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Title: The astrologer of the nineteenth century
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Raphael, pseud., 1795-1832 Anglicus, Merlinus, junior, Gent
Subjects: Astrology Occultism
Publisher: London : Knight & Lacey
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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astonishment, ** If your ladywill not come to me, I will go and seek her in her closet. At lastshe resolved to go to him, but with all the marks of dismay anddeep despair. In a short time she returned to her company, bathed in tears, andhalf dead with dismay. She was able only to speak a few words totake leave of them, particularly the three ladies who were her friends,and to assure them she should never see them more. That instant she was seized with exquisite pains—all her beautywas gone—every feature of her face was changed, and she became aspectacle of horror. At the end of three days she died, in the ut-most agonies both of body and mind. Of this story (the duke gravely adds) the wise thought as theyought to think !—Suppose the story to be true ; suppose it be relatedjust as it occurred (and there is no shadow of reason to imagine thecontrary), all wise men ought to think, that God permitted an evilspirit to put an end to the life of an evil woman. 72 ILLUSTRATION, No. III.
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CIRCLE I.—SECT. II. OR THE UNHALLOWED SEPULCHRE;A Supernatural Romance, by Mr. Maturin. * The foundation of the extraordinary production on which thedrama of Valmondi is built, is as remarkable as the superstructureitself. A passage in one of Maturins Sermons runs thus : At this * A drama has been founded upon this tale, but our artist has eclipsed the scene-painter and property-man. The demon in the original tale is described as ascend-ing with his victim imperceptibly beyond the bounds of vision. No egress fromthe apartment could possibly have been effected ; yet When his associateshastened together to the apartment, it was empty—not a vestige of its last inha-bitant remained.—Ed. THE NECROMANCER. 73 moment is there one of us present, however we may have departedfrom the Lord, disobeyed his will, and disregarded his word,—isthere one of us who would, at this moment, accept all that mancould bestow, or earth afford, to resign the hope of his salvation ?There is not one—not

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