...Eunice C. Hamilton Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Henry James s The Princess Casamassima and Ivan Turgenev s Virgin Soil Eunice C. Hamilton In the seventy-odd years since its publication, Henry James s The Princess Casamassima has received comparatively little criticism...

...Carolyn H. Smith The Virgin Mary in Paradise Regain d Carolyn H. Smith Comments on the Virgin Mary in Paradise Regain d have been few and brief, perhaps because out of the over 2,000 lines only about 100 concern her.1 Although minor, the characterization of Mary reveals much about Milton s...

... of the Tepeyac Hill, a few miles from Mexico City. On this hill on that day more than three centuries ago, the holy Virgin was seen by a credulous Indian, Juan Diego. This was the first time, legend declares, that she had set foot on the western con­ tinents. A sacred spring burst from the side of the hill...

..., which his restless mind never suc­ ceeded in reducing to order, and to find emotional repose in the superbly unified and simplified world of mediaeval Catholicism, presided over, not by the Father, not by the Son, but by the Virgin Mother of Jesus. Intellectually the profoundest of sceptics, mingling...

... as that of the thirteenth-century architects of Christendom. A modern scientifically skeptical Puritan Protestant from New England responded to the supreme appeal of Chartres cathedral with a Prayer to the Virgin, sublimely sincere and fervent. A French Catholic from the medieval church s stronghold of Brittany, re­...

... there a kind of mystical pantheism with the love of the Virgin as force, and Chartres Cathedral as society. Truth indeed may not exist, science avers it only to be a relation; but what men took for truth stares one everywhere in the eye and begs for sympathy. The architects of the twelfth and thirteenth...

... which assures us that we ‘‘as sorrowful’’ may be ‘‘yet always rejoicing During the Easter season, the Regina Coeli replaces the Hail Mary in the Angelus, declaiming, ‘‘Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mother Two more...

... of the Protection of the Virgin in Harbin. Religious Communities and Ethnic Identity 89 The ‘‘Appeal to All Ukrainians of the Far East published on September , on behalf of the committee, is evidence of the importance the building of their own church had for the Ukrainians...

... into the Japanese cruising ground, Melville expresses this intermingling of imagery and mood as it comes to him in the dreamy quietude and slow heaving swells of the sea: The long-drawn virgin vales; the mild-blue hillsides; as over these there steals the hush, the hum; you almost swear that play-wearied children...

... not an uniquely Christian article of faith. Regarding the Virgin Birth, the Commission (as reported) states that historical evidence is inconclusive, with perhaps an implied assumption that one can be a good Anglican, even if he suspends judgment on this point. Whether or not a belief in human parthenogeny...

... wrought on this eternal figure almost as though it had nothing else to say. All of this was the aesthetic Henry Adams, and it explains much of his mysticism, much of his adoration for the Middle Henry Adams 253 Ages, for the Virgin, for simplicity whether in twelfth cen­ tury France, in eighteenth...

... in September, 1591, she was met by Envy who tried in vain to block her path. Then six maidens escorted the Queen past a new lake, dug for the occasion, to a specially built summerhouse hung with arras. There Elizabeth listened to three virgins in a pinnace playing a Scottish jig on cornets. A mock battle fol­...

... immediately to improve them as they are women. His collection of books, he promised, would be such as shall not hurt a feature by the austerity of their reflections, nor cause one impertinent glance by the wanton­ ness of them. They shall all tend to advance the value of their innocence as virgins, improve...

... the future will make upon it. What are the material facts in the situation? 178 The South Atlantic Quarterly. In the first place there is no longer an undeveloped West to which our sons and daughters may go for virgin soil when the old farms fail to yield an increase. The old adage, Go West, young man...

... on board one of the ships in Her Majesty s service. Under the date of February 22, 1582, occurs an entry to the effect that the worthy parson went to the theatre to see a scurvy play set out all by one virgin, which there proved a fyemarten without voice, so that we stayed not the matter. 7...

... of the virgin long-leaf pine, which has melted away like a snow-man in the sun before the fortuneseekers axe. Only rarely is there to be found a tract of land, kept as a legacy by a careful parent, which has virgin pines upon it that have not been boxed. With the passing of this tree, the scarcity...

... of the film.1 Freely appropriated from Whitman, this shot opposes a virginal mother-figure (Lillian Gish) rocking a flower-filled, sunlit cradle to the figure of the three Fates in the left background; it thus emblematizes the eternal struggle of love against the forces of intol­ erance which the film...