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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... eyes your steps aloof , and oft 70 Lies perdue in a nook or gloomy cave , Prompt to enchant some inadvertent wretch With his unhallowed touch . So , poets sing , Grimalkin , to domestic vermin sworn An everlasting foe , with watchful eye ...
... eyes your steps aloof , and oft 70 Lies perdue in a nook or gloomy cave , Prompt to enchant some inadvertent wretch With his unhallowed touch . So , poets sing , Grimalkin , to domestic vermin sworn An everlasting foe , with watchful eye ...
Pagina 356
... eyes first opened on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardors were no sooner read , But all the vision vanished from thy head . And now , unveiled , the toilet stands dis- played , 121 Each silver vase in mystic order laid . First ...
... eyes first opened on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardors were no sooner read , But all the vision vanished from thy head . And now , unveiled , the toilet stands dis- played , 121 Each silver vase in mystic order laid . First ...
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... eyes half - languishing , half - drowned in tears ; On her heaved bosom hung her drooping head , Which , with a sigh , she raised ; and thus she said : " Forever cursed be this detested day , Which snatched my best , my favorite curl ...
... eyes half - languishing , half - drowned in tears ; On her heaved bosom hung her drooping head , Which , with a sigh , she raised ; and thus she said : " Forever cursed be this detested day , Which snatched my best , my favorite curl ...
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