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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... words of some poets who write in it are either ill chosen , or ill placed , which makes not only rhyme , but all kind of verse in any language unnatural , shall I , for their vicious affectation , condemn those excellent lines of ...
... words of some poets who write in it are either ill chosen , or ill placed , which makes not only rhyme , but all kind of verse in any language unnatural , shall I , for their vicious affectation , condemn those excellent lines of ...
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... words , would always have its original here , and not be allowed without it . There should be no more occasion to search for derivations and construc- tions , and it would be as criminal then to coin words as money . The exercises of ...
... words , would always have its original here , and not be allowed without it . There should be no more occasion to search for derivations and construc- tions , and it would be as criminal then to coin words as money . The exercises of ...
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... words expressed , Is like a clown in regal purple dressed : For different styles with different subjects sort , 321 As several garbs with country , town , and court . Some by old words to fame have made pre- tence , Ancients in phrase ...
... words expressed , Is like a clown in regal purple dressed : For different styles with different subjects sort , 321 As several garbs with country , town , and court . Some by old words to fame have made pre- tence , Ancients in phrase ...
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SAMUEL BUTLER | 1 |
A Bumpkin or CountrySquire | 11 |
JOHN WILMOT EARL OF ROCHESTER | 31 |
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