusion . The extraordinary combination of hair - breadth ...
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... thought to know ; you shall be thought another time , to know that , you know not . Speach of a Mans Selfe ought to be seldome , and well chosen . I knew One , was wont to say , in Scorne ; He must needs be a Wise Man , he speakes so ...
... thought to know ; you shall be thought another time , to know that , you know not . Speach of a Mans Selfe ought to be seldome , and well chosen . I knew One , was wont to say , in Scorne ; He must needs be a Wise Man , he speakes so ...
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... thought from the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury onwards into the following century . During the Restoration period there were , it is true , a number of disillusioned and cynical spirits who found , or thought they found ...
... thought from the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury onwards into the following century . During the Restoration period there were , it is true , a number of disillusioned and cynical spirits who found , or thought they found ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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