St. Martin's Anthologies of English Literature: Volume 3, Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1160-1798)The selection of writing in this anthology brings alive the excitement, wit, and exuberance of the Restoration and eighteenth century. |
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... father was a butcher , and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours , that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade , but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style , and make a speech . There was at that ...
... father was a butcher , and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours , that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade , but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style , and make a speech . There was at that ...
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... father got him with a greater gust ; Or that his conscious destiny made way By manly beauty to imperial sway . Early in foreign fields he won renown , With kings and states allied to Israel's crown : In peace the thoughts of war he ...
... father got him with a greater gust ; Or that his conscious destiny made way By manly beauty to imperial sway . Early in foreign fields he won renown , With kings and states allied to Israel's crown : In peace the thoughts of war he ...
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... father governs with unquestioned right , The faith's defender , and mankind's delight ; Good , gracious , just , observant of the laws ; And Heaven by wonders has espoused his cause . Whom has he wronged in all his peaceful reign ? Who ...
... father governs with unquestioned right , The faith's defender , and mankind's delight ; Good , gracious , just , observant of the laws ; And Heaven by wonders has espoused his cause . Whom has he wronged in all his peaceful reign ? Who ...
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... father from his toils shall rest , And late augment the number of the blest , His lawful issue shall the throne ... father's mildness I condemn ; But manly force becomes the diadem . ' Tis true , he grants the people all they crave , And ...
... father from his toils shall rest , And late augment the number of the blest , His lawful issue shall the throne ... father's mildness I condemn ; But manly force becomes the diadem . ' Tis true , he grants the people all they crave , And ...
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... father's right , and fear of future fame ; The public good , that universal call , To which even Heaven submitted , answers all . Nor let his love enchant your generous mind ; ' Tis Nature's trick to propagate her kind . Our fond ...
... father's right , and fear of future fame ; The public good , that universal call , To which even Heaven submitted , answers all . Nor let his love enchant your generous mind ; ' Tis Nature's trick to propagate her kind . Our fond ...
Contents
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To My Honoured Kinsman John Driden | 55 |
From Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy | 62 |
JOHN WILMOT | 72 |
WILLIAM DAMPIER | 83 |
From Moll Flanders | 93 |
A Description of the Morning | 108 |
Age | 367 |
From A Sentimental Journey through | 379 |
West | 387 |
The Bard A Pindaric Ode | 394 |
HORACE WALPOLE | 401 |
TOBIAS SMOLLETT | 407 |
CHRISTOPHER SMART | 415 |
ADAM SMITH | 428 |
A Modest Proposal | 137 |
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going | 145 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE | 156 |
COLLEY CIBBER | 166 |
SIR RICHARD STEELE | 171 |
JOHN GAY | 187 |
ALEXANDER POPE | 205 |
of Women | 236 |
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU | 256 |
SAMUEL RICHARDSON | 269 |
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE | 279 |
JAMES THOMSON | 287 |
From The Castle of Indolence | 293 |
SAMUEL JOHNSON | 310 |
From Preface to A Dictionary of | 325 |
From The Lives of the Poets | 349 |
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS | 430 |
EDMUND BURKE | 437 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 449 |
WILLIAM COWPER | 463 |
JAMES MACPHERSON | 470 |
JAMES BOSWELL | 488 |
HENRY MACKENZIE | 502 |
Andrews | 509 |
FANNY BURNEY | 524 |
GEORGE CRABBE | 530 |
ROBERT BURNS | 544 |
WILLIAM BECKFORD | 559 |
JANE AUSTEN | 571 |
Index of First Lines | 580 |
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