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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... once the track , but presses on , Till , forced at last to the tremendous verge , At once she sinks to everlasting ruin ! Sure ' tis a serious thing to die ! My soul , What a strange moment must it be when , near Thy journey's end ...
... once the track , but presses on , Till , forced at last to the tremendous verge , At once she sinks to everlasting ruin ! Sure ' tis a serious thing to die ! My soul , What a strange moment must it be when , near Thy journey's end ...
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... once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure in what contributes to increase the distemper . Like the tiger , that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh , the reader who has once ...
... once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure in what contributes to increase the distemper . Like the tiger , that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh , the reader who has once ...
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... once combined , And burghers men immaculate perhaps , Become a loathsome body , only fit For dissolution , hurtful to the main . Hence merchants , unimpeachable of sin Against the charities of domestic life , Incorporated , seem at once ...
... once combined , And burghers men immaculate perhaps , Become a loathsome body , only fit For dissolution , hurtful to the main . Hence merchants , unimpeachable of sin Against the charities of domestic life , Incorporated , seem at once ...
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