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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... NIGHT - PIECE ON DEATH By the blue taper's trembling light , No more I waste the wakeful night , Intent with endless view to pore The schoolmen and the sages o'er : Their books from wisdom widely stray , Or point at best the longest way ...
... NIGHT - PIECE ON DEATH By the blue taper's trembling light , No more I waste the wakeful night , Intent with endless view to pore The schoolmen and the sages o'er : Their books from wisdom widely stray , Or point at best the longest way ...
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... Night Thoughts on Life , Death , and Immortality ( 1742-46 ) . Moved by the successive deaths of Lucia , Philander , and Narcissa ( shadowy individuals who do not correspond exactly to the members of Young's own ... Night Thoughts: Night I.
... Night Thoughts on Life , Death , and Immortality ( 1742-46 ) . Moved by the successive deaths of Lucia , Philander , and Narcissa ( shadowy individuals who do not correspond exactly to the members of Young's own ... Night Thoughts: Night I.
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... night's foul bird , Rooked ' in the spire , screams loud ; the gloomy aisles , Black - plastered , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And tattered coats of arms , send back the sound Laden with heavier airs , from the low vaults ...
... night's foul bird , Rooked ' in the spire , screams loud ; the gloomy aisles , Black - plastered , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And tattered coats of arms , send back the sound Laden with heavier airs , from the low vaults ...
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