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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... common rule was made the common prey , And at the mercy of the rabble lay . The tender page with horny fists was gall'd , And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd : The spirit gave the doctoral degree , And every member of a company ...
... common rule was made the common prey , And at the mercy of the rabble lay . The tender page with horny fists was gall'd , And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd : The spirit gave the doctoral degree , And every member of a company ...
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... common sense , and common ease . Remember , man , " the Universal Cause Acts not by partial , but by general laws ; " And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one , but all . There's not a blessing individuals ...
... common sense , and common ease . Remember , man , " the Universal Cause Acts not by partial , but by general laws ; " And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one , but all . There's not a blessing individuals ...
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... common suffrage . One can- not therefore wonder , if Shakespeare , having at his first appearance no other aim in his writings than to procure a subsistence , directed his endeavours solely to hit the taste and humour that then ...
... common suffrage . One can- not therefore wonder , if Shakespeare , having at his first appearance no other aim in his writings than to procure a subsistence , directed his endeavours solely to hit the taste and humour that then ...
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