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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 356–358.
Published: 01 September 1945
... of Steele as a pamphleteer can be ex- plained only in part by the fact that his comedies and essays have overshadowed his other works. The truth is that in an age in which some of the best pens in England were devoted to political journalic3:m Steele does not rise above the general level...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 303–304.
Published: 01 December 1957
...Richmond P. Bond Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 A LETTER TO STEELE ON THE SPECTATOR By RICHMONDP. BOND Joseph Collet, after suffering bankruptcy, gained appointment as deputy governor of York Fort...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 72–80.
Published: 01 March 1949
...John Loftis Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 RICHARD STEELE, DRERY LANE. AXD THE TORIES By JOHN LOFTIS When King Charles I1 gave theatrical patents to Thomas KilIigrew and Sir William D’Avenant, he established a precedent which made...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 1977
...Albert Furtwangler Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 THE MAKING OF MR. SPECTATOR By ALBERTFURTWANGLER Addison and Steele had a very practical reason for creating the ficti- tious editors of their periodical works: canny self...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (3): 258–273.
Published: 01 September 1953
... of things there is ostensibly no basic difference between Prospero- Douglas (president of a steel trust) and Caliban-Yank. The law for Douglas is the law for Yank-the jungle law. Douglas is more effective than Yank in living by that law under altered conditions, that is all. O’Neill’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 269–270.
Published: 01 September 1960
... of Steele, Addison, and their known collaborators or were contributions sent in by unknown readers, they had the effect of knitting together the regular follow- ers of the two periodicals and supplied some of the most pointed comments on the manners and morals of contemporary Englishmen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 69–78.
Published: 01 March 1944
... series (No. 555, Dec. 6, 1712), Steele listed those who had made the most important contributions. The Persons to whom I am to make these Acknowledgments are Mr. Henry Martin, Mr. Pope, Mr. Hughs, Mr. Carey of New-College in Oxford, Mr. Tickell of Queen’s in the same University, Mr...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 270–271.
Published: 01 September 1960
... in Bond’s introduction. How did the letters get into the collections where they are now preserved? On what basis did Steele and his collaborators decide to reject them? What value have they to the student of the early eight- eenth-century periodical or the cultural history of the period...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 137–152.
Published: 01 June 1981
...Michael G. Ketcham Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 THE ARTS OF GESTURE THE SPECTATOR AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PHYSIOGNOMY, PAINTING, AND THE THEATER By MICHAELG. KETCHAM In Spectator No. 4, Richard Steele...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 355–356.
Published: 01 September 1945
... Univcrsity of bVashington Tracts and Pamphlets by Richard Stcele. Edited by RAE BLAN- CHARD. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1944. Pp. xvii + 663. $5.50. The comparative obscurity of Steele as a pamphleteer can be ex- plained only in part by the fact that his comedies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 June 1951
... hirelings who flung mud at Pope to help earn their keep. A Whig gentleman, with whom Steele at one time lived in great familiarity,2 Welsted would not have preferred the accusation unless he had been able in some fashion to believe in it himself. Somewhere there had lived a lady for whose death...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 487–488.
Published: 01 December 1947
... edition of his English translation of Kritik der Urtheilskraft, made the following note : This jest may have been taken from Steele’s play “The Funeral or Grief h la mode” (1702) where it occurs verbatim.3 11 am quoting the text as found in the first edition (Berlin and Libau, 1790...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 June 2008
... for its success is the play’s strong Whig position.4 The early November productions were timed to coincide with celebrations of the Glorious Revolution, and not only Rowe’s preface but various prologues make the point that, in the words of Richard Steele during the early 1720s, “Great William...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 330–344.
Published: 01 September 1970
... CONGKEVE’S FIRST RIOGRAPHEK “singularly inaccurate detail concerning Dryden and his family. These were communicated by “Corinna,” alias Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas. Part I1 also contains Incognita in full and a final tribute from Steele. Interlarded throughout are incidental remarks on Congreve’s life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 513–514.
Published: 01 December 1943
... the alleged virginity of Mrs. Bracegirdle to the 514 Reviews dramatic talents of Mr. Steele, whose Funeral, or Grief a Za Mode has just opened. On both questions, as on most others, the author is somewhat more than skeptical, and his determinedly witty carping becomes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (2): 151–161.
Published: 01 June 1980
..., in the mode established around the beginning of the century. The mode was set by Steele more than any other. In his campaign against Restoration comedy with its endless adulterous triangles, Steele had returned to the basic Terentian formula for comedy, in which a 2 Samuel Richardson, Printer...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (2): 285–301.
Published: 01 June 1965
... for compelling violence, “tran- quilly Titicaca” (pp. 256-57). In other poems, the process is less tranquil. In “The Agonized Spires” it is a problem of painfully making sense out of an urban explosion in which everything is tormented and flowing, caught in “thrusts of the sea / Waves of steel / from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 495–497.
Published: 01 December 1943
... of realistic portrayal of everyday life. Schmid began his career as importer of English drama by trans- lating four of Steele’s comedies, in his Steelem Lzcstspiele, and Crowne’s Sir Courtly Nice, as Sir Phantast; oder Es kann nicht seyn, both dated 1767. Each of the seven volumes of his important...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (4): 511–513.
Published: 01 December 1995
... delivers. And he never divulges how his “concern” and his “intention” will manifest them- selves rhetorically or how they will effect any sort of critical synthesis. The individual chapters-on Rochester, Oldham, Swift and Pope, Byron and Shelley, Burke, Addison and Steele, Richardson, Boswell...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 June 1941
...Helene Maxwell Hooker Brice Harris. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1940. Pp. 269. $3.00. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 326 Revkws too skillful to articulate “feeling” and “heart.” Indeed, Richard Steele in a Ta.tler paper of 1709...