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    formed , at which the hero of the story first meets with the heroine : *—* This lie said , and began to make the offering ; while Theagenes took the torch from the hands of Chariclea . Sure , Knemon ,

    that the soul is a divine thing , and allied to the superior nature , we know by its operations and functions ; as soon as these two beheld each other , their souls , as if acquainted at first sight , pressed to meet their equals in worth and

    beauty ; at first they remained amazed and without motion ; at length , though slowly , Charielea gaye , and he received the torch ; so fixing their eyes on one another , as if they had been calling to remembrance where they had met

    before , then they smiled , but so stealingly , as it could hardly be perceived , but a little in their eyes , and as ashamed they hid away the motions of joy with blushes ; and again , when affection ( as I imagine ) had engaged their hearts , they grew pale . "—p . 109 .

    But what we chiefly wrote this article for , was to lay before the reader a most striking description of a witch raising the dead body of her own son , to ask it unlawful questions . The heroine , with her

    guardian , who are resting in a cave to which the hag has conducted thfem while benighted , become involuntary witnesses of the scene , which is painted with a vigour worthy of Spenser or Julio Romano . The old wretch .

    bent on her selfish and unhalllowed purposes , forcing the I body to ^ stknd upright , and Heaping about a pit and a fire iivitn a naked sword in her I hand and * blopdy ^ M j ftte-

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    sents 9 , rare j mage of withered and feeble wickedness , made mighty by will : — " Chariclea sat down in another corner of the cell , the moon then rising and lightening all without

    Calasiris fell into a fast sleep , being tired at once with age and tjtie long journey . Chariclea , kept awake with care , became spectator of a most horrid scene , though usual among those people . For

    the woman supposing herself to be alone , and not likely to be interrupted , nor so much as to be seen by any person , fell to her work . In the first place she digged a pit in the earth , and then made a Are

    on each side thereof ; placing the body of her son between the two plains ; then taking a pitcher from off a three-legged stool that stood by , she poured honey into the pit , milk out of a second , and so out

    of a third , as if she had been doing sacrifice . Then taking a piece of dough , formed into the likeness of a man , crowned with laurel and bdellium , she cast it into the pit .

    After this , snatching a sword that lay in the field , with more , than Bacchanal fury ( addressing herself to the moon in many strange terms ) she launched her arm , and

    with a branch of laurel bedewed with her blood , she besprinkled tlie fire : with many other prodi gious ceremonies . Then bowing Herself to the body of her son , whispering in his ear , she awakened him , and by the force of her charms , made him to stand upright Ctyaricle ^

    who had hitherto looked oh witji sufficient fear , was now astonished wherefore she walked Calasiris to be likewise spectatorof wMi wHS done . They stood unseen themselves , but p lainly ben&d , ^ tne light of the moon MA fire , where the business was performed : and by reason of the little distance ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/63/