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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 380.
Published: 01 September 1944
.... This picture is done on a leaf of vellum pasted at the end of that book, no ways relating to it.28 This picture is at whole length, about six or seven inches in height, with his right hand holding the penknife, and his left the beads. In a marginal note Vertue adds,2g from which the figure...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 161–164.
Published: 01 March 1942
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 331–346.
Published: 01 December 1981
...Michael J. B. Allen Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 JAQUES AGAINST THE SEVEN AGES OF THE PROCLAN MAN By MICHAELJ. B. ALLEN Kichard Knowles’s New Variorum edition of As You Like It stands...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 188–189.
Published: 01 June 1972
... of Michigan Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style. Hy ANNABELM. PATTERSON.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. xv + 240 pp. $10.00. ‘l‘his is an ambitious book that by 110 means manages to substantiate the claims which it makes. Annabel Patterson argues...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 243–259.
Published: 01 September 1966
...James Jensen Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY By JAMES JENSEN The influence of William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity has been as enormous...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (3): 307.
Published: 01 September 1961
...Frank W. Jones Leo Max Kaiser. Hartford, Conn.: The Emerson Society, 1960. Pp. 30. Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 REVIEWS Thoreau’s Translation of “The Seven against Thebes” (1843). Edited by LEO MAXKAISER. Hartford, Conn...
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Published: 01 December 2015
Figure 2. The conclusion of “seven Sonnets in a Sequence,” with numbering that drops out in the final two poems, A Hundreth sundrie Flowres , sigs. 2X1v–2X2r. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. More
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Alexander Pettit Abstract During an eleven-year period that began in 1913 with the composition of his first play, Eugene O’Neill repeatedly experimented with New Comic forms. His seven “metacomedies” from this period—most focally Bread and Butter , “Anna Christie,” and Desire under the Elms —render...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 386–388.
Published: 01 December 1987
...: Clarendon Press, 1986. ix + 211 pp. $39.95. Jaques’s speech on the “seven ages” of man in As You Like It (1I.vii. 138-65) would likely be the most famous example of the ancient topos of “the ages of man” for the common reader. “Topos” is, perhaps, not precisely the correct word, for, as J...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 99–105.
Published: 01 March 1968
... or with the “contemplation and execution of great and sublime projects” (p. 59). Of particular interest is Tuve’s account of the interrelationships among the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven beatitudes, the seven petitions of the Pater Noster, and the seven corporeal works of mercy, as well...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 142–148.
Published: 01 June 1955
... Livia, twinkletoes. And sure he was the queer old buntz too, Dear Dirty Dumpling, foostherfather of fingalls and dotthergills. Gammer and gaffer we’re all their gangsters. Hadn’t he seven dams to wive him? And every dam had her seven crutches. And every crutch its seven hues. And each hue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 298–307.
Published: 01 September 1970
... mean simply that if Chaucer’s height were divided into six parts, his shadow would extend a distance of eleven such parts. Again, the numerals carry the theme of the penulti- mate. In medieval art, the mystical numbers seven and twelve signify, respectively, temporality and eternity. Seven...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 June 1941
...Edward F. Hauch By Ralph Stokes Collins. Doctor's dissertation, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1940. Pp. v + 135. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 334 R~o2‘cws gunient, namely, that the seven subsidiary stories of the Sinngedicht 2re not strung...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 21–33.
Published: 01 March 1946
....” Nevertheless, the metrical structure is definitely uniform. We find much greater variety in the English ballads. The primitive form was, probably, the riming couplet, composed of seven-stress, iambic lines (fourteen syllables), with regular cesural pause after the fourth foot. This septenary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 June 1941
... within wheels to illustrate her chief ar- 334 R~o2‘cws gunient, namely, that the seven subsidiary stories of the Sinngedicht 2re not strung together in rosary fashion but form a unified, organic structure. An outer circle represents the progress in the relationship...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (4): 479–494.
Published: 01 December 1945
... Holmes Wiffen, seven ballads translated at various times; to be found in the Preface of The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega and in Foreign Review, 1828. 1824 George Moir, four translations; in Early Narrative and Lyri- cal Poetry of Spain, Edinburgh Review, 1824. 1824 George Henry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 134–136.
Published: 01 June 1951
... for the private stages and the queen’s solace during the ’sixties and ’seventies, none is more important than Sebastian West- cott. . . . Of his plays that won the honor of court performance we have the titles of seven. . . . (p. 456) And in the rather shorter section dealing with Richard...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 94–98.
Published: 01 March 1968
... of selection is the tradition dividing human history into seven “ages.” The Golden Legend lists the first six as from Adam to Noah, from Noah to Abraham, from Abraham to Moses, from Moses to David, from David to Christ, and from Christ to Doomsday. If David is considered primarily in his role...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 475–479.
Published: 01 December 1940
..., and an Ape in the bed. . . . But while there is an undoubted resemblance in phraseology between the two passages there is also a significant difference in spirit. Every one of the seven epithets which Iago utters is slan- derous, while each of the four parts which the author of The Arte...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (4): 495–496.
Published: 01 December 1945
... of an introduction treating scope and method, a list of documents used, a bibliography, a list of text references, the main body of the work in seven chapters according to the order of the seven classes of strong verbs, a list of ablaut patterns, a section on general characteristics and trends, ap...