MLN., Volume 19Johns Hopkins Press, 1904 - Electronic journals MLN pioneered the introduction of contemporary continental criticism into American scholarship. Critical studies in the modern languages--Italian, Hispanic, German, French--and recent work in comparative literature are the basis for articles and notes in MLN. Four single-language issues and one comparative literature issue are published each year. |
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Page 74 - “If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. “And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home.”
Page 116 - “Need we wonder that ever and anon we read in our journals of those ‘God's loveliest temples' turned to ruin, whom, ‘The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver But not the black arch, Or the deep, flowing river.' And who: ‘Mad from life's history Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled; Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world.'” The
Page 112 - at once and a temple, shall stand inviolate on the brow of the British Zion; as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the State, shall, like the proud keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers, as long as this
Page 165 - but he heightened his Characters (as I may probably imagine) from the examples of Corneille and some French Poets. In this Condition did this part of Poetry remain at His Majesties return. When growing bolder, as being now own'd by a publick Authority, he review'd his Siege of Rhodes and caus'd it
Page 112 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, he riseth from
Page 112 - frankpledge of this nation; the firm guarantees of each other's being and each other's rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order for every kind and every quality of property and of
Page 63 - to the Works of Shakespeare, giving references by topics to notable passages and significant expressions, brief histories of the plays; geographical names and historical incidents; mention of all characters and sketches of important ones, together with explanations of allusions and obscure and obsolete words and phrases.
Page 112 - structure shall oversee and guard the subjected land, so long the mounds and dykes of the low flat Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levelers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects the lords and commons of this realm, the triple cord which no man can break; the solemn sworn
Page 112 - of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects the lords and commons of this realm, the triple cord which no man can break; the solemn sworn
Page 165 - return. When growing bolder, as being now own'd by a publick Authority, he review'd his Siege of Rhodes and caus'd it to be acted as a just Drama. but as few men have the happiness to begin and finish any new project, so neither did he live to make his design perfect.