The Modern Language Review, Volume 3John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson Modern Humanities Research Association, 1908 - Languages, Modern The Modern Language Review (MLR) is an interdisciplinary journal encompassing the following fields: English (including United States and the Commonwealth), French (including Francophone Africa and Canada), Germanic (including Dutch and Scandinavian), Hispanic (including Latin-American, Portuguese, and Catalan), Italian, Slavonic and East European Studies, and General Studies (including linguistics, comparative literature, and critical theory). |
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Page 248 - Have left us this our spirit and strength entire, Strongly to suffer and support our pains, That we may so suffice his vengeful ire, Or do him mightier service as his thralls By right of war, whate'er his business be, Here in the heart of Hell to work in fire,
Page 352 - dear father: how features are abroad, I am skill-less of : but, by my modesty (The jewel in my dower), I would not wish Any companion in the world but you ; Nor can imagination form a shape, Beside yourself, to like of: But
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Page 248 - Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ! Ah wherefore'( He deserved no such return From me whom he created what I was Upbraided none, nor was his service hard. In that bright eminence, and with his good
Page 246 - so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies ; the
Page 355 - But I beseech your grace (without offence— My conscience bids me ask) wherefore you have Commanded of me these most poisonous compounds, Which are the movers of a languishing death; But, though slow, deadly ? Queen. I wonder, doctor, Thou ask'st me such a question : Have I not been Thy pupil long ? Hast thou not learu'd me how To
Page 244 - I should be much for open war, / O Peers, / As not behind in hate, / if what was urged Main reason / to persuade immediate war / Did not dissuade me most, / and seem to cast / Ominous conjecture / on the whole success
Page 239 - soliloquy: Evil, // be thou my Good ; // by thee at least / Divided empire / with Heaven's King I hold, // By thee, // and more than half perhaps will reign ; // As Man ere long, // and this new World, // shall know
Page 253 - Him have anointed, whom ye now behold At my right hand. Your head I him appoint, And by myself have sworn to him shall bow All knees in Heaven, and shall confess him Lord
Page 356 - up higher; but there is No danger in what show of death it makes, More than the locking up the spirits a time, To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool'd With a most false effect; and I the truer So to be false with her. Queen. No further service, doctor, Until I send for thee. Cor. I humbly take my leave.