Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to ButlerSir Herbert John Clifford Grierson |
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... art lies in his use of the same sound now in arsis , now in thesis ; but his examples show that this is one of many devices by which Donne secures two effects , the troubling of the regular fall ... thou though thou know'st that thou art so.
... art lies in his use of the same sound now in arsis , now in thesis ; but his examples show that this is one of many devices by which Donne secures two effects , the troubling of the regular fall ... thou though thou know'st that thou art so.
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... thou brok'st not , but continued'st it , Thou art so truth , that thoughts of thee suffice , To make dreames truths ; and fables histories ; Enter these armes , for since thou thoughtst it best , Not to dreame all my dreame , let's act ...
... thou brok'st not , but continued'st it , Thou art so truth , that thoughts of thee suffice , To make dreames truths ; and fables histories ; Enter these armes , for since thou thoughtst it best , Not to dreame all my dreame , let's act ...
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... thou art not so , For , those , whom thou think'st , thou dost overthrow , Die not , poore death , nor yet canst thou kill me . From rest and sleepe , which but thy pictures bee , Much pleasure , then from thee , much more must flow ...
... thou art not so , For , those , whom thou think'st , thou dost overthrow , Die not , poore death , nor yet canst thou kill me . From rest and sleepe , which but thy pictures bee , Much pleasure , then from thee , much more must flow ...
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