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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... talk was now of tithes and dues ; He smoked his pipe , and read the news ; Knew how to preach old sermons next , Vamped in the preface and the text ; At christenings well could act his part , And had the service all by heart ; Wished ...
... talk was now of tithes and dues ; He smoked his pipe , and read the news ; Knew how to preach old sermons next , Vamped in the preface and the text ; At christenings well could act his part , And had the service all by heart ; Wished ...
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... talk . You may laugh in as many ways as you talk ; and surely every way of talking that is practised cannot be esteemed . " I spoke of Sir James Macdonald as a young man of most distinguished merit , who united the highest repu- tation ...
... talk . You may laugh in as many ways as you talk ; and surely every way of talking that is practised cannot be esteemed . " I spoke of Sir James Macdonald as a young man of most distinguished merit , who united the highest repu- tation ...
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... talk , and I made it my business to talk . I find it does a man good to be talked to by his Sov- ereign . In the first place , a man cannot be in a passior- . " Here some question interrupted him , which is to be re- gretted , as he ...
... talk , and I made it my business to talk . I find it does a man good to be talked to by his Sov- ereign . In the first place , a man cannot be in a passior- . " Here some question interrupted him , which is to be re- gretted , as he ...
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