The Modern Language Review, Volume 15John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson Modern Humanities Research Association, 1920 - 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 20 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean ; but now are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Page 253 - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Page 257 - With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 245 - He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule ; and hyacinthin locks Round from his parted forelock, manly hung Clust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Page 247 - Unargued I obey ; so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Page 248 - Or nature fail'd in me, and left some part Not proof enough such object to sustain; Or, from my side subducting, took, perhaps, More than enough; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. For well I understand, in the prime end Of nature, her the...
Page 318 - The sunbeams are my shafts, with which I kill Deceit, that loves the night and fears the day; All men who do or even imagine ill Fly me, and from the glory of my ray Good minds and open actions take new might, Until diminished by the reign of night.
Page 259 - More miserable ! Both have sinn'd ; but thou Against God only, I against God and thee ; And to the place of judgment...
Page 245 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honour clad In naked Majestic seemd Lords of all, And worthie seemd, for in thir looks Divine The image of thir glorious Maker shon, Truth, Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't; Whence true autoritie in men...
Page 253 - Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known. Far be it, that I should write thee sin or blame, Or think thee unbefitting holiest place...