Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Volume 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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It was an high speech of Seneca , ( after Certainly , Vertue is like pretious Odours , the manner of the Stoickes ) That the good most fragrant , when they are incensed , ** things , which belong to Prosperity , are to or crushed : For ...
It was an high speech of Seneca , ( after Certainly , Vertue is like pretious Odours , the manner of the Stoickes ) That the good most fragrant , when they are incensed , ** things , which belong to Prosperity , are to or crushed : For ...
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The second , that it pusever envieth Vertue in others . For Mens leth " and perplexeth the Conceits of Mindes , will either feed upon their owne many ; that perhaps would otherwise co- Good , or upon others Evill ; And who wanteth the ...
The second , that it pusever envieth Vertue in others . For Mens leth " and perplexeth the Conceits of Mindes , will either feed upon their owne many ; that perhaps would otherwise co- Good , or upon others Evill ; And who wanteth the ...
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As not the World can praise too much , Yet is't your vertue now I raise . And on them burne so chaste a flame , With so much Loyalties expence A vertue , like Allay , so gone As Love t'aquit such excellence Throughout your forme ...
As not the World can praise too much , Yet is't your vertue now I raise . And on them burne so chaste a flame , With so much Loyalties expence A vertue , like Allay , so gone As Love t'aquit such excellence Throughout your forme ...
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Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Francis Bacon | 43 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1 Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Helen Constance White |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Editor | Helen Constance White |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1951 |
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