Eighteenth Century Poetry & ProseLouis Ignatius Bredvold, Alan Dugald McKillop, Lois Whitney, Lois Whitney McIntyre 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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... pleased with , so they are very little pleased with many things they laugh at . But this mistake is very general , and such modern poets as found no better way of pleasing thought they could not fail of it by ridiculing . This was ...
... pleased with , so they are very little pleased with many things they laugh at . But this mistake is very general , and such modern poets as found no better way of pleasing thought they could not fail of it by ridiculing . This was ...
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... pleased to command me : only desiring his excuse , if I did not expose those parts , that nature taught us to conceal . He said my discourse was all very strange , but especially the last part ; for he could not understand , why nature ...
... pleased to command me : only desiring his excuse , if I did not expose those parts , that nature taught us to conceal . He said my discourse was all very strange , but especially the last part ; for he could not understand , why nature ...
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... Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth de- light , A little louder , but as empty quite ; Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage , 279 And beads and prayerbooks are the toys of ...
... Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth de- light , A little louder , but as empty quite ; Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage , 279 And beads and prayerbooks are the toys of ...
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