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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... present , or as things now stand ; but we know not how soon it may be so when the Chris- tian religion is repealed . As plausible as this project seems , there may a dangerous design lurk under it : Noth- ing can be more notorious ...
... present , or as things now stand ; but we know not how soon it may be so when the Chris- tian religion is repealed . As plausible as this project seems , there may a dangerous design lurk under it : Noth- ing can be more notorious ...
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... present . I had informed him , that some of our crew left their country on account of being ruined by Law ; that I had already ex- plained the meaning of the word ; but he was at a loss how it should come to pass , that the law which ...
... present . I had informed him , that some of our crew left their country on account of being ruined by Law ; that I had already ex- plained the meaning of the word ; but he was at a loss how it should come to pass , that the law which ...
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... present concerned in the house , acted on that occasion . There has not been known so great a concourse of persons of distinction as at that time ; the stage itself was cov- ered with gentlemen and ladies , and when the curtain was ...
... present concerned in the house , acted on that occasion . There has not been known so great a concourse of persons of distinction as at that time ; the stage itself was cov- ered with gentlemen and ladies , and when the curtain was ...
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