Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Volume 8; Volume 15Modern Language Association of America, 1900 - Philology, Modern Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography. |
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... Italian Sonnet in English . By E. E. SEVERY , lxxv 11. Some points of similarity between Hauff's Lichtenstein and Scott's Ivanhoe . By CLARENCE W. EASTMAN , lxxv 12. The English Gerund . By W. L. WEBER , lxxv . 13. The dialectal ...
... Italian Sonnet in English . By E. E. SEVERY , lxxv 11. Some points of similarity between Hauff's Lichtenstein and Scott's Ivanhoe . By CLARENCE W. EASTMAN , lxxv 12. The English Gerund . By W. L. WEBER , lxxv . 13. The dialectal ...
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... Italian , and Portuguese . The expression connoted obligation or necessity , as in Tertullian's quem habemus odisse ( Apologeticus 37 ) , whom we have to ( must ) hate . But the Romance tongues have gradually passed from the obligatory ...
... Italian , and Portuguese . The expression connoted obligation or necessity , as in Tertullian's quem habemus odisse ( Apologeticus 37 ) , whom we have to ( must ) hate . But the Romance tongues have gradually passed from the obligatory ...
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... Italians between tu and voi . It does not help matters to be told that a corresponding distinction once obtained in English between thou and you . It still seems unreasonable that any- one should have used thou to his wife and yet to ...
... Italians between tu and voi . It does not help matters to be told that a corresponding distinction once obtained in English between thou and you . It still seems unreasonable that any- one should have used thou to his wife and yet to ...
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... Italy . There Graelent is represented as a companion of Roland . Rois Karlemaines l'avoit en sa maisun Norri d'enfance , moult petit valleton ; Ne gisoit mais se en sa chambre non . Soz ciel n'a hom mielz vielant en son , Ne miex dist ...
... Italy . There Graelent is represented as a companion of Roland . Rois Karlemaines l'avoit en sa maisun Norri d'enfance , moult petit valleton ; Ne gisoit mais se en sa chambre non . Soz ciel n'a hom mielz vielant en son , Ne miex dist ...
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... Italian presses . " It was printed by the early English printers , Wynkyn de Worde and Copland . An old Swedish version was published in 1846 ( Samlingar utg . af Svenska Fornskrift - sällskapet , III ) . Cf. G. Paris , Rom . , XXVII ...
... Italian presses . " It was printed by the early English printers , Wynkyn de Worde and Copland . An old Swedish version was published in 1846 ( Samlingar utg . af Svenska Fornskrift - sällskapet , III ) . Cf. G. Paris , Rom . , XXVII ...
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