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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 258–263.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Judy Kronenfeld Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England . By Ramie Targoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xiii + 162 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews
The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 287–288.
Published: 01 September 1959
...Maurice J. Quinlan E. L. McAdam, Jr., Donald, and Mary Hyde. Samuel Johnson: Diaries, Prayers and Annals . New Haven: Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I; London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. xxi + 461. $10.00. © 1959 University of Washington 1959...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (2): 111–117.
Published: 01 June 1956
...Raymond Carter Sutherland Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 DR. JOHNSON AND THE COLLECT
By RAYMONDCARTER SUTHERLAND
That Dr. Johnson did not use the Collect form may come as a sur-
prise to the readers of his Prayers and Meditationd One...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (1): 39–50.
Published: 01 March 1983
..., which “prophesies, in anguish of
spirit, the downfall of this country” (PW, I, 160),ends:
I unpartaking of the evil thing,
With daily prayer and daily toil
Soliciting for food my scanty soil,
Have wail’d my country with a loud...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 424–428.
Published: 01 December 1948
... to be
basically identical : “0God : have mercy upon us.”
1 The text followed herein is that of the 1662 (fifth) edition of the Book of
Common Prayer, which is still officially in use, and which had undergone rela-
tively minor changes from the first edition (1549) through the second (1552...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 404–416.
Published: 01 December 1950
... by fixing the thoughts upon a new mys-
tery every time a new decade is begun. A string of one hundred and
sixty-five beads divided into fifteen sets (each having ten small and
one large bead) is used to assist the memory in the recitation of these
prayers. A chaplet of five decades, exactly one...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 251–254.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., it is a conse-
quence of my own critical predilections, but I think that it is to The Acoustic
World that one will want to return.
David Lindley, University of Leeds
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By
Ramie Targoff. Chicago...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 254–258.
Published: 01 June 2002
... to return.
David Lindley, University of Leeds
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By
Ramie Targoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xiii + 162 pp.
Common Prayer shares with such studies as John N. Wall’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 263–266.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., it is a conse-
quence of my own critical predilections, but I think that it is to The Acoustic
World that one will want to return.
David Lindley, University of Leeds
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By
Ramie Targoff. Chicago...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 266–269.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., it is a conse-
quence of my own critical predilections, but I think that it is to The Acoustic
World that one will want to return.
David Lindley, University of Leeds
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By
Ramie Targoff. Chicago...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 269–273.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., it is a conse-
quence of my own critical predilections, but I think that it is to The Acoustic
World that one will want to return.
David Lindley, University of Leeds
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By
Ramie Targoff. Chicago...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 273–276.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., it is a conse-
quence of my own critical predilections, but I think that it is to The Acoustic
World that one will want to return.
David Lindley, University of Leeds
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By
Ramie Targoff. Chicago...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 342–361.
Published: 01 December 1988
....
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The appearance of Mary culminates the series of references to
her: “The prayer of the bone on the beach, the unprayable / Prayer
at the calamitous annunciation” (DS, 11), “the undeniable / Clam-
our of the bell of the last annunciation,” “the hardly, barely pray-
able / Prayer...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 342–361.
Published: 01 December 1988
....
(DS, w
The appearance of Mary culminates the series of references to
her: “The prayer of the bone on the beach, the unprayable / Prayer
at the calamitous annunciation” (DS, 11), “the undeniable / Clam-
our of the bell of the last annunciation,” “the hardly, barely pray-
able / Prayer...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 288–289.
Published: 01 September 1959
... conscience. Thus many of the prayers are penitential exercises, comparable
to those printed in the Book of Common Prayer as part of the service for the
administration of the Lord‘s Supper. This type of prayer characteristically
embodies a confession of having sinned, an expression of sorrow...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 156–171.
Published: 01 June 1972
... spiritual achievements.
The successful resolution of the conflicts between the poet and Irish
society in “Prayer” prepares one for arid intensifies the triumph of the
volume’s concluding poem, “To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Bally-
lee” (p. 406). This brief poem begins with an assertion...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 196–199.
Published: 01 June 1981
... discussions of its nature: poetry is prayer; it is the heart’s
response to the Deity. Keble does not shirk the consequences of this view: pa-
198 REV I E MIS
gan, non-Christian, and even atheistic poems become true poetry only to the
extent...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 461–480.
Published: 01 December 2022
... description Few novelists inspire as fervent a dedication to their writings as Jane Austen, but it may be that she is the only one who is regularly enlisted in the practices of daily devotion. Consider the help on offer in Rachel Dodge’s ( 2018 ) Praying with Jane: Thirty-One Days through the Prayers...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 315–327.
Published: 01 December 1980
...
each play with a prayer that sums up what has happened in the earlier
plays and then singles out some difficulty in man’s situation left unre-
5 “The Effect of Ty ology,” p. 806; but essentially the same conclusion appeared fifteen
years later in TheEnglis!Mslely Plays, p. 148.
320...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 June 1972
... Vetius,” Lucretius uses the language of prayer. Hut this is
prayer with a difference, for we are spectators at a religious ceremony
that challenges the imaginative adequacy of religion. Lucretius turns
the traditional motive of thanksgiving into an accusation-“1s this thy
vengeance, holy Venus...
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