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 49
... laws . For laws are only made to punish those 610 Who serve the king , and to protect his foes . If any leisure time he had from pow'r , ( Because ' t is sin to misemploy an hour ) His bus'ness was , by writing , to persuade That kings ...
... laws . For laws are only made to punish those 610 Who serve the king , and to protect his foes . If any leisure time he had from pow'r , ( Because ' t is sin to misemploy an hour ) His bus'ness was , by writing , to persuade That kings ...
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... law supplant his prince ; The people's brave , the politician's tool ; Never was Patriot yet , but was a fool . Whence comes it that religion and the laws Should more be Absalom's than David's cause ? 970 His old instructor , ere he ...
... law supplant his prince ; The people's brave , the politician's tool ; Never was Patriot yet , but was a fool . Whence comes it that religion and the laws Should more be Absalom's than David's cause ? 970 His old instructor , ere he ...
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... laws preserve each state , Laws wise as nature and as fixed as fate . In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , Entangle justice in her net of law , And right , too rigid , harden into wrong ; Still for the strong too weak , the weak ...
... laws preserve each state , Laws wise as nature and as fixed as fate . In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , Entangle justice in her net of law , And right , too rigid , harden into wrong ; Still for the strong too weak , the weak ...
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