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...T. Swann Harding Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 WHAT FRAME OF REFERENCE, PLEASE? T. SWANN HARDING NOT SO many years ago it was one of the functions of a good host skilfully to prevent arguments about religion and politics. If these dangerous topics were approached...

... Vision and Verse in William Blake. By Alicia Ostriker. Madison and Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Pp. x, 224. $6.00. If you write about Blake, Miss Ostriker warns us, you cannot expect to please everyone. If you write about metrics, you cannot expect to please anyone. And she may...

... Vision and Verse in William Blake. By Alicia Ostriker. Madison and Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Pp. x, 224. $6.00. If you write about Blake, Miss Ostriker warns us, you cannot expect to please everyone. If you write about metrics, you cannot expect to please anyone. And she may...

... UNIVERSITY W. T. LAPRADE Vision and Verse in William Blake. By Alicia Ostriker. Madison and Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Pp. x, 224. $6.00. If you write about Blake, Miss Ostriker warns us, you cannot expect to please everyone. If you write about metrics, you cannot expect to please...

...), which do now please me better than before, Pepys wrote: And here I sitting behind in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by mistake, not seeing me; but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not troubled at it at all. Imagine a Secretary of the Navy in our time being so ready...

... homosexualistical educationists. Lest it possibly be, you know, yids. Hey, please—there weren’t any queer words like this back when I was coming up. We had...

... failed to live in the reflected glory of the wartime president. Most of all, from Banks s point of view, he failed to achieve that greatness which his inordinate ambition demanded. Perhaps he did not need to fail. He was handsome, personally pleasing, well married, and could readily adjust his glowing...

..., a swatch of anecdotes and yarns told in his favorite region. Giving up any attempt to record dialect closely, he transcribes a group of oral stories that will please the general reader. He adds expert enough notes, reinforced by the more professional comments of Herbert Halpert, to give his book value...

... the torch; and ending with the delicate remark: I am not even sure that Dr. Curry would be pleased to be placed where I have placed him. The essays themselves embrace a considerable range in topic and importance, from the meter of Beowulf to the awakening of our first mother in Paradise Lost...

... pleased than offended when an occasional, and it may be acciden­ tal, rime appears in the epic or the drama. In Sohrab and Rustum, there are examples of consecutive lines riming: The high pavilion in the midst Was Rustum s, and his men lay camp d around. And Gudurz entered Rustum s tent and found...

... be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson s cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith s plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...

..., to depart from//eawe, permission (935-36); playes/please (394 95);5 way, manner/wey, weigh (111-12); and hyde, skin/hide, to cover (591-92). To be sure, some of the wordplay is commonplace (particularly the polyptoton) and concinnous, escorting the comic narrative 3 Cf. A Midsummer Night s Dream, II.i.192...

... their confinement perfectly formed, and armed with powers to disturb the peace of an emperor. (Animated Nature) This is good writing, a workmanlike prose dedicated to the simple end of informing and pleasing the reader. Such passages are representative. In looking through the Collected Works, one is struck...

... it. In truth I feel more like a gazelle which proves, for me at least, that an individual s opinion of himself is, to say the least, untrustworthy. I here­ by write it down as a delusion and a snare. . . . Please send me two copies of that memory stunt. Helen is with her mother in Portland . . . and I want her...

... and care drew a map of North America (published in 1755), which long held the field, serving, for example, as the basis for the boundaries set in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Exhaustive in research (with large use of manuscript materials) and pleasing in presentation, this is an admirable book, worthy...

...F. E. Bowman Language and the Pursuit of Truth . By Wilson John . Cambridge : The University Press , 1956 . Pp. 105 . $1.75 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 404 The South Atlantic Quarterly his book, however, he has said plenty that will please the scholar...

... was pleased to find Colonel Car­ ter s wife and daughter there and rather proud that the Governor opened the ball with a French dance with my wife, after which we danced country dances for an hour and the company was carried into another room where was a very fine collation of sweetmeats. The Governor...

... over the so-called Epilogue to the Satires, which Professor Keener discusses as if it were really only one poem instead of two, and those quite different from one another. Though generally pleasing (and profitable), as I say, Part 2 is it­ self not without sin: its free-and-easy Freudian explanations...

... roles as a transcendentalist, confidant of nature, and social critic. These two studies approach him through patterns he favored consciously and evince a respect for fact and patient gathering of de­ tail that would have pleased his sturdy soul. Thoreau as World Traveler is exhaustive, perhaps...

... about her own inner soul. Only rarely, as when she wonders whether she is being moved to abandon the writing of novels by a desire to please God or to please the man whose love she hoped for, does she see herself as the reader of her diary is likely to see her. Nor do her comments on her numerous...