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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... praise , lamented shade ! re- ceive , This praise at least a grateful muse may give : The muse , whose early voice you taught to sing , Prescribed her heights , and pruned her ten- der wing , ( Her guide now lost ) no more attempts to ...
... praise , lamented shade ! re- ceive , This praise at least a grateful muse may give : The muse , whose early voice you taught to sing , Prescribed her heights , and pruned her ten- der wing , ( Her guide now lost ) no more attempts to ...
Pagina 476
... praise , ye brooks , attune , ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along . Ye headlong torrents , rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods , that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou , majestic main , A secret world ...
... praise , ye brooks , attune , ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along . Ye headlong torrents , rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods , that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou , majestic main , A secret world ...
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... praise my wondrous power , And dance , forgetful of the noontide hour . Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire , skilled in gestic2 lore , Has frisked beneath the ...
... praise my wondrous power , And dance , forgetful of the noontide hour . Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire , skilled in gestic2 lore , Has frisked beneath the ...
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