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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... learning ; and ' twere to be wished our gentry were so much lovers of learning that birth might always be joined with capacity . The work of this society should be to encourage polite learning , to polish and refine the English tongue ...
... learning ; and ' twere to be wished our gentry were so much lovers of learning that birth might always be joined with capacity . The work of this society should be to encourage polite learning , to polish and refine the English tongue ...
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... learning proceeded from no better ground . This too might be thought a praise by some , and to this his errors have as injudiciously been ascribed by others . For ' tis certain , were it true , it could concern but a small part of them ...
... learning proceeded from no better ground . This too might be thought a praise by some , and to this his errors have as injudiciously been ascribed by others . For ' tis certain , were it true , it could concern but a small part of them ...
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... learning in existence , even in the midst of arms and confusions , and whilst govern- ments were rather in their causes than formed . Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priest- hood , and paid it with usury , by en ...
... learning in existence , even in the midst of arms and confusions , and whilst govern- ments were rather in their causes than formed . Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priest- hood , and paid it with usury , by en ...
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