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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... charms of po- etry , if the forsaken lover in that eclogue of Virgil had expected only from the force of her verses or her charms , what is the burden of the song , to bring Daphnis home from the town where he was gone and engaged in a ...
... charms of po- etry , if the forsaken lover in that eclogue of Virgil had expected only from the force of her verses or her charms , what is the burden of the song , to bring Daphnis home from the town where he was gone and engaged in a ...
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... charms , sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled . Sweet smiling village ...
... charms , sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled . Sweet smiling village ...
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... charms are past , for charms are frail , When time advances and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest ...
... charms are past , for charms are frail , When time advances and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest ...
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SAMUEL BUTLER | 1 |
A Bumpkin or CountrySquire | 11 |
JOHN WILMOT EARL OF ROCHESTER | 31 |
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admiration ancient appear Bargrave beauty Ben Jonson blank verse blessed charms Christopher Smart court creature death delight divine English eral eyes fair fame fancy fate fear genius give grace hand happy hear heart Heaven honour hope Houyhnhnms Hudibras human Imlac Jebusites Johnson kind King labour lady laws learning live look Lord Lubberkin lyre mankind ment mind moral Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er observed pain pass passion Pekuah persons Pindaric play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry praise pride prince Rasselas reason rest rhyme round scene sense shade Silent Woman smiles song soul spleen sweet talk taste tell thee things Thomas Warton thou thought tion truth turn Veal verse Virgil virtue Whig William Shenstone words write Yahoos youth