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; leading articles with balanced paragraphs which recalled the marching tramp of

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's sentimentalities. It talked about 'the London Reviewers' with a kind of provincial deference. It printed articles with quite too much of the license of Swift and Prior for the Magazines of to-day. But it had opinions of its own, and would compare well enough with ''

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Publication history

Monthly Anthology v. 1
1804 (Boston: Munroe & Francis)
Monthly Anthology v. 2
1805 (Boston: Munroe & Francis)
Monthly Anthology v. 3
1806 (Boston: Munroe & Francis)
Monthly Anthology v. 4
1807 (Boston: Munroe & Francis)
Monthly Anthology v. 5
1808 (Boston: Snelling & Simons; and Hastings, Etheridge & Bliss)
Monthly Anthology v. 6
1809 (Boston: Hastings, Etheridge & Bliss)
Monthly Anthology v. 7
1809 (Boston: T. B. Wait & Co.)
Monthly Anthology v. 8
1810 (Boston: T. B. Wait & Co.)
Monthly Anthology v. 9
1810 (Boston: T. B. Wait & Co.)
Monthly Anthology v.10
1811 (Boston: T. B. Wait & Co.)

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