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    Her Majesty's Name;

    good deal ' s in doubt whether and a name a rose . we by 66 any quite other name so sweet ; nothing in crease or » Would smell otherwise there imagination to so _sweec ; _ouierwise mere is nothing in imagination to increase or diminish pleasure : which is what the poet would never have said himself , though he makes one of his speakers say it ( By the bye , pray note

    that in your tablets , dear quoters of Shakspeare ; and quote , not him , in future , but his dramatis persona , for what

    they , and not he , utter ; at least on questionable points . ) We cannot help thinking there is something less sweet in the very scent of the word " cabbagerose" than there is in "

    muskrose , " or " moss-rose , " or rose by itself ; and were it possible to give the loveliest of flowers the name of " Abominable , " or " Loathsome" ( the " Loathsome

    Rose !! " ) it would go hard , if the assertion as to any name ' s being of no consequence would riot be found a little wanting . The lady of the name of Rose who was christened _" Wild "

    in order to enhance the delightfulnesa of her appellation , did not find that her godfathers and godmothers had been quite so judicious , when , in consequence of marrying a gentleman of a very different sort of name , she had to sign herself «< Wild Bull ! //"

    Be that part of the consideration , however , as it may , the u what ' s in a name ? " is victoriously answered by that of our < m + If > ¦ ft ¦ new sovereign , which _recomnoiends itself at once , and is felt

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    to be applicable in divers happy instances : —at least felt to be so in some , and hoped in others . _Alexandrinais instinctively displaced from the side of it , as of no pretensions in the

    comparison , or of no omen that is desirable ; for it does not refer to the ancient Alexander , and the modern one recalls ideas of preten- _* sions , both personal and national , not at all made out . Victoria .

    on the other hand , applies to her Majesty ' s having lived to be Queen , and not giving way to another heir . It applies to the state of England in the scale of nations . It applies to her Majesty ' s singular position , as

    a female , and an English sovereign , on the very top of the globe , like the figure of the goddess Victory on the ancient coins ; for at the top of the globe ,

    without disparagement to our gallant neighbour France , England assuredly at present is ; and at the top of England is this crowned girl . It may not be incurious even to add , that her

    Proclamation took place on the anniversary of the battle of the same name—Vittoria in Spain . But the word applies above all , we trust , ( for party and even

    national victories are nothing to this ) to the hopes entertained by those who consider her Majesty ' s personal interests , and the wisdom with which they are said to have been understood

    by } ier mother , as identified with the advancing conquests of knowledge and human good * - — the only things which in future can maintain crowns on the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/28/