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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... less pleasing , though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale , Nor let the imprisoned essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows e'er they drop in showers A brighter ...
... less pleasing , though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale , Nor let the imprisoned essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows e'er they drop in showers A brighter ...
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... less ignorant of his own powers than an oyster of its pearl or a rock of its diamond ; that he may possess dormant , unsuspected abilities , till awakened by loud calls or stung up by striking emergencies , is evident from the sudden ...
... less ignorant of his own powers than an oyster of its pearl or a rock of its diamond ; that he may possess dormant , unsuspected abilities , till awakened by loud calls or stung up by striking emergencies , is evident from the sudden ...
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... less method , 14 be- cause less will serve to explain and apply them . 10 20 We will take it for granted that reason is something invariable and 30 fixed in the nature of things ; 15 and without endeavouring to go back to an account of ...
... less method , 14 be- cause less will serve to explain and apply them . 10 20 We will take it for granted that reason is something invariable and 30 fixed in the nature of things ; 15 and without endeavouring to go back to an account of ...
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