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Page 155
... wherein we are taught and instructed ; our third age to Venus , the days of love , desire , and vanity ; the fourth to the Sun , the strong , flourishing , and beautiful age of man's life ; the fifth to Mars , in which we seek honour ...
... wherein we are taught and instructed ; our third age to Venus , the days of love , desire , and vanity ; the fourth to the Sun , the strong , flourishing , and beautiful age of man's life ; the fifth to Mars , in which we seek honour ...
Page 157
... wherein Nature being but yet green and growing , we rent from her and replant her branches , while herself hath not yet any root sufficient to maintain her own top ; and such half - ripe seeds ( for the most part ) in their growing up ...
... wherein Nature being but yet green and growing , we rent from her and replant her branches , while herself hath not yet any root sufficient to maintain her own top ; and such half - ripe seeds ( for the most part ) in their growing up ...
Page 172
... wherein he should not have done injury to the sacred writings , as long as he had forborne to derogate from the first causes , by ascribing to the second more than was due . Such , or little different , is the business that I have now ...
... wherein he should not have done injury to the sacred writings , as long as he had forborne to derogate from the first causes , by ascribing to the second more than was due . Such , or little different , is the business that I have now ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Metrical translations from the History of | 21 |
A farewell to false Love | 27 |
Copyright | |
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