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Excerpt from Essays in Divinity
John Donne, the writer of the Essays contained in this volume, lived in an age more fruitful in great men and stirring events than the world has perhaps ever seen, from the times of Pericles to the days of Queen Victoria.
He was born in 1573 - the year after the massacre of St. Bartholomew; he died in 1631, the year after the battle of Lutzen. where Gustavus Adolphus fell.
In his childhood Camoens fetched his last sigh in Portugal, - the poet who had laid the only firm foundation for his country's literature, condemned to die in penury, hardly finding for his very corpse its last garment - a shroud. In his boyhood. Sir Philip Sidney wrote the Arcadia, and he was still in his teens when that gallant hero put away the cup of water from his own parched lips to slake the thirst of the bleeding trooper lying by his side.
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