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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (1): 76–77.
Published: 01 March 1958
...Claude E. Jones R. M. Wiles. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1957. Pp. xv + 391. $9.50. Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 76 Rm’ews comedy’s intent. At times she seems to give to the term disguise a wider and looser meaning than...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (1): 75–76.
Published: 01 March 1958
... College SerMl Publicutions in England Before 1750. By R. M. WILES. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1957. Pp. xv+391. $9.50. It is not often that a modern reviewer would, of choice, follow the pattern of the Monthly and the Critical reviews and develop his comments in one short...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (1): 77–81.
Published: 01 March 1958
... in the note on dates on pp. [xiiil-xv, and, in more detail, in Wiles’s “Dates in English Imprints, 1700-52,” in Library, fifth series, Volume XII, No. 3 (September, 1957), pp. 190-93. The shortcomings of this work lie in one or more of the following areas: the period after 1750 still needs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 15–26.
Published: 01 March 1978
... but becomes ensnarled rather in the wiles of unschooled yet shrewd peasants. Had Cellini terminated the narration with the ac- count of the Perseus and adequately emphasized that highest culmina- tion of his artistry, he would have composed his autobiography with a fully apologetic and explanatory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 510–512.
Published: 01 December 1947
... lebet 979; diu wile dchte im ein jhr 1094; diinken usually with acc. ; why getrziwest in line 1099 ; in view of solde, wolde, etc. (page xxx) why weZte 1254; note on 1306: the crossroads was unholy because the evil spirits were forced to gather here, the shape of the roads preventing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 March 1952
... deeds (e.g., the two marriages) as God acting through him. (7) Samson’s tragic reliance upon great strength (hence, by “implicit assumption,” his impotence of mind) is in keeping with the tradition, as is Milton’s insistence that Samson’s weakness rather than Dalila’s wiles brought...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 78–80.
Published: 01 March 1957
...., from MS. Harley 211 in the British Museum, with variants from thirteen other copies. Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1956. Pp. c + 134. Walker, Alice, and John Dover Wilson (editors). Othello. Cambridge: At the University Press, New Shakespeare Edition, 1957. Pp. lxix + 246. $3.00. Wiles...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 31–35.
Published: 01 March 1947
... have given rise to Jane Anger’s heated replies, we will perhaps be justified in concluding that Lyly’s book is the source of much of the material which so affronted Jane in that annoying lost pamphlet. Lyly is writing to celebrate the release of Euphues and Philautus from the wiles...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 489–493.
Published: 01 December 1966
... Press, 1966. 249 pp. $6.00. Bowra, C. M. Poetry C Politics, 1900-2960. The Wiles Lectures, given at the Queen’s University, Belfast, 1965. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1966. vii + 157 pp. $4.95. Carnegie Series in English-Number Nine. Six Satirists. Pittsburgh...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 506–510.
Published: 01 December 1947
... steenden (cf. also wol stgnde 511), but Gough reads wehen with B, yet A’s repetition of nztnne 109 was kept by Gough; why no comma [ !] in danne ein man der rehte lebet 979; diu wile dchte im ein jhr 1094; diinken usually with acc. ; why getrziwest in line 1099 ; in view of solde, wolde, etc...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 211–216.
Published: 01 June 1947
... nie mdder dehein/ in kumph bezzwn gebant,/ und eine segense, daz nie hand/ s8 guote gez6ch durch daz grad (he; welh gebzirkleindt daz was und brcihte im ein bile,/ daz in maneger wile/ gesmit s6 guotez nie kein smit,/ und eine hacken d6 mit./ eilz fuhspelz s6 guoter,/ den brciht er siner...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 311–320.
Published: 01 December 1988
...: Hider eft fundab on pysne middangeard mancynn secan on domdzge Dryhten sylfa, zlmihtig God, ond his englas mid, pzt he ponne wile deman, se ah domes geweald, anra gehwylcum swa he him zrur her on pyssum lznum...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 341–347.
Published: 01 December 1953
... epics. This certainly is not irrelevant to “things unat- tempted yet in prose or rime.” In Books 1 and 2 of Payadise Lost the words fraud, guile, wile, deceit, deceive, mislead, seduce, and others are very much in evi- dence, and this list reaches its climax in the speech of Beelzebub...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 21–27.
Published: 01 March 1956
.... She is handed over to the envoys with the warning that she will need all her wiles since Fiacre is “ung petit estrange.” With her mother and the vtzaistres, she sets out for the Count’s palace, confident of success. Satan sum- mons his devils to rejoice, for Fiacre now seems within his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 105–112.
Published: 01 March 1966
... Poetry. Edited by Charles L. Proudfit. Ann Arbor: George Wahr Publishing Co., 1965. 109 pp. $3.50. Weigel, John A. Lawrence Durrell. New York: Twayne Publishers, TEAS 29, 1965. 174 pp. $3.50. Wiles, R. M. Freshest Advices: Early Provincial Newspapers in England. Colum- bus: Ohio State...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 March 1946
..., in family conclave assembled, expatiate to the parents, friends, and retainers of his sweetheart on how he had been led astray by the wiles of an enchantress ? And what was Una doing all the while that her lover was so gravely recounting his experiences and carefully leaving out the main point...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (2): 187–195.
Published: 01 June 1945
... tempered the Oriental form to the Christian taste. Then a fresh introduction in harmony with the Penitence ending completed the transmutation of the cyn- ical Oriental tale, told in the Bahar-Danush to illustrate the brilliant wiles of the woman cooped up. Thus amended...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 391–422.
Published: 01 September 2004
... is not a Christian but a heathen, a strange conflation of pagan and Mus- lim attributes. Belacane’s people are “as black as night,” and Gahmuret feels “ill at ease” among them, although he chooses to remain (liute vinster sô diu naht / wârn alle die von Zazamanc: / bî den dûht in diu wîle lanc. / doch hiez er...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 1972
..., quite clearly by Uriel, less clearly by Michael. Satan’s de- ception of Uriel demonstrates that every being except God is subject to Satan’s wiles. And Uriel’s affirmation of curiosity (3.694) is therefore overshadowed by doubt, forcing us to interpret it in the strictest logical way: onZy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 177–191.
Published: 01 June 1967
... Byron, for Even Innocence itself has many a wile, And will not dare to trust itself with truth, And Love is taught hypocrisy from youth. (1.72) The narrator casually remarks that it was “at a masquerade” that nature...