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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 Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters and a Sketch of ...

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...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...They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, " like a thick ecurf" over life. WILLIAM ROWLEY — THOMAS DECKER JOHN FORD, &C. The Witch of Edmonton. — Mother...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 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.' "* •Lamb's 'SpccimensofEnglishDramntici'ocls.' Vol. I. p. 187 London. ON MARSTON, CHAPMAN,...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare ...

Charles Lamb - 1854 - 572 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.] 1 Light-hearted. THE WITCH OF EDMONTON : A TRAGI-COMEDY, BY WILLIAM ROWLEY, THOMAS DECKER,...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 2

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...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...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, " like a thick scurf" over life. WILLIAM ROWLEY — THOMAS DECKER JOHN FORD, &C. The Witch of Edmonton. — Mother Sawyer,...
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The Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...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...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, "like a thick scurf" over life. WILLIAM ROWLEY — THOMAS DECKER- JOHN FORD, &C. . The Witch of Edmonton. — Mother Sawyer,...
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Rosamund Gray, Essays, Letters, and Poems

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 pages
...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...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, "like a thick scurf" over life. WILLIAM ROWLEY—THOMAS DECKER—JOHN FORD, ETC. The Witch of Edmonton.—Mother Sawyer,...
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Essays and Reviews, Volume 2

Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 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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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 626 pages
...the properties," as Lamb observes, " which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...creations. Their power, too, is, in some measure, over the ruind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life" Still another and lower...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 624 pages
...the properties," as Lamb observes, " which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot co-exist with mirth. But, in a lesser degree, the witehes of Middleton are fine creations. Their power, too, is, in some measure, over the mind. They...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 636 pages
...the properties," as Lamb observes, " which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot co-exist with mirth. But, in a lessor degree, the witehes of Middleton are fine creations. Their power, too, is, in some measure,...
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