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 69
... true , that in compendious Treatises for practise , that fourme is not to bee disallowed . But in the true handling of knowledge , men ought not to fall either on the one side into the veyne of Velleius the Epicurean : Nil tam metuens ...
... true , that in compendious Treatises for practise , that fourme is not to bee disallowed . But in the true handling of knowledge , men ought not to fall either on the one side into the veyne of Velleius the Epicurean : Nil tam metuens ...
Page 81
... true deaths , true maryages untie , So lovers contracts , images of those , Binde but till sleep , deaths image , them unloose ? Or , your owne end to Justifie , For having purpos'd change , and falsehood ; you Can have no way but ...
... true deaths , true maryages untie , So lovers contracts , images of those , Binde but till sleep , deaths image , them unloose ? Or , your owne end to Justifie , For having purpos'd change , and falsehood ; you Can have no way but ...
Page 82
... true . Will no other vice content you ? Wil it not serve your turn to do , as did your mothers ? Or have you all old vices spent , and now would finde out others ? Or doth a feare , that men are true , torment you ? Oh we are not , be ...
... true . Will no other vice content you ? Wil it not serve your turn to do , as did your mothers ? Or have you all old vices spent , and now would finde out others ? Or doth a feare , that men are true , torment you ? Oh we are not , be ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
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