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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... Look next if human nature makes amends , Whose principles are most generous and just , And to whose morals , you would sooner trust . Be judge yourself , I'll bring it to the test , Which is the basest creature , man or beast : Birds ...
... Look next if human nature makes amends , Whose principles are most generous and just , And to whose morals , you would sooner trust . Be judge yourself , I'll bring it to the test , Which is the basest creature , man or beast : Birds ...
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... look'd , sigh'd and look'd , Sigh'd and look'd , and sigh'd again : At length , with love and wine at once op- press'd , The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast . CHORUS The prince , unable to conceal his pain , Gaz'd on the fair Who ...
... look'd , sigh'd and look'd , Sigh'd and look'd , and sigh'd again : At length , with love and wine at once op- press'd , The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast . CHORUS The prince , unable to conceal his pain , Gaz'd on the fair Who ...
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... look up and assay to shout ; they listen , Then laugh in the dismal den , then are silent , and a light walks round the dark towers : For the Commons convene in the Hall of the Nation , like spirits of fire in the beautiful Porches of ...
... look up and assay to shout ; they listen , Then laugh in the dismal den , then are silent , and a light walks round the dark towers : For the Commons convene in the Hall of the Nation , like spirits of fire in the beautiful Porches of ...
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