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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... rise , And swell the pomp of dreadful sacrifice , Amid that scene if some relenting eye Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie , Devotion's self shall steal a thought from Heaven , 360 One human tear shall drop and be forgiven ...
... rise , And swell the pomp of dreadful sacrifice , Amid that scene if some relenting eye Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie , Devotion's self shall steal a thought from Heaven , 360 One human tear shall drop and be forgiven ...
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... rise and half to fall ; Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth , in endless error hurled ... rise , and there descend , Explain his own beginning , or his end ? Alas what wonder ! man's superior part Unchecked ...
... rise and half to fall ; Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth , in endless error hurled ... rise , and there descend , Explain his own beginning , or his end ? Alas what wonder ! man's superior part Unchecked ...
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... rise , When , with affected air , a coxcomb cries , " The work , I own , has elegance and ease , But sure no Modern should presume to please . " - Francis . 92b , 34. Si meliora dies . Horace , Epistles , ii , 1 , 34 . But let me ask ...
... rise , When , with affected air , a coxcomb cries , " The work , I own , has elegance and ease , But sure no Modern should presume to please . " - Francis . 92b , 34. Si meliora dies . Horace , Epistles , ii , 1 , 34 . But let me ask ...
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