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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... Light , Still they are sure to be i ' th ' right . ' Tis a dark lantern of the Spirit , Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that falls down from on high , For spiritual trades to couzen by ; An ignis fatuus , that ...
... Light , Still they are sure to be i ' th ' right . ' Tis a dark lantern of the Spirit , Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that falls down from on high , For spiritual trades to couzen by ; An ignis fatuus , that ...
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... light , old Dullness heaved the head , Then snatched a sheet of Thule from her bed , Sudden she flies , and whelms it o'er the pyre ; Down sink the flames , and with a hiss expire . Her ample presence fills up all the place ; 261 A veil ...
... light , old Dullness heaved the head , Then snatched a sheet of Thule from her bed , Sudden she flies , and whelms it o'er the pyre ; Down sink the flames , and with a hiss expire . Her ample presence fills up all the place ; 261 A veil ...
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... light forms and shadowy things , And , in the vague excursion caught , Brings home some rare exotic thought . The melancholy man such dreams , As brightest evidence , esteems ; Fain would he see some distant scene Suggested by his ...
... light forms and shadowy things , And , in the vague excursion caught , Brings home some rare exotic thought . The melancholy man such dreams , As brightest evidence , esteems ; Fain would he see some distant scene Suggested by his ...
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