MLN

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Johns Hopkins Press, 1916
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 370 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fairblazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 428 - to The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire!
Page 178 - Helen thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. The
Page 192 - “And many nations (we have heard) that had not gums and incense, obtained their requests with a leavened cake. It was no fault to approach their gods, by what means they could: and the most, though meanest, of things are made more precious, when they are dedicated to temples.” In
Page 9 - in curtesie show'd me the Castle, And called it RugeMount, at which name I started Because a Bard of Ireland told me once I should not live long after I saw Richmond. Buckingham. My Lord. King.
Page 353 - a time When no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame, But all for the joy of working, and each in his separate
Page 111 - kissing carrion,—Have you a daughter? Polonius: I have, my lord. Hamlet: Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter may conceive. Friend, look to't. Hamlet,
Page 179 - the second stanza: On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To time glory
Page 323 - almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But Parasites, or Subparasites. And, yet, I meane not those, that haue your bare townearte, To know, who's fit to feede ‘hem; haue no house, No family, no care, and therefore mould
Page 473 - Wommanes conseil broghte us first to wo, And made Adam fro Paradys to go, Ther as he was ful mery, and wel at ese. But for I noot, to whom it might displese, If I

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