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" 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... "
The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register - Page 115
1808
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The Works of Thomas Middleton, Now First Collected, Volume 3

Thomas Middleton, Alexander Dyce - 1840 - 692 pages
...The names and some of the properties which Middleton has given to his Hags excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life." Spec, of Engl. Dram. Poets, p. 174. SCENE III. An Apartment in the House of the Lord Governor....
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The works of Thomas Middleton, collected, with some account of the ..., Volume 3

Thomas Middleton - 1840 - 660 pages
...The names and some of the properties which Middleton has given to his Hags excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life." Spec. of Engl. Dram. Poets, p. 174. SCENE III. An Apartment in the House of the Lord Governor,...
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The Works of Thomas Middleton, Now First Collected, Volume 3

Thomas Middleton, Alexander Dyce - 1840 - 688 pages
...The names and some of the properties which Middleton has given to his Hags excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life." Spec, of Engl. Dram. Poets, p. 174. An Apartment in the House of the Lord Governor. Enter...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1844 - 330 pages
...names, and some of the properties, which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life.} THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. A TRAGI-COMEDY. BY WILLIAM ROWLEY, THOMAS DECEER, JOHN FORD, &c....
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ...

George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pages
...the properties," as Lamb observes, " which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life." Still another and lower speeies of witch — " the plain, traditional, old woman witch,...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare ...

Charles Lamb - 1845 - 492 pages
...names, and some of the properties, which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...power too is, in some measure, over the mind. They wise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life.] * Light-hearted. THE WITCH OF EDMONTON...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot co-cxist with mirth. But, in a lesser degree, the Witches of...creations. Their power too is, in some measure, over the tnind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thich scurf o'er life." JULIUS C^SAR. JULIUS C.ESAR...
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The North American Review, Volume 63

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 pages
...Their names, and some of the properties which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The weird sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life." — Lamb, Vol. i., p. 163. The plays of Middleton are not, in general, up to the level...
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The North American Review, Volume 63

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 pages
...Their names, and some of the properties which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The weird sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life.'''1 — Lamb, Vol. i., p. 163 The plays of Middleton are not, in general, up to the level...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1849 - 238 pages
...properties which Middleton has given to his Hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious tilings. Their presence cannot co-exist with mirth. But in...raise jars, jealousies, strifes; like a thick scurf o'er life.'"* * Lamb's ' Specimens of English Dramatic Poets,' Vol. I. p. 187 Moxon, London. LECTURE...
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