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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... sure , As can all doubts resolve , all truth secure , Then her infallibility as well Where copies are corrupt or lame can tell ; Restore lost canon with as little pains , As truly explicate what still remains : Which yet no council dare ...
... sure , As can all doubts resolve , all truth secure , Then her infallibility as well Where copies are corrupt or lame can tell ; Restore lost canon with as little pains , As truly explicate what still remains : Which yet no council dare ...
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... Sure never to o'ershoot . but just to hit ; While still too wide or short is human wit ; 90 Sure by quick nature happiness to gain , Which heavier reason labours at in vain , This too serves always , reason never long ; One must go ...
... Sure never to o'ershoot . but just to hit ; While still too wide or short is human wit ; 90 Sure by quick nature happiness to gain , Which heavier reason labours at in vain , This too serves always , reason never long ; One must go ...
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... sure some bard , to our eternal praise , In twice ten thousand rhyming nights and days , Had reached the work , the all that mortal can ; And South beheld that master - piece of Man . " 23 " Oh ( cried the Goddess ) for some pedant ...
... sure some bard , to our eternal praise , In twice ten thousand rhyming nights and days , Had reached the work , the all that mortal can ; And South beheld that master - piece of Man . " 23 " Oh ( cried the Goddess ) for some pedant ...
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