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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... virtue be not mere self - interest , the love and desire of life for virtue's sake cannot be es- teemed so . But if the desire of life be only through the violence of that nat- ural aversion to death , if it be through the love of ...
... virtue be not mere self - interest , the love and desire of life for virtue's sake cannot be es- teemed so . But if the desire of life be only through the violence of that nat- ural aversion to death , if it be through the love of ...
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... virtue , and magnifying the contrary happiness of a vicious state , to declare " that except only for the sake of future reward and fear of future punishment ... Virtue's being naturally an enemy to happiness in INQUIRY CONCERNING VIRTUE 319.
... virtue , and magnifying the contrary happiness of a vicious state , to declare " that except only for the sake of future reward and fear of future punishment ... Virtue's being naturally an enemy to happiness in INQUIRY CONCERNING VIRTUE 319.
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... virtue , whether blessed or cursed , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count all the advantage prosperous vice at- tains , ' Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains ; 90 And grant the bad what happiness they would ...
... virtue , whether blessed or cursed , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count all the advantage prosperous vice at- tains , ' Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains ; 90 And grant the bad what happiness they would ...
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