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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... whole must fall . 250 Let earth unbalanced from her orbit fly , Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurled , Being on being wrecked , and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to ...
... whole must fall . 250 Let earth unbalanced from her orbit fly , Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurled , Being on being wrecked , and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to ...
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... whole . Man , but for that , no action could attend , 61 And but for this , were active to no end : Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot , To draw nutrition , propagate , and rot ; Or , meteor - like , flame lawless through the void ...
... whole . Man , but for that , no action could attend , 61 And but for this , were active to no end : Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot , To draw nutrition , propagate , and rot ; Or , meteor - like , flame lawless through the void ...
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... whole , The body's harmony , the beaming soul , Are things which Kuster , Burman , Wasse shall see , When Man's whole frame is obvious to a flea . " Ah , think not , Mistress ! more true dull- ness lies In Folly's cap , than Wisdom's ...
... whole , The body's harmony , the beaming soul , Are things which Kuster , Burman , Wasse shall see , When Man's whole frame is obvious to a flea . " Ah , think not , Mistress ! more true dull- ness lies In Folly's cap , than Wisdom's ...
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