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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... less art and need- ing less spirit , because a certain chime in the sounds supplied that want and pleased common ears , this in time grew the most general among all the Gothic colonies in Europe , and made rhymes or runes pass for the ...
... less art and need- ing less spirit , because a certain chime in the sounds supplied that want and pleased common ears , this in time grew the most general among all the Gothic colonies in Europe , and made rhymes or runes pass for the ...
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... less pleasing , though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale , Nor let the imprisoned essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows e'er they drop in showers A brighter ...
... less pleasing , though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale , Nor let the imprisoned essences exhale ; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flowers ; To steal from rainbows e'er they drop in showers A brighter ...
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... less pain , because I could relieve it . Yet some have refused my bounties , more of- fended with my quickness to detect their wants , than pleased with my readiness to succour them ; and others , whose exigencies compelled them to ...
... less pain , because I could relieve it . Yet some have refused my bounties , more of- fended with my quickness to detect their wants , than pleased with my readiness to succour them ; and others , whose exigencies compelled them to ...
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