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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... rules , the honor they have received in the world , or the pleasure they have given mankind . But to comfort them , I do not know there was any great poet in Greece after the rules of that art laid down by Aristotle , nor in Rome after ...
... rules , the honor they have received in the world , or the pleasure they have given mankind . But to comfort them , I do not know there was any great poet in Greece after the rules of that art laid down by Aristotle , nor in Rome after ...
Pagina 346
... rules of old discovered , not devised , Are nature still , but nature methodised ; Nature , like liberty , is but restrained By the same laws which first herself ordained . Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites , When to ...
... rules of old discovered , not devised , Are nature still , but nature methodised ; Nature , like liberty , is but restrained By the same laws which first herself ordained . Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites , When to ...
Pagina 347
... rules not far enough extend , ( Since rules were made but to promote their end ) 150 Some lucky licence answer to the full The intent proposed , that licence is a rule . Thus Pegasus , a nearer way to take , May boldly deviate from the ...
... rules not far enough extend , ( Since rules were made but to promote their end ) 150 Some lucky licence answer to the full The intent proposed , that licence is a rule . Thus Pegasus , a nearer way to take , May boldly deviate from the ...
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