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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... better sort so oft turn knaves , forsaking their principles and quitting their honour and freedom for a mean , timorous , shifting state of gaudy servitude . " A little better taste ( were it a very little ) in the affair of life itself ...
... better sort so oft turn knaves , forsaking their principles and quitting their honour and freedom for a mean , timorous , shifting state of gaudy servitude . " A little better taste ( were it a very little ) in the affair of life itself ...
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... better than I am , for doing something not so necessary , for mankind could do better without your books , than without my shoes . ' Thus , Sir , there would be a perpetual struggle for precedence , were there no fixed invariable rules ...
... better than I am , for doing something not so necessary , for mankind could do better without your books , than without my shoes . ' Thus , Sir , there would be a perpetual struggle for precedence , were there no fixed invariable rules ...
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... better picked ; A rival comes , and Tom - is nicked ! See how behave his friends professed ; They turn the matter to ... better man than you ? Envy , I doubt , would powerful prove , And get the better of your love ; ' Twould please your ...
... better picked ; A rival comes , and Tom - is nicked ! See how behave his friends professed ; They turn the matter to ... better man than you ? Envy , I doubt , would powerful prove , And get the better of your love ; ' Twould please your ...
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