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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... Death , and Immortality ( 1742-46 ) . Moved by the successive deaths of Lucia , Philander , and Narcissa ( shadowy individuals who do not correspond exactly to the members of Young's own family circle ) , the poet undertakes a long ...
... Death , and Immortality ( 1742-46 ) . Moved by the successive deaths of Lucia , Philander , and Narcissa ( shadowy individuals who do not correspond exactly to the members of Young's own family circle ) , the poet undertakes a long ...
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... Death , To him that is at ease in his possessions ; Who , counting on long years of pleasure here , Is quite ... death was nothing , and naught after death , If when men died , at once they ceased to be , Returning to the barren womb of ...
... Death , To him that is at ease in his possessions ; Who , counting on long years of pleasure here , Is quite ... death was nothing , and naught after death , If when men died , at once they ceased to be , Returning to the barren womb of ...
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... death kind Nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain , These goods he grants , who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind , And makes the happiness she does not find ...
... death kind Nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain , These goods he grants , who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind , And makes the happiness she does not find ...
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