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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... never equal them , but they could never equal themselves , were they to rise and write again . We ac- knowledge them our fathers in wit ; but they have ruined their estates them- selves , before they came to their chil- dren's hands ...
... never equal them , but they could never equal themselves , were they to rise and write again . We ac- knowledge them our fathers in wit ; but they have ruined their estates them- selves , before they came to their chil- dren's hands ...
Pagina 182
... never did exist . Where's now this favourite of Apollo ? Departed : -and his works must follow , Must undergo the common fate ; His kind of wit is out of date . Some country squire to Lintot goes , Inquires for Swift in verse and prose ...
... never did exist . Where's now this favourite of Apollo ? Departed : -and his works must follow , Must undergo the common fate ; His kind of wit is out of date . Some country squire to Lintot goes , Inquires for Swift in verse and prose ...
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... never strikes but once a foe ? Or shall I , with the words of peace , preserve the warrior's life ? Stately are his steps of age ! lovely the remnant of his years ! Perhaps it is the husband of Moina ; the father of car - borne Carthon ...
... never strikes but once a foe ? Or shall I , with the words of peace , preserve the warrior's life ? Stately are his steps of age ! lovely the remnant of his years ! Perhaps it is the husband of Moina ; the father of car - borne Carthon ...
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