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• Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Prayers -- History and criticism
• Bible. Old Testament -- Prayers -- History and criticism

• Gleanings from Paul, by Arthur Walkington Pink (Epub and Mobi formats at monergism.com)

• Biblical Prose Prayer, As a Window to the Popular Religion of Ancient Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), by Moshe Greenberg (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Lift Thine Eyes: Evening Prayers for Every Day of the Year (Farmington, PA: Bruderhof Foundation, c2002), by Christoph Blumhardt (PDF at tripod.com)
• A Method for Prayer (based on 1710 edition, with modernized spelling, glossary, and added prayers; c2013), by Matthew Henry, ed. by Steve Kindorf (multiple formats with commentary at mrmatthewhenry.com)
• For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening (Boston et al.: Pilgrim Press, c1910), by Walter Rauschenbusch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pagan Prayers, by Marah Ellis Ryan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Prayers of the Ages (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), ed. by C. S. Guild
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Prayers of the Social Awakening (Boston and Chicago: Pilgrim Press, c1910), by Walter Rauschenbusch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Common Prayer (1928 US edition, with commentary), by Episcopal Church (HTML and PDF files with commentary at anglican.org)
• The Book of Common Prayer (unofficial copy of the 1979 US Episcopal Church version), by Episcopal Church, ed. by John E. Goodwin (HTML at st-vidicon.net)
• A Method For Prayer: With Scripture Expressions, Proper to be Used Under Each Head; With Directions for Daily Communion With God; Showing How to Begin, How to Spend, and How to Close Every Day with God; To Which is Now Added A Discourse Concerning Meekness and Quietness of Spirit (Glasgow: D. McKenzie, 1834), by Matthew Henry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Pearl: Seven Hymns on the Faith, by Saint Ephraem Syrus, ed. by John Gwynn, trans. by J. B. Morris (multiple formats at CCEL)
• St. Anselm's Book of Meditations and Prayers (London: Burns and Oates, 1872), by Saint Anselm (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Book of Common Prayer, King James, Anno 1604, Commonly Called the Hampton Court Book (facsimile reprint of the 1604 edition published by R. Barker; London: W. Pickering, 1844), by Church of England (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations and Devotions of the Late Cardinal Newman (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by John Henry Newman, ed. by W. P. Neville (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• The Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions (Charleston: Printed by Evans and Cogswell, 1863), ed. by C. T. Quintard
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Negro Christianized: An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro-Servants in Christianity (1706), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• Directions and Prayers for the Use of the Patients in the Foul Wards of the Hospital in Southwark: Founded at the Sole Costs and Charges of Thomas Guy Esq. (1734), by Guy's Hospital (page images at NIH)
• The Booke of Common Praier Noted (London, 1550), by Church of England and John Merbecke (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)
• The Book of Common Prayer (1662 edition), by Church of England (HTML at eskimo.com)

• The Army and Navy Prayer Book (Richmond: C. H. Wynne, 1864), by Diocean Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • without title page: page images at HathiTrust
• The Army and Navy Prayer Book (Richmond: C. H. Wynne, 1865), by Diocean Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions (Charleston: Printed by Evans and Cogswell, 1863), ed. by C. T. Quintard
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Prayer and Praying Men, by Edward M. Bounds (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Talking With My Father: Jesus Teaches on Prayer (1997), by Ray C. Stedman (HTML at raystedman.org)
• The Reality of Prayer, by Edward M. Bounds (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The People's Family Prayer Book (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., ca. 1889), by Joseph Parker
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Prayers For the Use of Families, Chiefly Selected from Various Authors, With a Preliminary Essay, Together with a Selection of Hymns, by Albert Barnes (page images at MOA)
• How to Make Your House a Home: Family Liturgy and Religious Practices, by Bernward Stokes (HTML at EWTN)

• The Passover Meal: A Ritual For Christian Homes (c1972), by Arleen McCarty Hynes (HTML at EWTN)

• Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D. at the Opening of The Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-First Congress, 1947-1949 (Washington: GPO, 1949), by Peter Marshall, contrib. by United States Senate (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

• The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.