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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (3): 372–374.
Published: 01 September 1943
... The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech. By JOSEPH SAR- GENT HALL. New York: King’s Crown Press (a branch of th*e Columbia University Press), 1942. Pp. 110. $2.00. Here is the report of a piece of field work which in nature, though not in scope and value, is comparable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (3): 370–372.
Published: 01 September 1943
... of sources. J. H. E. SLATER University of Washington The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech. By JOSEPH SAR- GENT HALL. New York: King’s Crown Press (a branch of th*e Columbia University Press), 1942. Pp. 110. $2.00. Here...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (1): 51–64.
Published: 01 March 1983
... pre-Protestant John Huss: the Council of Constance “burnt the true voice of him out of this world; choked it in smoke and fire. That was not well done!” (p. 133). Here Carlyle’s way of partly rescuing his reverie pattern is to imply a contrast between the pure fire of inspiration and the smoky...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 September 1942
... of Great Smoky Mountain Speech. New York: King’s Crown Press (a branch of the Co- lumbia University Press), 1942. Pp. vi + 110. $2.00. Odell, George C. D. Annals of the New York Stage, Vol. XIII: 1885-1888. New York : Columbia University Press, 1942. Pp. xviii + 723, illus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 243–258.
Published: 01 September 1964
.... And he pat wilnes of this werke to wete any forthire, Full freschely and faste, for here a fitt ends. (215-17) Whether the poet was a court man or an outsider does not matter; he knowingly commits a conspicuous, even boorish, blunder. To be “smoky” and “drinky” may suit a convivial...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 508–522.
Published: 01 December 1969
... the Negro and his relationship with the white world. AS in King’s poem, the Negro is immediately and harshly rebuked: “Stand off, and let me take the aire, / Why should the smoak pursue the faire?” Whereas Herbert’s maid logically connected her own smoky complex- ion with the fire of love within...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 337–351.
Published: 01 December 1982
... no more altars, Nor suffer any- ABEL[.ising]. Cain! what meanest thou? CAIN. To cast down yon vile flatt’rer of the clouds, The smoky harbinger of thy dull prayers- Thine altar, with its blood of lambs and kids, Which fed on milk...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 1957
... clings mortally to mine. In the next she is “shadow-like” and “wavering pale,” and in XXIV a “cruel lovely pallor” surrounds her footsteps. Sunset preceding a dinner party is a “smoky torch-flame” in XXXVII, while in XL selfishness is imaged as “lightless seas.” The disastrous evening...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (2): 198–219.
Published: 01 June 1949
... 313 sun of deep golden, flashing rays to awaken green colors and bronze-brown reflections on the dark mass of foliage. Above, over the restless treetops, the clouds chased somberly across the smoky red sky and on their flight lost tatters of cloud, small, narrow ribbons...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (4): 443–476.
Published: 01 December 2005
... impossible for a father and his family to be as fond of each other on a bright day in the Tuile- ries, or at Versailles, with music and dancing, and fresh air, as they would be in a back parlour, by a smoky hearth. (51) Hubback’s adaptation of silver-fork fiction’s role in redefining...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 287–358.
Published: 01 June 2000
...- right: Charles Edward’s kingly claims are based not only on a run of famous ancestors (displayed at the palace in the form of smoky and somewhat unconvincing oil paintings) but also on the largely hidden support of Donald Bean Lean and his kind. Charles...