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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... unto one , it became common unto many , and was by tran- scription successively corrupted untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the presse . He that shall peruse that worke , 10- and shall take notice of sundry particulari- ties ...
... unto one , it became common unto many , and was by tran- scription successively corrupted untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the presse . He that shall peruse that worke , 10- and shall take notice of sundry particulari- ties ...
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... unto her , is to devolve the honor of the principall agent , upon the instrument ; which if with reason we may doe , then let our hammers rise up and boast they have built our houses , and our pens receive the honour of our writings ...
... unto her , is to devolve the honor of the principall agent , upon the instrument ; which if with reason we may doe , then let our hammers rise up and boast they have built our houses , and our pens receive the honour of our writings ...
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... unto our memories , when ambition may fear the Prophecy of Elias , 203 and Charles the fifth can never hope to live within two Methusela's of Hector . " 204 206 210 To be read by bare Inscriptions like many in Gruter , to hope for ...
... unto our memories , when ambition may fear the Prophecy of Elias , 203 and Charles the fifth can never hope to live within two Methusela's of Hector . " 204 206 210 To be read by bare Inscriptions like many in Gruter , to hope for ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE | 13 |
PROSE STYLE | 19 |
Copyright | |
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