... Street lawyer. The parallels are remarkable both in broad outline and frequently in detail; even the language is often similar, as evidenced here et passim. “Unless the action is necessary, unless it is adequate, I do not wish to perform it. I do not wish to do one thing but once. I do not love...

... dramatically conceived personifications like Langland’s Lady Mede in fourteenth- century England and the composite Fauvel in fourteenth-century France. Dan Denier himself was known to Rutebeuf when he attacked the avarice and venality of the ecclesiastical lawyers. Ce qui ert...

... constantly in mind the fact that we were writing for three classes of readers. First of all, we had in mind the student and lover of the plays. . . . Second, we have written this book for the lawyer. . . , Last, we hope that many people who are not professional specialists in either...

... doctrines of the British constitution, or in what were called English liberties. You remember also that our lawyers were then all Whigs. But when his black-letter text and uncouth but cun- ning learning got out of fashion, and the honied Mansfieldism of Blackstone became...

... insist, Shakespeare and his fellow drama- tists were writing plays for an untechnical audience, not treatises on the law for expert lawyers. Even if Shakespeare had been master of all the subtleties of legal technicalities, they would not necessarily have made any considerable appearance in his...

... poetry Taylor has turned illu- sion into reality! Taylor misused Scripture in this case; he read “Advocate” as lawyer, which makes it possible for him to have the pun lawyer/ltar when he refers to Jesus “pleading the sinner guiltless.” (p. 110) These comments provide...

... diffidence, feeling overawed by a recent bibliography of criticism of the story which contains 117 items and includes the names of the most formidable Melville scho1ars.l The diversity of critical reaction to the story is striking. Some critics focus upon Bartleby, some upon the un- named lawyer...

... verdict. Moreover, ancillary devices, such as the use of legal vocabulary and legal aphorisms and images based upon trials, and the figure of Clamence as an ex-lawyer, contribute indirectly to the trial atmosphere which pervades the novel. Camus’s last major work presents the interesting...

... of this review and quotes G. W. Petersen of Darmstadt, who informed Nicolai on November 6, 1772, that the piece was said to have been written by a Frankfurt lawyer. Morris believes the lawyer must have been Goethe, and yet he prefers to regard Herder as the author.8 Oskar Walzel, in his notes...

.... Its significance grows to the end. Thus, the lawyer’s announcement of the verdict, “Non-lieu,” in Thtrkse Desgueyroux, and, in Le Ncmd de viptres, Isa’s exultant cry, “Les titres y sont,” which Louis thinks he can hear post-mortem, reverberate through the respective novels and, like...

... with an integrity of its own. Buchanan had uGque qualifications for the task he undertook as early as 1961. He is an Edinburgh lawyer whose father represented Colonel Isham for many years and who himself, as a member of the same firm, had sotne part in tnore recent developments. Many of the documents...

... for the lawyer C. Trebatius Testa, to whom Horace had addressed his own defense of satire, Settling on his friend William Fortescue, the barrister, Pope applauded his decision to “make you Trebatius, who was yet one of the most considerable lawyers of his time, and a particular friend of a poet...

... is staged in connection with a game of chess in The Spanish Curate (1622), by Fletcher and Mas- singer, but none of this atmosphere of deep seriousness pervades it. Instead, the game serves an important function in a subplot designed either to cuckold and humble a usurous lawyer or to reform...

... probably available to Jonson. 386 VOLPONE AND LATE MORALITY TRADITION in the form of a legacy, can function as a weapon against the venal elements in Venice (or London), appropriately represented by a Mer- chant, a Miser, and a Lawyer who possess respectively a young wife...

... Leicester’s house. In some sense, then, this is the moment when Bucket steps into the dead lawyer’s shoes, and in the great scene to follow he will take over one of Tulkinghorn’s most memorable symbols, wagging his great forefinger as he bullies Hortense, just as the solicitor, fulfilling the same...

... in desperation they revived their attempt of eight years before to get him a consulship. As before, his brother Allan took the lead. On February 18 he wrote to George Griggs, their sister Helen Maria’s husband, a Boston lawyer, concerning the post at Florence. Griggs replied, from Boston...

... of loyalty; The Wolf and the Lomb favors the peasant over the rich and powerful and their creature, the lawyer; The Sheep ad the Dog criticizes the judiciary by having the Sheep hailed into court only “because that he wes pure.” “It becomes increasingly evident that Henryson not only...

... Beadle, has its “diurnals” of affairs, tradesmen keep their shop books, merchants their accounts, lawyers their books of precedents and physicians theirs of experiments, wary heads of households their records of daily disbursements and travelers theirs of things seen and endured. But Chris...

... appropriate to a book on Trollope is the statement by the authors in their preface that “we hare inserted in the list a grouping by names of the doctors, lawyers, moneylenders and Americans appearing in the novels, students of the various universities and col- leges. . . .” Trollope would have...

...: the hypermasculine “new Hebrew man.” Notably, the men in “Ziva” do not embrace the new ethos of physical labor that was an essential component of the Zionist Socialist masculine ideal; instead, they are European doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, and other...