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...C. William Miller Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 A SOURCE NOTE ON BOYLE’S THE GENERALL By C. WILLIAMMILLER Professor William S. Clark, 11, in his excellent edition of The Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery; states that when Boyle...

...Robert R. Boyle, S.J. Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE IMAGERY OF MACBETH, I, vii, 21-28 By ROBERTR. BOYLE,S.J. The Variorum gives ample testimony of the efforts of critics to explain Macbeth’s sonorous lines : And pity...

... and the history of ideas. In major fictions and narrations Milton’s poetry apperceives, thematizes, and embodies—prehensively, as it were—a unique occasion of historical change, as if from BC to AD: from John Dee to Robert Boyle, or from occult correspondences and secret world-connecting sympathies, to mechanical...

...Jane K. Brown Boyle Nicholas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xx + 807 pp. $37.50. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 562 REVIEWS it the possibility of a critique usually associated only with the rise of Puritanism...

...Jane K. Brown Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.3-05 Reviews 7/12/01 1:22 PM Page 285 Reviews Practicing...

...), William Rufus Chetwood’s The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle ( 1726), Edward Topham’s incomparable Life of the Late John Elwes (1790), Thomas Carte’s monumental His- tory of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde (1736), and others too numerous to mention. In a chapter...

...–1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. When Nicholas Boyle published the first volume of his Goethe biography in 1991, there was widespread agreement that this elegantly written work...

... 300 MLQ ❙ September 2001 Revolution and Renunciation, 1790–1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. When Nicholas Boyle published the first volume of his...

... 300 MLQ ❙ September 2001 Revolution and Renunciation, 1790–1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. When Nicholas Boyle published the first volume of his...

...–1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. When Nicholas Boyle published the first volume of his Goethe biography in 1991, there was widespread agreement that this elegantly written work...

... 300 MLQ ❙ September 2001 Revolution and Renunciation, 1790–1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. When Nicholas Boyle published the first volume of his...

..., Olden- burg comments on it at length to Robert Boyle, who was then at Oxford and dependent on letters for knowledge of the doings of his fellows. His remarks must be given in full. Mr. Sprat intends to begin next week to print the History of our institu- tion, which hath...

... In February, 1661, a special committee on for- eign inquiries was formed;26 others were sent to books for suit- able At length a model outline was published in Philo- sophical Tt-ansactions,28 the work of Robert Boyle and entitled “General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, great...

... he focuses upon some widely pervasive image in Hopkins, just as Father Robert Boyle, S.J., did in his book by that name.12 Like Boyle, Johnson adduces parallels from other Hopkins poems to indicate the width of each usage. But their ambit is utterly different. Boyle kept vigilantly...

... Materialism, are all about these twin impulses. To gain access to the ontological order of plot in the realist novel, Lee relies on the discourse of science. Her reading of Defoe’s novels draws on what she sees as the mechanistic models of the seventeenth century (Newton and Boyle), her account of Henry...

... way an extension coinciding with that of the universe seemed close to swallowing up God in the cosmos. Robert Boyle warned that, since a “spirit is incorporeal substance . . . he that I speak to needs not employ (nor indeed properly can employ) his imagination, to form the notion...

... an academy, the argument as to the dates and the conclusion as to Dryden’s in- fluence appear to be It seems to me, morecver, going a step beyond Emerson, that the public advocacy of an academy led to the creation of the committee. Oldenburg wrote to Boyle on November 24; Sprat was to begin...

...- pecunious Englishman, if favored by the government, and if wise in the management of his property, might in a few years become an influential figure among the landed gentry. Richard Boyle, the great earl of Cork, is the classic example of what could be achieved. The young poet and secretary...

... the English books noted are Samuel Hartlib’s A Common Writing (1647), concerning which Boyle wrote : “If the design of the Real Character take effect, it will in good part make amends to mankind for that their pride lost them at the tower of Babel. And truly, since our arithmetical characters...

... growes the more I her intreat? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat is not delayd by her hart frosen cold : but that I burne much more in boyling sweat, and feele my flames augmented manifold? What more miraculous thing may be told that fire which all...