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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Pagina 57
... force confess'd , And , to be shorn , lay slumb'ring on her breast . But , when this fatal counsel , found too late , Expos'd its author to the public hate ; When his just sovereign , by no impious way . Could be seduc'd to arbitrary ...
... force confess'd , And , to be shorn , lay slumb'ring on her breast . But , when this fatal counsel , found too late , Expos'd its author to the public hate ; When his just sovereign , by no impious way . Could be seduc'd to arbitrary ...
Pagina 129
... force of imagination , to the secret virtues of several herbs , and to the powers of sounds . And I am sorry the natural history or account of fascination has not employed the pen of some person of such excellent wit and deep thought ...
... force of imagination , to the secret virtues of several herbs , and to the powers of sounds . And I am sorry the natural history or account of fascination has not employed the pen of some person of such excellent wit and deep thought ...
Pagina 130
... force of their music upon fishes and beasts : ' tis enough that we find the charming of serpents and the cure or allay of an evil spirit or possession at- tributed to it in Sacred Writ . For the force of eloquence that so often raised ...
... force of their music upon fishes and beasts : ' tis enough that we find the charming of serpents and the cure or allay of an evil spirit or possession at- tributed to it in Sacred Writ . For the force of eloquence that so often raised ...
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