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...Florian Gargaillo Abstract In a review of T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral , Stevie Smith lamented that “so many writers of these times, which need courage and the power of criticism, and coolness, should find their chief delight in terrifying themselves and their readers with past echoes...

... made his Chief, although definitely not a person who would hold fast to an idea or belief no matter what happened, resemble Candide in respect to ingenuousness, frankness, and sincerity. And both charac- ters possessed a lively curiosity and were doomed to experience almost continual...

... (Chapter 22)l turns out to be “the Parki, of Lahaina, a village and harbor on the coast of Mowee.” Lahaina is the port on Maui where Melville first landed in the Hawaiian Islands. “Her appellative had been bestowed in honor of a high chief, the tallest and goodliest looking gentleman in all...

... reformation was the Queen’s chief study? ’Tis absurd to suppose, ’tis impossible for any man to imagine.” By way of explaining away evidence that Falstaff had first been Oldcastle, P. T. undertook to refute only the supposed pun on the line, “As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle.” He...

... of the Gesellschjt fiir Erdkunde and editor of the Zeitschrift fiir Erdkunde. He was appointed Dozent and later professor at the Hochschule fiir Politik which in 1940 was made part of the University of Berlin. His chief work, according to his student and biographer, Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt, is his...

... for The Prairie, one specific, one general. Early in 18-36 Cooper had met a delegation of Sioux and Pawnee chiefs in New York and had become so interested in them that he followed them to Washington. He had already planned a new romance connected with the mounted tribes of the prairies, his...

... ; and as Magnanimity may run up to Profusion or Extravagance, so may a great Invention to Redundancy or Wildness. If we look upon Homw in this View, we shall perceive the Chief Objections against him to proceed from so noble a Cause as the excess of this Faculty.@ 8 MSS, I, 13r; Iliad, I, Flr. 7...

... Prince’s wit. According to Elizabethan dramaturgy, a character’s chief trait should appear at his initial entrance; and in the first lines of the first scene in which Falstaff comes on the stage in Henry IV, Part 11, he calls himself the com- mon butt of humor, and declares, “Men of all sorts...

... from its predominance and becomes a subsidiary element in increasingly diverse kinds of discourse in which the chief regulating image is economic. The close readings are very uneven in quality, but at their best they are intelligent and illuminating, and even the more mundane discussions...

... provide “leads” which are more than usually suggestive. In genial reminiscence, Miss Bates, who, after 1913, was Robin- son’s chief Peterborough typist, furnishes a partial record of the evolution of many of Robinson’s most noted poems. Incidentally, she provides some significant side...

... left by Castiglione. Edmund Spen- ser offers six chief knights as models of Renaissance courtliness (Red Cross Knight, Guyon, Britomart, Marinell, Artegall, Calidore) and specifically avows that he had chosen the Ethics of Aristotle for his outline of virtues to be extolled. Marlowe...

... wrote the older play, its date, and its characters. The chief point to be kept in mind is that the ur-Histriomastix no longer exists-though it once required considerable searching on my part to discover this, so con- fidently do the critics talk about the older play. The decision...

..., drawing upon lessons taught in the “weeklies,” emphasize in their principal female characters evils and vices to be overcome. Frau Gottsched, however, anticipates in some measure the next generation represented by Kriiger, in whose plays a more positive approach is apparent. His chief feminine...

... coilplets. Thereafter it appeared as a Pindaric ode, and in six variant forms in octosyllabic couplets, the sixth appearing in the Dodsley edition. Mr. Boys’ chief task has been both to indicate the differ- ences among the various versions and to demonstrate a progression from one to the other...

... of this poem.” Next to Fnust, the works of Dante, Cervantes, and MoliGre seem to have received Longfellow’s chief attention. CARLJ. WEBER Colhy Collegr, IVaterzdle, Maine The Enjoyment of thc Arts. Edited by MAX SCIIOEN.New York...

... of Hamilton his fight was carried on by Chief Justice Mar- shall and Daniel Webster, while the democratic leadership was the heritage of the uncouth Andrew Jackson. Against this political background, the McGuffey Readers are rep- resented as the upholders of the conservative as against the demo...

... “leads” which are more than usually suggestive. In genial reminiscence, Miss Bates, who, after 1913, was Robin- son’s chief Peterborough typist, furnishes a partial record of the evolution of many of Robinson’s most noted poems. Incidentally, she provides some significant side lights...

... is discursive. It is, however, as a source study that the book has its chief importance. Eisner adopts the traditional view that the loathly lady is of Irish origin. He argues ingeniously for Welsh-Breton transmission to France. Unfortunately, the argument rests on inconclusive evidence from...

..., Capitolo on Fortune, Familiar Letters, and ten of the Discourses on Livy. Its chief merit is that it makes available within a single inex- pensive volume The Prince and samples of such others of Machia- velli’s works as are helpful in understanding it. The translator’s elaborate...

...” of diverse materials. And literary history becomes the literature-centered history of genres. Conversely, the chief objects of their disapproval are positivism and rela- tivism. Though both authors are too sound scholars to throw historical method out the window, they decry attempts at causal...