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Page 119
20 Thus fell this Prince of Darkness , once a bright And glorious star ; he wilful turned away His borrowed globe from that eternal light ; Himself he sought , so lost himself : his ray Vanished to smoke , his morning sunk in night ...
20 Thus fell this Prince of Darkness , once a bright And glorious star ; he wilful turned away His borrowed globe from that eternal light ; Himself he sought , so lost himself : his ray Vanished to smoke , his morning sunk in night ...
Page 314
It was there that he completed Paradise Lost . The supreme epic of English literature had been written , but it was not the epic on early British history which he had been planning when he wrote Mansus or Epitaphium Damonis.10 The theme ...
It was there that he completed Paradise Lost . The supreme epic of English literature had been written , but it was not the epic on early British history which he had been planning when he wrote Mansus or Epitaphium Damonis.10 The theme ...
Page 451
Where , with like haste , through several ways they run , Some to undo and some to be undone ; While luxury and wealth , like war and peace , Are each the other's ruin and increase , As rivers lost in seas , some secret vein Thence ...
Where , with like haste , through several ways they run , Some to undo and some to be undone ; While luxury and wealth , like war and peace , Are each the other's ruin and increase , As rivers lost in seas , some secret vein Thence ...
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Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND | 1 |
JOHN DONNE | 21 |
BEN JONSON | 76 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century |
| Editor | Roberta Florence Brinkley |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Norton, 1942 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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