The Monthly Magazine, Volume 26

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Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1808
 

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Page 115 - His witches are distinguished from the witches of Middleton by essential differences. These are creatures to whom man or woman, plotting some dire mischief, might resort for occasional consultation.
Page 352 - Good roads and canals will shorten distances ; facilitate commercial and personal intercourse; and unite, by a still more intimate community of interests, the most remote quarters of the United States. No other single operation within the power of government can more effectually tend to strengthen and perpetuate that union, which secures external independence, domestic peace, and internal liberty.
Page 122 - I might steale them from him; and hee to doe himselfe right, hath since published them in his owne name; but as I must acknowledge my lines not worthy his patronage, under whom he hath publisht them, so the Author I know much offended with M.
Page 114 - What ! fear you not the fury of your king ? — But, hapless Edward, thou art fondly led : They pass...
Page 94 - Child of the Sun, refulgent SUMMER comes, In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth : He comes attended by the sultry Hours, And ever-fanning breezes, on his way: While, from his ardent look, the turning Spring Averts her blushful face; and earth, and skies, All-smiling, to his hot dominion leaves.
Page 367 - AH, Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but those rich domains, That the first wealthy pope received of thee.
Page 115 - Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent. They are foul anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations.
Page 114 - Two kings in England cannot reign at once. But stay awhile, let me be king till night, That I may gaze upon this glittering crown ; So shall my eyes receive their last content, My head, the latest honour due to it, And jointly both yield up their wished right.
Page 352 - The inconveniences, complaints, and perhaps dangers, which may result from a vast extent of territory, can no otherwise be radically removed, or prevented, than by opening speedy and easy communications through all its parts. Good roads and canals, will shorten distances, facilitate commercial and personal intercourse, and unite by a still more intimate community of interests, the most remote quarters of the United States.
Page 115 - The names and some of the properties which the other author has given to his hags excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot coexist with mirth. But, in a lesser degree, the witches of Middleton are fine creations. Their power, too, is, in some measure, over the mind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, " like a thick scurf

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