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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Pagina 122
... write at all , or to at- tempt some other way . There is no bays to be expected in their walks : tentanda via est , qua me quoque pos- sum tollere humo . " This way of writing in verse they have only left free to us ; our age is arrived ...
... write at all , or to at- tempt some other way . There is no bays to be expected in their walks : tentanda via est , qua me quoque pos- sum tollere humo . " This way of writing in verse they have only left free to us ; our age is arrived ...
Pagina 125
... write scurvily out of rhyme , and worse in it . But the first of these judgments is nowhere to be found , and the latter is not fit to write at all . To speak therefore of judgment as it is in the best poets ; they who have the greatest ...
... write scurvily out of rhyme , and worse in it . But the first of these judgments is nowhere to be found , and the latter is not fit to write at all . To speak therefore of judgment as it is in the best poets ; they who have the greatest ...
Pagina 345
... write , Or with a rival's , or an eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride , And fain would be upon the laughing side . If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite , There are who judge still worse than he can write . Some ...
... write , Or with a rival's , or an eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride , And fain would be upon the laughing side . If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite , There are who judge still worse than he can write . Some ...
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