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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 79–88.
Published: 01 March 1944
...Hoyt Trowbridge Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 POPE, GAY, AND THE SHEPHERD’S WEEK By HOYTTROWBRIDGE I The Shepherd’s Week, John Gay’s cycle of pastoral eclogues, was published on April 15, 1714.l...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 297–306.
Published: 01 June 1942
... wrote to a friend in July, 1873: “TWOof the wildest of your countrymen-Joachim [sit] Miller and Mark Twain-dine with me at my club next week” (Michael Sadleir, Trollope : A Comntentary, Lon- don, 1927, p. 2 For Mark Twain’s account of the dinner see Mark Twain i,i Lriiption, etl. Bernard L)c...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 174–193.
Published: 01 June 1947
...’ Medea, Livy, and the Persae of Aeschylus. Lit- tle attention, it must be observed, was paid to Greek tragedy. At Eton two weeks a year were devoted exclusively to the study of Greek plays, and in addition boys in the sixth and upper fifth forms spent two hours each week...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 187–189.
Published: 01 June 1954
... ddmanna) ; p. 75, “back them up” for “follow their lead” (fylgem )eim at) ; p. 82, “240” for “200” (cf. p. 147, n. 3) ; p. 90, “when six weeks of summer have passed” for “in six weeks” (at sex &kum). DROPLAUGARSONASAGA: p. 102, “with twelve men” must be a slip for “with eleven others” (ok...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 415–422.
Published: 01 December 1968
... Lkautaud to join him and his guests on Sunday, March 22, 1903, and again two weeks later, just three days before Leautaud resigned from the law firm.4 On both oc- casions Lbautaud had an opportunity to discuss Le Petit Ami with his hosts and with Gide, the comtesse de Noailles, and a number...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 195–207.
Published: 01 September 1960
... Slote 197 three weeks before contributed the last of three drama review the account of the book might very well have been read. In Scotland, he later recognized Nithsdale and Galloway as legendary regions ; and it was a Galloway song that he and Brown were trying to com...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (4): 363–371.
Published: 01 December 1952
... Finally, Twain’s recently published letters to his wife“ contain damning references that would be much more damaging than they are if they had been written by almost any one other than Twain. On January 18, 1885, more than ten weeks after the start of the joint tour, Twain entered...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 528–531.
Published: 01 December 1949
...?” “What is EstauniC‘s secret?” The Spiritual Exe~ci.resof Ignatius Loyola. Dr. Hok asserts (p. 7) that “a similarity between the Weeks and instructions for the Meditations, and the development and construction of EstauniC’s novels and short stories can be traced.” “Is it possible [she asks...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 476–478.
Published: 01 December 1968
..., one may include two modern essays: a fine ambitious piece on The Rainbow and Women in Love, by Mark Kinkead-Weekes, which charts the evolution of the novels and also studies their relation to Lawrence’s long essay on Hardy; and Louis Martz’s close study of the presentation of Miriam...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 499–501.
Published: 01 December 1940
... Weeks after Bottling-in Winter not till after a month.-4 The roguish tone of some of these directions should not blind the reader to the serious nature of the whole, for Coleridge really in- tended to use the recipe or he would not have gone to the trouble to copy it out and correct its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 1977
....9 And whether or not Swift guided Steele closely, he provided him with an enviable opening for the Tutler-including an enviable way out if it had failed. If it had circulated for just a week or two, the new periodical could have made its point about ephemeral newssheets, celebrated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 332–334.
Published: 01 June 1942
... records, he con- cludes that the population of London’s metropolitan area in 1605 was about 160,000, and that of this number only 21,000 went in a week to the theatre, or two in fifteen, as compared to the ten in fifteen in America who today go to the movies. On the basis of very...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 157–174.
Published: 01 June 2012
... and, despite its common designation, has never been formally accepted by any single world power or international agree- ment,10 the navigational need for such a line in reckoning the days of the week had been recognized in the fourteenth century by the French philosopher Nicholas Oresme (Bartky...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 243–259.
Published: 01 September 1966
... poetry, couldn’t you?” This was a Godsend to a Director of Studies, so I said, “You’d better go off and do it, hadn’t you?” A week later he said he was still slapping away at it on his typewriter. Would I mind if he just went on with that? Not a bit. The following week...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 85–87.
Published: 01 March 1978
... in the alphabet. He took it through the letter T before he died, and the momentum he had la- boriously built up carried it shortly thereafter to a triumphant conclusion. His was a true Victorian success story. Born on the Border in 1837 as the son of a twelve-shilling-a-week tailor, Murray...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 209–211.
Published: 01 June 1963
...- tains, must have been written in “the five-month period before the licensing date-December 5, 1579.” E. K.’s gloss, arguments, and epistle were probably composed “in the ten-week period before December 5,” while the woodcuts were “probably made in the three-week period before this date...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 168–181.
Published: 01 June 1954
... tris riches heures du Duc de Berry. Looking first at the subject matter of these two works, we may state that either artist delights from an aristocratic viewpoint in all the aspects of everyday life, not sporadically and selectively but systematically throughout the day, the week...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 48–52.
Published: 01 March 1970
... of at least another six weeks, and still no calf, Obadiah brings his complaint of the bull’s sterility to Mr. Shandy. But. may not a cow be barren? replied my father, turning to Doctor Slop. It never happens: said Dr. Slop . . . If the cow cannot be sterile, then the bull...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 331–354.
Published: 01 December 2001
... to the conclusion that he was a capable fellow. . . . Mr. Warburton made his elaborate preparations, set out on his expedition, and in three weeks returned. Meanwhile the mail had arrived. The first thing that struck his eyes when he entered his sitting...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 91–95.
Published: 01 March 1949
... and was put on duty instanter-And such duty! Why I have worked night and day and it appears there is more to do now than when I came. They only allow one steward to each Hospital, and it is an irksome office when such is the case. I am doing finely and in the course of a few weeks I...