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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 129.
Published: 01 March 1942
... Walter Cameron Kenneth. Raleigh, North Carolina: The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 132. $2.75. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 William Ne1s o 11 129 A icthorship and Sources of “Gentleness and Nobility,” A Study in Early...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 129.
Published: 01 March 1942
... Walter Cameron Kenneth. Raleigh, North Carolina: The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 65. $1.75. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 William Ne1s o 11 129 A icthorship and Sources of “Gentleness and Nobility,” A Study in Early...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 129.
Published: 01 March 1942
... Heywood John. (Originally edited with a Philosopher's Epilogue by Rastell John), the whole now re-edited from the Black-Letter Kenneth Walter Cameron Raleigh, North Carolina: The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 36. 75 cents Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 1942
...William Nelson Walter Cameron Kenneth. Raleigh, North Carolina: The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 46. $1.25. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 William Ne1s o 11 129 A icthorship and Sources of “Gentleness and Nobility,” A Study...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 September 1941
... Press, 1941. Vol. I, pp. v + 342; vol. 11, pp. 343-748. $12.50. Cameron, Kenneth Walter. Authorship and Sources of Gentleness and Nobility: A Study in Early Tudor Drama, Together with a Text of the Play based on the Black-Letter Original. Raleigh, N. C.: The Thistle Press, 1941...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (2): 115–135.
Published: 01 June 1983
... first as a numinous presence and is then seen as a thistle, which in its inner reality is a gray old man, standing in his path. Blake de- stroys the thistle and in doing so destroys the power which the image of his father still exerts over him. As a result, a supreme awareness of confidence...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 325–326.
Published: 01 June 1942
...Harry H. Burns Kenneth Walter Cameron. Raleigh, N. C.: The Thistle Press, 1941. pp. 144. $3.50. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 James Gordon Emerson 325 tive factors. Yet, as antecedent probability, they could have pro...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 315–317.
Published: 01 September 1978
... on thistles as a result. G. B. TENNYSON University of Calfornia, Los Angeles The Writer’s Task from Nietrsche to Brecht. By HANSREISS. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1978. xiv + 221 pp. $19.50. It has been a favorite topos...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 317–319.
Published: 01 September 1978
... produced it” (p. 252). Quite. Carlyle was supposed to have led us into the wilderness and left us there. It now looks as though he had a large number of followers who decided that the wilderness was in fact the Promised Land, and we are all dining on thistles as a result...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 323–325.
Published: 01 June 1942
... that Professor Aly might profitably have quoted more extensively from Hamilton’s speeches. JAMES GORDONEMERSON Stanford University Ralph IValdo Emerson’s Reading. By KEXNETFIWALTER CAMERON. Raleigh, N. C. : The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 144...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 225–228.
Published: 01 September 1962
..., thistles, and other flowers against a gold background. Patricia M. Gathercole 227 Des cleres et nobles femmes (Boccaccio’s De claris mulieribus) * (1) MS 33 (Spencer Collection) at the New York Public Library. This copy, ninety-five folios on vellum (41 x...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 669–672.
Published: 01 December 1941
... bibliographical resources in New England. Raleigh, N. C. : The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 144. $3.50. Coan, Otis W., and Lillard, Richard G. America in Fiction. Stan- ford University Press, 1941. Pp. iii + 180. $1.50. Hart, James D. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. New...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 323–336.
Published: 01 December 1962
... or demonstrative; for all that, it is, occasionally, a potent force in the verse. And it is nearly always apt and assured; little of that uncertainty of tone noticeable in “A Grammarian’s Funeral” is to be found here. Consider this, for instance : If there pushed any ragged thistle-stalk...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 175–199.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of his poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, in an author’s note appended to the poem when it was rst published in See Hugh MacDiarmid, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, ed. Kenneth Buthlay (Edinburgh: Polygon, 16 “Neither can anyone learn English, one can only learn a series of Englishes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 601–607.
Published: 01 December 1941
... appeals from the ruined adherents of the Stuart cause, who were starving and scheming in the various continental cities. Some wanted peerages, others Garters and Thistles, many more asked for bread; and his business was prudently to dole out the alms which the narrow fortunes of his master...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 268–276.
Published: 01 September 1952
... the dialect term raises the question whether in this case (and, indeed, in some other instances also) the PaG word might not have been translated from the German rather than directly from English. Plant names including place names are the /kanada:dGdeZ/ “Canada thistle” and the well-known...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (2): 139–148.
Published: 01 June 1953
... and thistles shall it bring forth unto thee.” 144 Jeremy Taylor and the Fall of Man Dying. The worst consequence of the Fall, he thought, was the fact that man had been forced to remain in a state of nature, subject to its laws, and unable to reach the heavenly paradise by his own...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (4): 411–444.
Published: 01 December 1946
...? Kurt Lcwent 417 prets, another lady, the “Lady of the Thistles,” which is a senhnl for the Viscountess of Cardona, and the Infante. The latter is, in all probability, the Infante Peter, later King Peter I11 of Aragon ( 1276-85). The historical allusions in Cerveri’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 179–194.
Published: 01 June 1970
... characterization of the tailor as one who “Came in with the Curse; and is younger Brother unto Thorns, and Thistles, and Death”-a passage which goes. on to say that “if Adam had not fallen, he had never sat cross-leg and that “Sin and he [the tailor] are Partners” (p. 123). Clearly, in such references...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2024
... penetration of “the secret parts of us,” here rats play a role in the undoing that war’s arrival brings about: “A thistle thrust itself between the tiles in the larder. The swallows nested in the drawing-room; the floor was strewn with straw; the plaster fell in shovelfuls; rafters were laid bare; rats...