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. |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 3 din 81
Pagina 544
... truth and good In this dark world : for Truth and Good are one , And Beauty dwells in them , and they in her , With like participation . Wherefore then , O sons of earth ! would ye dissolve the tie ? O wherefore , with a rash impetuous ...
... truth and good In this dark world : for Truth and Good are one , And Beauty dwells in them , and they in her , With like participation . Wherefore then , O sons of earth ! would ye dissolve the tie ? O wherefore , with a rash impetuous ...
Pagina 663
... truth has a right to suf- fer . I am afraid there is no other way of ascertaining the truth but by perse- cution on the one hand and enduring it on the other . " GOLDSMITH . " But how is a man to act , Sir ? Though firmly convinced of the ...
... truth has a right to suf- fer . I am afraid there is no other way of ascertaining the truth but by perse- cution on the one hand and enduring it on the other . " GOLDSMITH . " But how is a man to act , Sir ? Though firmly convinced of the ...
Pagina 1177
... truth upon sufferance , or truth by courtesy , it is not fixed , but variable . However , whilst these opin- ions and prejudices , on which it is founded , continue , they operate as truth ; and the art , whose office it is to please ...
... truth upon sufferance , or truth by courtesy , it is not fixed , but variable . However , whilst these opin- ions and prejudices , on which it is founded , continue , they operate as truth ; and the art , whose office it is to please ...
Cuprins
SAMUEL BUTLER | 1 |
SAMUEL PEPYS | 15 |
JOHN WILMOT EARL OF ROCHESTER | 31 |
Drept de autor | |
56 alte secțiuni nu sunt arătate
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Termeni și expresii frecvente
admiration Æneid ancient appear Bargrave beauty Ben Jonson blank verse blessed charms Christopher Smart court creature death delight divine English eral eyes fair fame fancy fate fear genius give grace hand happy hear heart Heaven honour hope Houyhnhnms Hudibras human Imlac Jebusites Johnson kind King labour lady laws learning live look Lord Lubberkin lyre mankind ment mind moral Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er observed pain pass passion Pekuah persons Pindaric play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry praise pride prince Rasselas reason rest rhyme round scene sense shade Silent Woman smiles song soul spleen sweet talk taste tell thee things Thomas Warton thou thought tion truth turn Veal verse virtue Whig William Shenstone words write Yahoos youth