English Poetry of the Seventeenth CenturyRoberta Florence Brinkley |
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... stand inquiring right is not to stray ; To sleep , or run wrong , is . On a huge hill , Cragged and steep , Truth stands , and he that will Reach her , about must and about must go , And what the hill's suddenness resists , win so . Yet ...
... stand inquiring right is not to stray ; To sleep , or run wrong , is . On a huge hill , Cragged and steep , Truth stands , and he that will Reach her , about must and about must go , And what the hill's suddenness resists , win so . Yet ...
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... stand for ever by his own Firm and well - fixed foundation . To his book's end this last line he'd have placed : Jocund his Muse was , but his life was chaste . ΤΟ LITTLE is known of the life of Francis Quarles , 224 ROBERT HERRICK The ...
... stand for ever by his own Firm and well - fixed foundation . To his book's end this last line he'd have placed : Jocund his Muse was , but his life was chaste . ΤΟ LITTLE is known of the life of Francis Quarles , 224 ROBERT HERRICK The ...
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... stands ; if I can be to thee A poet , thou Parnassus art to me . Nor wonder , if ( advantaged in my flight , By taking ... stand though sword , or time , or fire , Or zeal more fierce than they , thy fall conspire , Secure , whilst thee ...
... stands ; if I can be to thee A poet , thou Parnassus art to me . Nor wonder , if ( advantaged in my flight , By taking ... stand though sword , or time , or fire , Or zeal more fierce than they , thy fall conspire , Secure , whilst thee ...
Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND | 1 |
JOHN DONNE | 21 |
The Legacy | 30 |
Copyright | |
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