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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... force confess'd , And , to be shorn , lay slumb'ring on her breast . But , when this fatal counsel , found too late , Expos'd its author to the public hate ; When his just sovereign , by no impious way . Could be seduc'd to arbitrary ...
... force confess'd , And , to be shorn , lay slumb'ring on her breast . But , when this fatal counsel , found too late , Expos'd its author to the public hate ; When his just sovereign , by no impious way . Could be seduc'd to arbitrary ...
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... force of imagination , to the secret virtues of several herbs , and to the powers of sounds . And I am sorry the natural history or account of fascination has not employed the pen of some person of such excellent wit and deep thought ...
... force of imagination , to the secret virtues of several herbs , and to the powers of sounds . And I am sorry the natural history or account of fascination has not employed the pen of some person of such excellent wit and deep thought ...
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... force through succeeding gen- erations , yet that they continue to de- rive their force from the consent of the living . A law not repealed con- tinues in force , not because it cannot be repealed , but because it is not re- pealed ...
... force through succeeding gen- erations , yet that they continue to de- rive their force from the consent of the living . A law not repealed con- tinues in force , not because it cannot be repealed , but because it is not re- pealed ...
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