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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... sound so dreary . Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rooked ' in the spire , screams loud ; the gloomy aisles , Black - plastered , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And tattered coats of arms , send back ...
... sound so dreary . Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rooked ' in the spire , screams loud ; the gloomy aisles , Black - plastered , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And tattered coats of arms , send back ...
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... sound an echo to the sense . " He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification , and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused , so that no man has found the sound ...
... sound an echo to the sense . " He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification , and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused , so that no man has found the sound ...
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... sound of the drum . II Lal de dauble , & c . My ' prenticeship I pass'd , where my leader breath'd his last , When the bloody die was cast on the heights of Abram ; And I served out my trade when the gallant game was play'd , And the ...
... sound of the drum . II Lal de dauble , & c . My ' prenticeship I pass'd , where my leader breath'd his last , When the bloody die was cast on the heights of Abram ; And I served out my trade when the gallant game was play'd , And the ...
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