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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Pagina 141
... 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 ...
Pagina 528
... pleased , And by what way , whether by hemp or steel . Death's thousand doors stand open . Who could force The ill - pleased guest to sit out his full time , Or blame him if he goes ? Sure he does well That helps himself as timely as he ...
... pleased , And by what way , whether by hemp or steel . Death's thousand doors stand open . Who could force The ill - pleased guest to sit out his full time , Or blame him if he goes ? Sure he does well That helps himself as timely as he ...
Pagina 701
... pleased with every kind of knowledge , imagining that the time would come when all his ac- quisitions should be of use to him in the open world . He came one day to amuse himself in his usual manner , and found the master busy in build ...
... pleased with every kind of knowledge , imagining that the time would come when all his ac- quisitions should be of use to him in the open world . He came one day to amuse himself in his usual manner , and found the master busy in build ...
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