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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... seems to have been as old as their letters ; and their laws , their precepts of wisdom as well as their records , their religious rites as well as their charms and incantations , to have been all in verse . Among the Hebrews , and even ...
... seems to have been as old as their letters ; and their laws , their precepts of wisdom as well as their records , their religious rites as well as their charms and incantations , to have been all in verse . Among the Hebrews , and even ...
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... seems modern and a production of the Gothic genius , yet the writing is ancient . The remain- ders of Petronius Arbiter seem to be of this kind , and that which Lucian calls his True History . But the most ancient that passes by the ...
... seems modern and a production of the Gothic genius , yet the writing is ancient . The remain- ders of Petronius Arbiter seem to be of this kind , and that which Lucian calls his True History . But the most ancient that passes by the ...
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... seems de- clining . This only may be remarked in general , that whenever taverns flourish most , the times are then most extravagant and luxurious .-- " Lord ! Mrs. Quickly , " interrupted I , " you have really deceived me ; I expected ...
... seems de- clining . This only may be remarked in general , that whenever taverns flourish most , the times are then most extravagant and luxurious .-- " Lord ! Mrs. Quickly , " interrupted I , " you have really deceived me ; I expected ...
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