/library/oar/handle/123456789/40261 2025-12-25T09:46:28Z 2025-12-25T09:46:28Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/38187 2019-04-12T07:11:58Z 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: On re-reading Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' Abstract: To re-read Shakespeare is like returning to a great city and discovering afresh the splendor of its palaces and art. It matters not that other big cities have been visited in the interval; the new beauties only serve to confirm the supremacy of the old. Even Time does not damage its fame for it more than holds its own against the higher standards that come with. the years .. Whether judged in respect of craftsmanship or of poetry or of drama or of characterization Romeo and Juliet Ieaves an impressive sense of achievement which is thrown into bolder relief by the knowledge that it was one of Shakespeare's early plays -though not his first, as Hazlitt would have us believe! Indeed, its early date cannot escape the perception of a reader who is familiar with other plays of Shakespeare, especially those which.have certain features of style in common with it,. One of the pleasures of re-reading Shakespeare, in fact, is to arrive at some estimate of the chronology of his plays through similarities and dissimilarities in their style. Description: Donald Sultana Collection.

1957-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/38186 2019-01-11T02:44:36Z 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The vowels of verbs with third weak radical Abstract: The first point that strikes the attention is that the first vowel in the perfect of many of these verbs long ago definitely established itself as e. Thus beda, beka, bena, feda, fela, ġera, ħeba, ħela, ħema, kera, lewa, mexa, nesa, għewa, qeda, qela, reħa. These words are all so written to- day as they are to be found already in the dictionaries of Caruana and Falzon. On the other hand, verbs whose third radical letter is għajn, have not attained the same stability. In the dictionaries just mentioned we find the spellings bala: ba:ta', ġama', naża', sama', tafa', :tara'.

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Title: Survey of United States catholic letters in the twentieth century Abstract: The year 1900 is merely an arbitrary date, and it is practically impossible for any outsider to evaluate American Catholic letters in the past half century without considering the historical and cultural background out of which they were born. It would be exalting mediocrity to contend that Catholic letters - at least until very recently - flourished in America with. any vigour or continuity. True, American Catholicism constitutes a minority culture in the midst of a vast society, predominantly secularized. But at the same time we are by far the largest single group in the United States. Out of a total population of 150 million, there are nearly 30 million' Catholics. Yet, as on looks back over the panorama of the history of letters in America, it is woefully apparent that our contributions to literature, at least in the past, have been for the most part very slight and very undistinguished.

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Title: The decay of the empire and fall of Rome in Saint Jerome's Letters and lives of the hermits Abstract: Although, before A.D. 410 nothing may have been further from Jerome's mind than the imminence, indeed the possibility, of the capture and fall of Rome, the Letters put before us facts and details which are a faithful echo of the growing,despondency and of the current pessimism concerning the fate of the Empire as a whole. The moral corruption which Jerome sees around him seems to be only, one aspect of the troubled state of affairs which, was weakening the fabric of the imperial edifice. There is nothing to dispel the atmosphere of imminent danger, and the thought of recent and continued failure at home and abroad hangs upon everybody's mind.

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