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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... Beauty alone could beauty take so right : Her dress , her shape , her matchless grace , Were all observ'd , as well as heav'nly face . With such a peerless majesty she stands , As in that day she took the crown from sa- cred hands ...
... Beauty alone could beauty take so right : Her dress , her shape , her matchless grace , Were all observ'd , as well as heav'nly face . With such a peerless majesty she stands , As in that day she took the crown from sa- cred hands ...
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... beauty be essential , the study and love of symmetry and order , on which beauty depends , must also be essential in the same respect . ' Tis impossible we can advance the least in any relish or taste of outward symmetry and order ...
... beauty be essential , the study and love of symmetry and order , on which beauty depends , must also be essential in the same respect . ' Tis impossible we can advance the least in any relish or taste of outward symmetry and order ...
Pagina 327
... beauty or deformity in this moral kind ? Or allowing that there really is , must it not , of conse- quence , in the same manner imply health or sickliness , prosperity or dis- aster ? Will it not be found in this re- spect , above all ...
... beauty or deformity in this moral kind ? Or allowing that there really is , must it not , of conse- quence , in the same manner imply health or sickliness , prosperity or dis- aster ? Will it not be found in this re- spect , above all ...
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