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...George Walton Williams Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Petitionary Prayer in King Lear George Walton Williams The primary critical problem of King Lear has been shaped for readers by Dr. Johnson s heartfelt remark that he could not force himself to read the ending of the play...

... of such matters, one is glad to say, is on a higher level than that of some of his fellows some recent writers on Swift, say. Quinlan has actually read Johnson s fine sermons, pondered his prayers and religious meditations, and studied at least some of the writers on divinity whom Johnson read. (Though one wishes...

... proved as did Ernest Renan before him. The greatest architectural monuments move the sensitive observer of understanding intelligence to the depths of his soul even to prayer beautiful fervent prayer later made audible to the world. The last two generations have afforded perfect examples of this supreme...

... of the famous Continental Congress was opened with prayer. This state­ ment is slightly inaccurate, though not more so than many other supposed facts that we treasure among what Stephen Leacock calls the remains of our education, but it is evidently repeated very frequently, for it is remembered by many per­...

... wife, and an indis­ cretion now and then. When he played cards, he notes his losses and gains. He puts down with careful regularity a record of his prayers morning and evening, and mentions lapses when he forgot these devotions. He notes the food he ate and the medicine he took on the frequent...

.... Hemingway s Now I Lay Me is, I think, the closest of his stories to Gerontion in that it too suggests envy of Christians. Not only is its title the beginning of a prayer, its substance is also distinguished by the prayers of an unbeliever: But some nights I could not fish [in the imagination...

... of human uplift; hymns have risen in many choruses to the accompaniment of bursting shrapnel; hundreds at the voice of one priest have received absolution on the eve of battle; by common agreement the people of a nation have united in daily prayer as the hands of the dock point heaven­ ward at noon...

... writings, in particular, offer us a chance to see the man both in his public and in his private life, preaching in sermons and essays to his contemporaries and praying alone, and con­ fessing to his God. The great difference in tone between his Sermons and his Prayers and Meditations cannot be accounted...

...: University of Wisconsin Press, 1951. Pp. 284. $4.75. As its title suggests, this book is a survey of the literature of private prayer published in England during the sixteenth century. The author asserts quite rightly that this devotional literature has not received the 338 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... were among the many illustrious foreigners who sought out America s most famous preacher. Webster, Emerson, Whitman, Dana, Choate, Governor Andrews of Massachusetts, and others of America s great and near great succumbed to Taylor s in­ spired eloquence as it poured forth in sermons and prayers in his...

... attention it deserves. It constituted what seems to modern eyes an inordinate share of the books that issued from the presses of Tudor England. And it obviously bore a closer relation to the average religious mind than did the official books designed for public and common prayer. Presumably, therefore...

... of the political school in which the biographer believes so devotedly. All of this is but the specious pleading of an advocate, witty and attractive, no doubt, but neither serviceable nor true. A Hill Prayer and Other Poems, by Marian Warner Wildman (R. G. Badger, Boston), is a delightful little volume filled...

... Augustine); but what of the Prayer Book and Prayer Book worship (according to which the Christian year begins with Advent, not Trinity Sunday)? A dichotomistic poetic which speaks passingly of symbol and meaning behind it, of baroque ambiguity, the uncer­ tainty about whether one is dealing with life...

..., the question could not have been other than a burning one: What will Virginia do? That it felt the seriousness of the situation is indicated by the summing up of the events of the year in a local paper in which the record stands: January 4. Day of humiliation and prayer proclaimed by the President...

... Ash Wednesday and also to live every day as if at the verge of Easter. Part I closes with a fragment from the Hail Mary, the prayer repeated fifty times in each recitation of the Rosary; and in that devotion one may medi...

... nonviolence is but another name for the friendship we believe God has made possible and constitutes the alternative to the violence that grips our lives. I began by noting that I am not sure for what I should pray. But prayer...

...- tion par excellence. —Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death, and Time Among the most eloquent of Derrida’s tributes to his dead friends is his 1995 elegy for Levinas, “Adieu” (at once “goodbye” and a benediction, salutation, or prayer: à-Dieu).18 Derrida opens...

..., and Dickens, the summer parlors of Steven­ Escape Through Religion 379 son, Hawthorne, Motte-Fouque, Fogazzarofinally the con­ templation, prayer, an extasy of the oratory. But there will still be some who are not yet convinced. For it is manifest that the monastic principle has failed under all previous...

..., take in refugees in defiance of immigration laws. President Reagan, among many, has campaigned for the restoration of spoken prayer to the public schools, by constitutional amendment if necessary. God never should have been expelled from America s classrooms, the president declared in his 1983 State...

... is the belief that if something feels good, do it. Other people believe that secular humanism is simply the removal of God from school classrooms. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina seems to believe that secular humanism entered the public schools when voluntary prayer went out. In the introduction...