The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository / Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse
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Youth, accompanied by Virtue, and directed by Experience, approaching the Temple of happiness.
THE very flattering patronage with which this work, for two years, has been kindly favoured, demands the warmest acknowledgments of the Editors. Since its commencement, it has witnessed the demise of other periodical publications; some established long before it, others that have taken their rise at a later period; while the particular distinction honorably awarded the Weekly Magazine, has marked it an object of public favor, and denoted the estimation in which it has ever been considered; not as matter of exultation do the Editors make this remark; but it gives their friends stronger claims on their gratitude, and acts as a momentum to impel them to exertions which in some degree might enable them to merit such attention. Strongly impressed with a sense of their duties as conductors of a work so universally read, they have, with the utmost solicitude, guarded against the intrusion of any thing, in the smallest degree, injurious to the feelings of the religionist. Their selection has uniformly tended either to inform and enlighten the understanding, to inculcate the purest lessons of morality, or to unbend the mind with innocent levities. To effect those primary objects, they have studiously endeavored to make the work abound with curious investigations, elegant descriptions, historical narrations, biographical sketches, well-chosen tales, essays, anecdotes, observations, maxims, poetical effusions, &c. &c., all contributing in the highest degree to mend the heart, to improve the head, and to form the taste. In order more fully to designate the properties of this work in the title, it is intended to commence the third volume under that of the Sentimental and Literary Magazine; this alteration, we trust, will be universally acceptable. We shall only trespass on the patience of our friends to make one remark more; the cheapness of this work is unrivalled; let it be considered that advertisements and news are wholly excluded—the former, in a literary publication, has, in our eyes, a very unpleasant appearance, beside the room engrossed to the exclusion of more agreeable matter; the latter, from the very general circulation of daily newspapers, must be rendered wholly uninteresting. This, then, is devoted solely to literature—and the many entire works, which, in the last two years it has contained, amount, when separately purchased, to considerably more than the price of the magazines during that period—besides the immense number of anecdotes, essays, extracts, sketches, &c. &c. and the poetry, which, alone, comprises more than an eighth of the whole.
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THE
NEW-YORK WEEKLY MAGAZINE;
ADDRESS.
MORNING REFLECTIONS.
THE DEAD INFANT; or, the AGONIZING MOTHER.
SENTIMENTAL PERFUMERY.
CURIOUS PROPOSITION OF A DEBTOR TO HIS CREDITOR
MARRIED,
OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND VIRTUOUS.
PITY.
ON GOD’S PROVIDENCE IN THE FORMATION OF HIS CREATURES.
EFFECT OF MUSIC.
OBSERVATION.
A PRODIGY.
GREATNESS.
REFLECTIONS.
On JEALOUSY.
MARRIED,
LINES
FRAGMENT.
MAXIM.
ON THE THREE CORNERED HAT.
A SPEAKING STATUE.
OBSERVATION.
WONDERFUL ACCOUNT OF A MAN-FISH.
ON POLITENESS.
MOORISH GRATITUDE.
THE FORGETFUL MAN.
MARRIED,
EPITAPH,
THE MALL.
THE RECANTATION.
TO MATILDA.
ELEGY,
KNOWLEDGE.
CURIOUS ETYMOLOGY.
EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A SPANISH NOBLEMAN.
BEAUTIFUL ALLEGORY.
CURSORY THOUGHTS ON THE FICKLE GODDESS, SHEWING WITH WHAT INJUSTICE SHE GENERALLY DISPENSES HER FAVOURS.
ACTIVITY CONDUCIVE TO HAPPINESS.
Account of a WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE at SEA near fifty years ago.
OBSERVATION.
MARRIED.
TO ELIZA.
EJACULATION
TO AMANDA.
THE WISH.
THE THREAT.
MAXIM.
EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A SPANISH NOBLEMAN.
OBSERVATION.
ADVICE.
ALL MEN ARE SLAVES.
CURIOUS ANECDOTES Of THE DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS.
ON GEOGRAPHY.
ANECDOTE.
ON THE MUTABILITY OF FORTUNE.
MARRIED,
DIED,
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
ADVERSITY.
THE VELVET LARKSPUR AND THE EGLANTINE.
THE KISS. INSCRIBED TO OLYNDA.
The singular state of man when asleep.
STUDY.
ACCOUNT OF THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE CELEBRATED DR. JOHNSON.
THE FUNERAL—A FRAGMENT.
OBSERVATION.
STUDY OF NATURE.
REMARKABLE CURE OF A FEVER BY MUSIC.
APHORISM.
A FACT.
ANECDOTE.
CURIOUS LAW ANECDOTE.
MARRIED,
ON READING SOME ELEGIES.
ELEGY ON AN UNFORTUNATE VETERAN.
TWILIGHT.
CUPID STUNG.
REASON.
ON LANDSCAPE PAINTING.
ACCOUNT OF THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE CELEBRATED DR. JOHNSON.
A STRIKING SPECIMEN OF INDIAN ELOQUENCE,
THE WONDERFUL QUALITIES OF HOPE.
EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS OF SUDDEN JOY.
DEATH.
EXTRAORDINARY BEHAVIOUR OF TWO COMMANDERS, IN A SEA FIGHT BETWEEN THE FLEETS OF CÆSAR AND POMPEY, OFF CUBA.
MARRIED,
WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
TO AMYNTA.
THE CONFESSION.
AN ELEGY WRITTEN AT SEA.
REMARKS ON THE WONDERFUL CONSTRUCTION OF THE EAR.
THE ROAD TO RUIN. A MEDITATION.
ON SEGAR SMOAKING.
PRECEPTS OF CHILO, THE GRECIAN PHILOSOPHER.
ON TEMPERANCE.
ANECDOTES OF MEN OF EXTRAORDINARY STRENGTH.
ANECDOTE OF DR. JOHNSON.
UNACCOUNTABLE THIRST FOR FAME.
MARRIED,
ANTICIPATION.
THE SETTING SUN.
LINES ON THE CELEBRATED SHAKESPEARE.
TO ELIZA.
ON VICISSITUDE.
Rules for judging the beauties of painting, music, and poetry; founded on a new examination of the word thought, as applied to the fine arts.
ACTIVITY.
CONSCIENCE.
EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF JEALOUSY.
CHARACTER OF A RICH MAN.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE BOILING POINT OF WATER.
ACCOUNT OF A NEGRO-WOMAN WHO BECAME WHITE.
MARRIED,
MORNING DAWN.
LINES ON REVISITING A NATIVE PLACE.
THE HAPPY MAN.
ELIZA IN ANSWER TO * * * *.
EPITAPH.
AN EVENING MEDITATION.
CONTEMPLATION.
ON ENTHUSIASM OF CHARACTER.
BON MOT.
ANGER.
BENEVOLENCE.
HAPPINESS.
HUMAN LIFE.
MARRIED,
TO ———.
LINES
TO EMMA.
LINES
A PEEP INTO THE DEN OF IDLENESS.
CURIOUS SUPERSCRIPTION ON A LETTER.
LOCAL CURIOSITIES.
REMARK.
TACITURNITY.——AN APOLOGUE.
THE BEGGAR;
CURIOUS ANECDOTE OF MR. HANDEL.
ON IMAGINATION.
CHARACTER OF A POOR MAN.
GLEANINGS.
MARRIED,
TO EMMA.
ELEGY
EPIGRAM.
THE RISING MOON.
THE BATCHELOR’S WISH.
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE EFFECTS OF LOVE ON LIFE AND MANNERS.
AUTHENTICATED ETYMOLOGIES.
REMARKS ON MUSIC.
IMITATION.
CURIOUS HISTORICAL ANECDOTE.
ANECDOTE OF VOLTAIRE.
BEST MEANS OF ACQUIRING HAPPINESS.
MILITARY ANECDOTES.
MEANINGS OF THE WORD MAKE.
DETACHED THOUGHTS.
MISFORTUNE.
EXTRAORDINARY THIRST FOR FAME.
MARRIED,
LINES
PADDY’S REMARK ON A TREBLE RAP AT THE DOOR.
THE TRIBUNAL OF CONSCIENCE.
THE SHIELD OF SORROW.
EXTRACT FROM A ROYAL GRANT OF LAND IN CARNATA,
ANGER.
AUTHENTICATED ETYMOLOGIES.
JULIET.——A Story.
A RURAL PICTURE.
GLEANINGS.
REMARKS ON MUSIC.
MARRIED.
TO CLARA.
SONNET.
THE CAPTIVE’S COMPLAINT.
On Singularity of Manners.
SOCIETY.
REMARKS ON MUSIC.
FRIENDSHIP.
RUNNERS REMARKABLE FOR SWIFTNESS.
A FRAGMENT.
REMARK.
MARRIED,
MILITARY FAME.
REFLECTIONS IN A CHURCH-YARD.
ON MY BEARD.—a sonnet.
THE DOCTORS’ DUEL.
THE EXTENT OF LIFE’S VARIETY.
EPIGRAM.
REMARK.
PERFECT FRIENDSHIP.
GLEANINGS.
CHARACTER OF A GOOD MAN.
ANECDOTE.
MAXIMS.
MARRIED,
TO A YOUNG LADY,
THE REPARTEE.
TO EMMA.
SOLILOQUY TO LOVE.
REFLECTIONS ON THE HARMONY OF SENSIBILITY AND REASON.
REMARKS ON MUSIC.
THE RENCOUNTER.
FRAGMENTS OF EPICHARMUS.
ARABIAN MAXIMS.
METAMORPHOSIS OF CHARACTERS.
MORAL MAXIMS.
MARRIED,
LA FAYETTE——A SONG.
ELEGY
EPITAPH ON MR. W—— N——
A SENTIMENTAL FRAGMENT.
Wisdom and Virtue.
MORAL MAXIMS.
AUTHENTICATED ETYMOLOGIES.
MARIA; OR, THE SEDUCTION.
MILITARY ANECDOTE.
TO THE EDITOR.
To the Editor.
MARRIED,
CONTENTED IN THE VALE.
TO CLARA.
AN ESSAY ON PATIENCE.
PRIDE.
REMARKS ON MUSIC.
THE ROSE—A REFLECTION.
CURIOUS OBSERVATIONS.
THE FOLLY OF FREETHINKING:
MARRIED,
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
EVENING.—EXTEMPORE.
TO MISS A—— H——.
Epitaph on a Celebrated Coach-Maker.
ON A GOOD CONSCIENCE.
MATERNAL AFFECTION.
AN ESSAY ON HOPE.
CURIOUS OBSERVATIONS ON MAKING LOVE.
ARABIAN MAXIMS.
CONJUGAL AFFECTION.
MARRIED,
SONNET.
THE EVE OF HYMEN.
TO A VIOLET.
THE SNOW-DROP AND PRIMROSE.
AN APPEAL.
ON CONVERSATION.
MAXIM.
REMARKS ON MUSIC.
ON CONTENTMENT.
TASTE.
THE FIERY ORDEAL;
POWER.
ANECDOTE OF DR. GOLDSMITH.
FUGITIVE TRIFLES.
MARRIED,
THE BELLE’S INVOCATION TO WINTER.
THE COMPLAINT.
ADDRESS TO A FAVOURITE CANARY BIRD.
ON LAUGHING.
EXTRAVAGANCE AND AVARICE.
COMPASSION---AN ANECDOTE.
REMARK.
EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCES OF GRATITUDE.
ON IMAGINATION.
REMARK.
HUMANITY.
INSTANCE OF BENEVOLENCE.
RETROSPECTION.
MARRIED,
SONNET TO MARIA.
THE POOR MAN’S ADDRESS TO WINTER.
ODE TO BACCHUS.
THE GOOD HUSBAND.
THE GOOD WIFE.
ANECDOTE OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
SELF-LOVE.
ON HYPOCRISY.
NATURE.
VIRTUE REWARDED:
THE MISER AND PRODIGAL.
ANECDOTE OF CÆSARE ARETHUSI.
ADVICE.
ON THE ORIGIN OF LOVE.
POLITICS.
ANECDOTE.
MARRIED,
ANOTHER WINTRY PROSPECT.
THE SEASON OF DELIGHT,
SONNET
TO MARIA.
Extraordinary Intrepidity of the Jomsburgians.
COMMUNION WITH OUR OWN HEARTS.
INSTANCE OF UNCOMMON FRIENDSHIP.
HISTORY OF THE BEARD.
REFLECTION ON THE EARTH.
MILITARY ANECDOTE.
ANECDOTE OF MONS. DE SARTINE.
MARRIED,
ON THE DEATH OF A BABY NINE DAYS OLD.
ODE TO POESY.
MAN.
OBSERVATION.
PLEASURE.
CONVERSATION OF A FINE WOMAN.
PANEGYRIC ON MARRIAGE.
MARRIED,
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
VIRTUE AND ORNAMENT; AN ODE.
SPECIMENS OF SPEECH OR SPEAKINGS.
LIFE.
FRIENDSHIP.
NATURE.
AFFECTION.
MARRIED,
MORAL VERSES, ADDRESSED TO YOUTH.
AN EPIGRAM.
HAPPINESS.
THE STORY OF ALCANDER AND SEPTIMIUS.
EXTRAORDINARY RECOMPENCE ACCORDED TO MERIT.
SOCIETY.
MARRIED,
SONNET.
SONG.
ON LOSING A FRIEND.
SONNET.
EPITAPH.
THE NETTLE AND THE ROSE:
DISINTERESTED ACTION.
REMARKS.
CANDIDUS.
ANECDOTE.
NEW-YORK.
MARRIED,
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
WINTER; AN ODE.
DESPAIR.
ODE TO CONTEMPLATION.
Epigram on a false mistress.
ESSAY.
JUSTICE.
DEATH of a PHILOSOPHER.
ANECDOTE OF VOLTAIRE.
OSMIR.
SELECT REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION.
CANDIDUS.
INDUSTRY.
SINCERITY.
OBSERVATION.
MARRIED,
TO THE SETTING SUN.
THE ADIEU—TO A FAVOURITE GROVE.
SONNET.—TO THE MOON.
HUMANITY.
FAITH, PIETY, AND ACTIVE VIRTUE.
The HISTORY of Mrs. MORDAUNT.
ON PITY AND BENEVOLENCE.
REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.
A PLEASING REVERIE.
SATIRE.
MARRIED,
A CHARM FOR ENNUI.
ELEGY.
VERSES
ESSAYIST. No. II.
FELICITY EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED.
REASON.
The SCHOOL for LIBERTINES,
The HISTORY of Mrs. MORDAUNT.
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.
ORIGINAL OBSERVATION.
ANECDOTE.
MARRIED,
ELEGIAC SONNET.
AN ELEGY.
ODE TO REFLECTION.
THE PIEDMONTESE SHARPER.
ALMANZOR, THE ARABIAN.
ANECDOTE OF MR. FERGUSON.
The HISTORY of Mrs. MORDAUNT.
The SCHOOL for LIBERTINES,
THE TEMPLE OF HOPE,
EXTRACT.
ON WEALTH.
TRUE MEEKNESS.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
FRIENDSHIP.
TO A LADY,
ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
ODE TO HAPPINESS.
ESSAYIST. No. III.
ON AMBITION.
TRUE VIRTUE AND HONOUR.
REMARK.
The HISTORY of Mrs. MORDAUNT.
ANECDOTES.
A GRAMMATICAL EPISTLE
ANECDOTES.
GRACEFULNESS.
MARRIED,
ON INNOCENCE.
THE SEASONS OF SORROW.
SONNET TO PUBLIC VIRTUE.
PLEASURES OF OLD AGE.
WIT.
GRATITUDE.
ON THE GENIUS OF WOMEN.
The HISTORY of Mrs. MORDAUNT.
ESSAY on the Conduct of Men toward the FAIR SEX.
To Mr. MICHAEL DE MARIBUS,
OBSERVATION.
MARRIED,
SONNET TO ADVERSITY.
THE VISION:
HUMANITY’s POWER.
ASPIRATION
MAN’S DANGER AND SECURITY IN YOUTH.
DECEIT.
DUTY OF OLD AGE.
HAPPINESS.
Of the GENIUS of the ARABS.
The HISTORY of Mrs. MORDAUNT.
THE SCHOOL OF NATURE.
ANECDOTE.
OBSERVATION.
THE CHURCH YARD.
MARRIED,
SENSATION AND PERCEPTION.
LAVINIA.
A JEU D’ESPRIT.
The ART of HAPPINESS.
ANECDOTE.
THE PROVERBIALIST.
MISCELLANY.
MARRIED,
THE CHOICE.
ADDRESS TO PITY.
ARTFUL SENTIMENTAL-LOVER.
EFFECTS OF HONOURABLE LOVE.
LOVE OF JUSTICE.
CURIOSITY.
CURIOUS INCIDENT.
LIFE OF BONNA, THE SHEPERDESS.
THE FLOWER-GIRL.
MARRIED,
THE FADED ROSE.
GRATITUDE.
PLEASURES OF STUDY.
REMARK.
NEGLIGENCE
THE DUEL.
ON A LADY WHO DIED AT BRISTOL WELLS:
LIFE. A POEM.
SONG.—By Mrs. G——— C——.
THE FIRE SIDE.
To Miss S—— T———.
ESSAY ON MARRIAGE.
REFLECTIONS ON WAR.
ALI AND ORASMIN;
HOPE.
SLAVERY.
MARRIED,
A REBUS.
ON SEEING A LADY AT AN OPPOSITE WINDOW.
AN ADDRESS TO THE VOTARIES OF POESY.
ANACREONTIC.
TRUE GENUINE SENTIMENT.
RIDICULE.
To the Editors of the Weekly Magazine.
ANECDOTES.
ALI AND ORASMIN;
ON INDUSTRY.
MILITARY ANECDOTE
LEVITIES.
MARRIED,
PRAYER OF MR. WYNKOOP.
ELMINA; Or the Flower that never Fades.
AN ADDRESS TO THE VOTARIES OF POESY.
LOVE, HONOUR, AND TRUTH.
PROSPERITY.
ANECDOTES.
ORIGIN OF THE SPENCER.
A DIGRESSION.
MIRANDA.
Mrs. RADCLIFFE.
REFLECTIONS.
DUTY OF PARENTS TO THEIR CHILDREN.
PITY.
SOLUTION TO THE REBUS.
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER.
AN ADDRESS TO THE VOTARIES OF POESY.
EPIGRAM.
A FUGITIVE THOUGHT.
DISCONTENT.
THE BALM OF SORROW.
ANECDOTES.
MIRANDA.
ANECDOTE.
STANZAS,
ODE TO SPRING.
SONG.—By Maria Falconer.
CHEARFULNESS.
OBSERVATION.
ADDRESS of the TRANSLATOR
MISCELLANY.
ELINOR.
The ADVENTURES of ALPHONSO and MARINA;
THE CRIMINAL.
A RECEIPT FOR WRITING NOVELS.
SONNET.
TO A HOG—ON HIS BIRTH-DAY
ON MATRIMONY.
MAN OF PLEASURE.
ADDRESS of the TRANSLATOR
ON WEALTH.
ANECDOTE.
The ADVENTURES of ALPHONSO and MARINA;
STORY OF TWO CORDELIERS.
LOVE.
ANECDOTE.
VERSES,
SPLEEN.
ALWIN and RENA.
ON IMPRUDENT FRIENDSHIP.
WORLDLY GREATNESS AND HONOURS,
The ADVENTURES of ALPHONSO and MARINA;
HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF HUMANITY.
THE CRIMINAL.
SELECTED OBSERVATIONS of a LATE WORTHY DIVINE.
AN ACROSTIC.
LINES,
THE APPROACH OF SPRING.
THE AFRICAN’s COMPLAINT.
MIXED COMPANY.
ANECDOTE.
THE GENEROUS RIVAL.
NEW MAY.
LOVE.
LIFE.
AFFABILITY.
ANECDOTE.
COLLINS’s MONUMENT.
The HISTORY of ANTIOCHUS and STRATONICE.
THE CHOICE.
ON A HASTY MARRIAGE.
ON LITERARY PURSUITS.
A LETTER OF EXPOSTULATION TO A LADY ON HER MARRIAGE.
LEVITIES.
EPITAPH ON Mr. SCRIP.
FROM THE LATIN.
THOUGHTS AND MAXIMS.
AN EVENING MEDITATION.
ON MRS. MONTAGU.
INTENT OF RELIGION.
HOPE.
HUMILITY IN COMPANY.
MAN’S DANGER AND SECURITY IN YOUTH.
OBSERVATION.
REFLECTIONS ON SCANDAL.
CHARACTER OF LORD MOUNT-GARTH.
STANZAS TO HOPE.
ON SEEING A MISER AT A CONCERT.
THE CLOWN AND THE LAWYER.
SOCIAL EVENINGS.
SINGULAR CUSTOMS OF THE HINDOOS.
CHARACTER OF THE SWEDES,
THE POVERTY OF THE LEARNED.
A PRUDENT CHOICE.
A HYMN,
THE PROSTITUTE.
EPITAPH.
METHOD IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF IDEAS.
BEHAVIOUR.
EPIGRAM.
INTERESTING STORY OF MADELAINE.
TO THE LILIES OF THE VALLEY.
IRREGULAR STANZAS
ON A LATE CONNUBIAL RUPTURE.
GLEE.
SONNET.
DOMESTIC FELICITY.
COMPASSION.
THE STORM.
INTERESTING STORY OF MADELAINE.
IVAR AND MATILDA.
ANECDOTES and REMAINS
ODE TO TRAGEDY.
TO THE EVENING STAR.
SONNET ON EARLY IMPRESSIONS.
EPIGRAM
Of the KNOWLEDGE of the WORLD,
ANECDOTES and REMAINS
HENRY and LOUISA;
DETRACTION. A VISION.
ELEGY,
TO HEALTH.
EPIGRAM.
