Eighteenth Century Poetry & ProseLouis Ignatius Bredvold Ronald Press Company, 1956 - 1274 pagini The purpose os this volume is to provide representative selections from English prose and poetry of the eighteenth century for undergraduate courses in that period. In this second edition of the anthology the editors have expanded the contents considerably. Additions have been made from Addison, Pope, Swift, Young, Smart, Burke, and Reynolds, with Blake's comments. The extensive notes and introductions should assist the beginning student to understand the texts, but it is hoped that they will also lead him to explore further in the works listed in the bibliographies. |
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... ancient Western Goths , our ancestors , the runic poetry seems to have been as old as their letters ; and their laws , their precepts of wisdom as well as their records , their religious rites as well as their charms and incantations ...
... ancient Western Goths , our ancestors , the runic poetry seems to have been as old as their letters ; and their laws , their precepts of wisdom as well as their records , their religious rites as well as their charms and incantations ...
Pagina 136
... ancient in the eastern regions , and much in vogue , as we may observe in the many parables used in the Old Testament as well as in the New . And there is a book of fables , of the sort of Æsop's , translated out of Persian , and ...
... ancient in the eastern regions , and much in vogue , as we may observe in the many parables used in the Old Testament as well as in the New . And there is a book of fables , of the sort of Æsop's , translated out of Persian , and ...
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... ancient seats . 80 Then the ancientest Peer , Duke of Burgundy , rose from the Monarch's right hand , red as wines From his mountains ; an odour of war , like a ripe vineyard , rose from his garments , And the chamber became as a ...
... ancient seats . 80 Then the ancientest Peer , Duke of Burgundy , rose from the Monarch's right hand , red as wines From his mountains ; an odour of war , like a ripe vineyard , rose from his garments , And the chamber became as a ...
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