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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (3): 243–254.
Published: 01 September 1971
... in Other Cotintics,” .” I%ox14.12: 1 ‘ygeni bret h kl anori ti ni DAVID C. FOWLER 247 Trevisa and Penscawen, that they hold one Cornish acre in Trevysa and two acres in Penscawen, and that they render per year six shillings...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 291–300.
Published: 01 December 1960
... a large fortune and would marry her for it. When he learns the truth, he quietly disappears from Tabitha’s life and from the novel. (2) In The Rivals, Acres, who says that he is in “a most devouring rage” (IV.i), sends a written challenge to a rival in love; but when he finds...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 369–375.
Published: 01 December 1975
... and the Noise of Towns, Contented breaths his Native Air, 111 his own Grounds. And in 1736 appeared the final version: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Con tent to Ixeathe his native air...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (4): 315–320.
Published: 01 December 1959
...), undated and with no postmark, wherein Lamb wrote : A thousand thanks for your punctualities. What a cheap Book is the last Ho- garth you sent me! I am pleased now that Hunt diddled me out of the old one. Speaking of this, only think of the new farmer with his 30 acres...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 246–252.
Published: 01 September 1960
... Hoffmann,* the first translator of this comedy, Tieck made some slight changes : he transferred the scene of the action from Bath to Pyrmont and supplied the characters, when necessary, with German names-Baron von Absolut (Sir Anthony Absolute), Herr von Ackerland (Acres), Frau von Storrwald (Mrs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 149–162.
Published: 01 June 1952
..., will you dance with my sister in the next round?” In either case the answer is, “Would a duck swim PAGE310 : “Mr. Cowe Conacre” P. W. Joyce, p. 238: Conacre; letting land in patches for a short period. A farmer divides a large field into small portions-% acre, % acre, and lets...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 109–110.
Published: 01 March 1952
... of the new realism of Herne’s Shore Acres and Murguret Flemttitsg, Howard‘s Aristocracy, Howells’ The Mouse-Trap, Wilde’s Ludy Windemere’s Fun, the first well-made play-Pinero’s The Second Mrs. Tunqueruy-first productions in English of Hauptmann (in this case, Hunnate), Sudermann’s Magdu...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 108–109.
Published: 01 March 1952
..., marked by first productions in New York of the new realism of Herne’s Shore Acres and Murguret Flemttitsg, Howard‘s Aristocracy, Howells’ The Mouse-Trap, Wilde’s Ludy Windemere’s Fun, the first well-made play-Pinero’s The Second Mrs. Tunqueruy-first productions in English of Hauptmann...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 March 1942
...? Wag. No, sirrah; in beaten silk and staves-acre. . . . Clom. Oho, oho, staves-acre! why, then, belike, if I were your man, I should be full of vermin. 6Also The Unfortunaff Traveller, 11, 208: “. . . to name him within fortie foote of an alehouse. 6The same combination...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 408–411.
Published: 01 September 2015
...). Walcott is also invoked at the end of the study to sanctify the post–Civil War emancipation proclamation concerning forty acres and a mule (285). Not wanting to end my appreciation of this book with a quibble about Gikandi’s overreach to shift from the legacies of the British Empire to the global...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (4): 380–382.
Published: 01 December 1956
...). Luis VClez de Guevara: El Embustr Acre- ditado. Granada : Universidad de Granada, Colleccih Filol6gica, XII, 1956. Pp. 364. Roberts, Kimberley S. An Anthology of Old Portuguese. Lisboa: Livraria Portugal, 1956. Pp. 435. Schlegel, Dorothy B. Shaftesbury and the French Deists...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 143–147.
Published: 01 June 1944
.... I 146 Two Spenser Leases Three years later, on January 6, 1586, Wallop wrote Walsingham of plans for developing what we later learn was a tract of 360 acres leased from Synnot for i15O.l5 Though I cannot discover any interest on Wallop’s part in this property...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 150–154.
Published: 01 June 1951
... one among millions, the law permits to hold thousands of acres as his single share, is not entitled to think that all is given to him to use and abuse, and deal with it as if it concerned nobody but himself. The rents or profits which he can obtain from it are his, and his only...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 156–171.
Published: 01 June 1972
... our Kose rl’rec; 01- ni;iyl>c1)ut ;I wind hitI>lows Acre\\ t tic hi t tcr \c;i .” ( 1-6) CHARLES ALTIERI 165 Each poem is concerned with giving life to a metaphoric tree: in “Pray- er” the tree is nourished...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 123–155.
Published: 01 June 2012
... original, heroic name is Wyandotté, not revealed to us until chapter of the second vol- ume. The Hutted Knoll names the site and original buildings near Unadilla Creek, where Willoughby began settling his six thousand acres of native land gifted to him by royal patent. It is important to realize...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 507–515.
Published: 01 December 1942
... of these grants is the well known Kilcolman estate of about 3000 acres. That it was not particularly profitable to Spenser is evidenced by the fact that 508 Spenser’s “Vkd:Some Observations he died in poverty. That he starved to death is probably not literally true, for Mrs. Bennett has...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 193–200.
Published: 01 June 1944
... finishing a tragedy on “le siege de Saint-Jean-”Acre” (p. 1). 30 Holcroft in Hamburg, 1799-1800 (Stockley, op. cit., p. 283). For Mellish’s visit early in 1797, see J. M. Lappenberg, Briefe von und an Klopstock (Braunschweig, 1867), p. 533. To illustrate how possible it is for his country...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (1): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 1985
... on his half acre recalls the trifunctional images of the first vision; however, proper secular lordship and true labor begin to disinte- grate when some men become idlers and knighthood is ineffective in stopping them (VI.115-70). The implication is that neither estate has appropriate spiritual...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (4): 323–332.
Published: 01 December 1952
...? I’ll do ’t. Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (2): 187–198.
Published: 01 June 1974
.... As the non-Shakespearean works analyzed by all three books clearly evince, these three writers are exploring the same few acres, though as might be expected each sees a different landscape. Felperin’s plays are Pericles, Cymbeline, Henry VIII, The Winter‘s Tale, and The Tempest. Smith’s...