Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . aqon, how-ever daintily cut, and there was much to put into it. Thelimitation of room must be our apology for many omissionsof which we are only too conscious. We have, on allaccounts, to regret the immutability of the great scientificfact, that a pint measure will only hold a pint. Withmore flower-beds, we could to our advantage have hadmore flowers. We have commenced our Collection with three Poems ofGeorge Wither. The date of the death of that amiable poet
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . aqon, how-ever daintily cut, and there was much to put into it. Thelimitation of room must be our apology for many omissionsof which we are only too conscious. We have, on allaccounts, to regret the immutability of the great scientificfact, that a pint measure will only hold a pint. Withmore flower-beds, we could to our advantage have hadmore flowers. We have commenced our Collection with three Poems ofGeorge Wither. The date of the death of that amiable poettakes us back to within a very few years of the Restoration. Wehave no exquisite reason, as Sir Andrew Aguecheek choicelyexpresses it, for this limitation ; but still we think we havereason enough. Nor was a frontier line drawn across theyear iti6o at a mere venture ; for our Vers de Societe weremainly derived from the French, and introduced into Englandby those exiles who returned with Charles from Breda. Withso much less genius than the Elizabethan writers, the gentle-men poets, circa 1660—1670, wrote symmetrical lines, and iv. .^
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