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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... least in worth or fame . The world to Bacon does not only owe Its present knowledge , but its future too . Gilbert shall live , till loadstones cease to draw , Or British fleets the boundless ocean awe . And noble Boyle , not less in ...
... least in worth or fame . The world to Bacon does not only owe Its present knowledge , but its future too . Gilbert shall live , till loadstones cease to draw , Or British fleets the boundless ocean awe . And noble Boyle , not less in ...
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... least temptation to vary from it , while I retain in my mind the lec- tures and example of my noble mas- ter , and the other illustrious Hou- yhnhnms , of whom I had so long the honour to be an humble hearer . -Nec si miserum Fortuna ...
... least temptation to vary from it , while I retain in my mind the lec- tures and example of my noble mas- ter , and the other illustrious Hou- yhnhnms , of whom I had so long the honour to be an humble hearer . -Nec si miserum Fortuna ...
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... least tincture of a school , or the least conversation with such as had . Ben Jonson ( whom they will not think partial to him ) allows him at least to have had some Latin ; which is utterly inconsistent with mistakes like these . Nay ...
... least tincture of a school , or the least conversation with such as had . Ben Jonson ( whom they will not think partial to him ) allows him at least to have had some Latin ; which is utterly inconsistent with mistakes like these . Nay ...
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