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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... talking largely of his own businesses , we began to talk how matters are at Court : and 20 though he did not flatly tell me any such thing , yet I do suspect that all is not kind between the King and the Duke , and that the King's ...
... talking largely of his own businesses , we began to talk how matters are at Court : and 20 though he did not flatly tell me any such thing , yet I do suspect that all is not kind between the King and the Duke , and that the King's ...
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... talk was now of tithes and dues ; He smoked his pipe , and read the news ; Knew how to preach old sermons next , Vamped in the preface and the text ; At christenings well could act his part , And had the service all by heart ; Wished ...
... talk was now of tithes and dues ; He smoked his pipe , and read the news ; Knew how to preach old sermons next , Vamped in the preface and the text ; At christenings well could act his part , And had the service all by heart ; Wished ...
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... talk . You may laugh in as many ways as you talk ; and surely every way of talking that is practised cannot be esteemed . " who disgusted me by his forwardness , and by showing no deference to noble- men into whose company he was ad ...
... talk . You may laugh in as many ways as you talk ; and surely every way of talking that is practised cannot be esteemed . " who disgusted me by his forwardness , and by showing no deference to noble- men into whose company he was ad ...
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