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ron and including the Chancellor Sparre a man of unparalleled cunning and baseness than whom Satan himself could have selected no better advocate. During her examination Fraulein von Rudenskjöld was most cruelly treated and the words of the correspondence were distorted with infamous subtlety into whatever construction... | null |
countries which both in trifling and important matters but especially in the character of their inhabitants are far more dissimilar than from their juxtaposition might have been supposed. Listen to Mr Boas. ""On meeting an interesting person for the first time one frequently endeavours to trace a resemblance with some ... | null |
ts of locomotion. Why can't the directors have more Christianlike names for their moving power? What connexion is there between a beautiful new engine shining in all its finery--the personification of obedient and beneficent strength--with the ""Infernal "" or the ""Phlegethon "" or the ""Styx?"" Are they aware what a ... | null |
ff to bed and we amused ourselves by listening to the rain on the window panes and the whistling of the wind in the long passages; and with a resolution to be up in good time to pursue our house-hunting project on the morrow we concluded the fifth day of our peregrinations in search of change of air. We had a charming ... | null |
es and fills the startled ear With whisper'd terrors. ""_Leonora._ But the future brings New joys new friendships. ""_Princess._ Let me keep the old. Change may amuse it scarce can profit us. I never thrust with youthful eagerness A curious hand into the shaken urn Of life's great lottery with hope to find Some object ... | null |
e imagined than such a loose hanger-on rather than member of society as David the _Telynwr_--for _his_ nature was _hers_; except perhaps in virtuous resolution he was a female Winifred. Yet he possessed a romantic ""leaning at least to virtue's side."" This was oddly exemplified now (to return to their present position... | null |
before the present ominous mystery--ominous of she _knew_ not what therefore involving every thing dreadful. Meanwhile the swinging of the large oak branches in the close of a squally day their groaning and the vast glooms that their foliage shed all below the twilight rapidly deepening into confirmed night all tended... | null |
ver and over again such forms of natural expression as the following --and when they do occur let us have them; but what a feeble modernizer must he be who keeps adding to the number till he gives his readers the ear-ache. Not one of the following is in the original:-- ""At Algeziras in Granada he "" ""At many a noble ... | null |
onging of sweet thoughts that ever long."" That ever long! The sweetest of thoughts are never satisfied with their own deliciousness. Earthly delight or heavenly delight upon earth penetrating the soul stirs in it the perception of its native illimitable capacity for delight. Bliss which should wholly possess the blest... | null |
27818 | generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the relevant article. Greek transliterations are surrounded by ~tildes~. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCLVIII. AUGUST 1845. VOL. LVIII. CONTE... |
a manner quite as bold and singular that the state has really no right to inflict any punishment that is not of a reformatory character. It is true he admits of punishment--could a man of his experience do otherwise? But he admits it only as a part of his _curative process_. It is to induce ""submission and penitence.... | null |
at sorcerer pray Fulfilling the prophet's dread mission: His life he had wasted in penance and pain:-- And beside that enchanter Olég drew his rein. ""Now rede me enchanter beloved of Perún The good and the ill that's before me; Shall I soon give my neighbour-foes triumph and soon Shall the earth of the grave be piled ... | null |
feel the hopelessness of calling for public reliance when in every successive debate we heard the leader of Opposition contemptuously asking what answer we had to the Gazette crowded with bankruptcy? to the resolutions of great bodies of the people denouncing the war? or to the deadly evidence of its effects in the bu... | null |
rity. Fête now succeeded fête; the standards taken in Suwarrow's battles the proudest trophies ever won by Russian arms were carried in procession to the cathedral; illuminations of the capital balls in the palaces and public sports on the waters and banks of the Neva kept St Petersburg in a perpetual tumult of joy. Bu... | null |
e evidence for and against the bill. One side represents the country as abounding in mineral produce and agricultural wealth: the other likens it unto Patmos or the stony Arabia. Tims swears that the people of his district are mad insane rabid in favour of the line. Jenkins his next-door neighbour on the contrary prote... | null |
T CIRCUS _Knight of the Bull and Mouth;_ SIR LAD LANE _Knight of the Swan with Two Necks;_ SIR SNOW HILL _Knight of the Saracen's Head;_ SIR LUDGATE HILL _Knight of the Belle Sauvage;_ SIR FLEET STREET _Knight of the Bolt-in-Tun; and_ SIR CHARING CROSS _Knight of the Golden Cross._ CHORUS ('_To the Gay Tournament._') T... | null |
rpose between them. ""Interpose! interfere between two persons who were to be henceforth but one! This changes wonderfully the idea which from the beginning of the world has been entertained of marriage. ""But this is not all; they avow that they do not pretend to make an impartial interference that might favour each o... | null |
f than in his contrasted characters of youth and age. I wonder how many of the old gentlemen who call themselves philosophers in this degenerate age ever read or remember what he says on the subject. It is a great comfort when one is arguing against so much collective wisdom to feel that one has such authority to fall ... | null |
n to wine or breakfast next day. ""It's me sir--open the door "" was the reply from a deep baritone which the initiated would never have mistaken. ""Who are you?"" said Carey again. ""My name is Perkins sir: have the goodness to let me in."" He was getting more angry and consequently more polite. ""Perkins?"" said Care... | null |
resolution."" In order not to inconvenience the inhabitants Zumalacarregui was in the habit of distributing his troops over large districts himself frequently remaining with only a handful of men about him. On one of these occasions an incident occurred which is related at considerable length by General Zaratiegui who ... | null |
ong squadrons of dragoons. The latter charged the Carlist cavalry which was of much inferior force and threw it into complete disorder. Zumalacarregui who was a short way behind saw the disgraceful flight of his lancers set spurs to his horse came up with the fugitives and rallied them. As soon as he had got together f... | null |
e this can be done without supposed personal ill-will; for the Mastix is then only doing a duty plainly prescribed. The theologian must censure and trample as mire the railing assailant of the truths which in his eyes contain salvation. The reviewer must review. But what it may be asked moves any follower of the Muses ... | null |
nds; Then sighing thus 'And am I now threescore? Ah why ye Gods! should two and two make four?' He said and climb'd a stranded lighter's height Shot to the black abyss and plung'd downright: The senior's judgment all the crowd admire Who but to sink the deeper rose the higher. ""Next Smedley div'd; slow circles dimpled... | null |
sly constructed as a work of art and it rises out of and ascends from the Third a completed creation. To call that YAWN mock-heroic would be profane--it is sublime! ""Speaking of the _Dunciad_ "" continues the Doctor ""as a work of art in a critical not religious light I must venture to affirm that the subject of this ... | null |
32738 | file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCLIX. SEPTEMBER 1845. VOL. LVIII. CONTENTS. ENGLISH LANDSCAPE--CONSTABLE 257 MAHMOOD THE GHAZNAVIDE. By B. SIMMONS 266 MARSTON; OR THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART XIX. 272 WATERTON'... |
nt sense--his kindness--his generosity--which laboured to make its object forget the boon or at least the benefactor; his strong attachment to his order yet with a clear perception of the drawbacks inherent in the English hierarchical system; the caustic and somewhat cynical turn of his remarks on contemporary art--com... | null |
the public aspect exhibited peculiarities which interested me the more that they could never have appeared in older times and probably will never return. In the midst of military splendour there was a wild haggard and unhappy character stamped on all things. The streets of the capital had not yet felt the influence of... | null |
comparison; the armies of ancient Rome alone approached it in point of discipline but the most powerful Roman army never reached a fifth of its number. I see at this moment before me the conquerors of the Continent the brigades which have swept Italy the bayonets and cannon which have broken down Austria and extinguish... | null |
festivals I rode with their hidalgos and I marched with their troops. One of the peculiarities which as an Englishman has always interested me in foreign travel is that it brings us back to a period different from the existing age at home. All descending from a common stock every nation of Europe has made a certain adv... | null |
ight well have spared the recital of his feats in this way upon the cayman of Guiana had he not been influenced in this and numberless other instances by the greatest possible love of the marvellous and a constant propensity to dress truth in the garb of fiction;"" and subsequently speaks of the cayman as ""so timid th... | null |
ed by effecting a great saving of expense in the length of the pleadings and their incidents; by securing an economical and satisfactory trial at Nisi Prius through the precise and specific nature of the issues required to be presented to the jury and the effectual expedients resorted to for the purpose of saving an un... | null |
e Béarnese have at all times been noted was at the very time of his marriage deeply in love with the Baroness de Sauve one of Catharine de Medicis' ladies by whom he was in his turn beloved. But although little affection existed between the royal pair the strong links of interest and ambition bound them together; and n... | null |
gradually placed themselves between the latter and the two princes arraying themselves in _échelon_ with a sort of strategic skill which implied a habit of military manoeuvres. Guise and his followers would have had to ride over them to get at the Duke of Alençon and the King of Navarre; whilst on the other side a long... | null |
ad they dared to speak out. Under these circumstances the English reader will perhaps be obliged to us for taking the trouble to sketch out a short outline of the life and temper of Baron Stein from such scanty materials as time and chance have thrown in our way; and he will at the same time pardon the great deficienci... | null |
result? But I will not attempt to discuss this subject in all its bearings. Enough if you will believe me that in the arrangement of the future political state of Germany I do not look for a mere FARCE; while at the same time I feel obliged to protest decidedly in present circumstances at least against your project of ... | null |
as of the citizens of the ancient world Juliet is the most perfect delineation of the refined passions of the modern. The bursting heart uncontrollable grief but yet generous spirit of the Moor--the dark ambition and blood-stained career of the Scot come as fresh from his pencil as the dreamy contemplation of the Princ... | null |
riters of the greatest ability in this department of literature and which has marred or ruined the effect of some of their happiest conceptions. It has arisen doubtless from romance writers having observed the extreme multiplicity of incidents and events in real life and in the complicated maze of historical narrative;... | null |
but in her perhaps elevated by an occasional burst of poetry into something higher than is met with in the _Ayrshire Legatees_ or even in _Cyril Thornton_. In saying this we allude of course to none of the tedious ""havers"" contained in the book dedicated to the King of Prussia or at least to the anti-biblical parts o... | null |
nd choicest spirits. Nature should lead the true poet by the hand and he has far better things to do than to busy himself in counting the warts upon it as Pope did. A cup of water from Hippocrene tasting as it must of innocent pastoral sights and sounds of the bleat of lambs of the shadows of leaves and flowers that ha... | null |
within. But besides the disparity--which is great--of strength of intellectual rank--this draws an insuperable difference in kind between him and Pope or Dryden that they are essentially poets. The gift of song is on their lips. If they turn Satirists they bring the power to another than its wonted and native vocation... | null |
cy of the graphical and the characteristic. It asks bitter animosity and vile vituperation and is satisfied. The individuality of a nation is curiously made up. The country which they inhabit makes a part of it the most easily understood. Their manners customs and institutions make another part of it much of which is o... | null |
29110 | generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCLX. OCTOBER 1845. Vol. LVIII. CONTENTS. Montesquieu 389 A Reminiscence of Boyhood. By Delta 408 De Burtin on Pictures 413 Manner and Matter 431 Marston; or the Memoirs of a Statesman. Conclusion. 439 How we Got ... |
nceptions cannot be rightly appreciated by subsequent ages. That is the consequence of their very originality and importance. They have sunk so deep and spread so far among mankind that they have become common and almost trite. Like the expressions of Shakspeare Gray or Milton they have become household words; on readi... | null |
e who live under an hereditary aristocracy. The prince is so far distant from his subjects that he is rarely seen by them; he is so far above them that nothing in his situation can mortify his self-love. But the nobles who govern in an aristocracy are under the eyes of all and they are not so elevated but that odious c... | null |
e aspirants in art who ere they have unlearned any thing set up for themselves--and abuse the old masters. Generally speaking they are brought up in an anti-ideal school; the powers therefore that nature has given them are not only uncultivated but led astray; and similar education and similar tastes in the public find... | null |
s sisters aunts and cousins? It has been said that in compliment to William III. many of the portraits of the ancestors of the courtiers of the day were re-painted with aquiline noses. M. de Burtin very justly observes that the new touches on old pictures do not preserve their tone but he does not give the true reason.... | null |
should read with attention. We do not say follow but read; for it is indeed a very serious matter to recommend a varnish seeing how many pictures are totally ruined by bad applications. We have been told that drying oil mixed with mastic varnish has been though not very recently used in our National Gallery. We hope it... | null |
tume who had gathered that he was the sufferer by some act of injustice of a rich oppressor thought on one occasion to console him by the reflection that his wrongdoer would certainly suffer for it in the next world--in his own energetic language that he would certainly be d----d. ""Not on my account--not I hope on my ... | null |
the wisdom of their fathers without rejecting the wisdom of the living age; aspiring but to the ministration of universal good and feeling that its opulence knowledge and grandeur are only gifts for mankind. The system of the war was now fully established. All the feelings of England were fixed on the Peninsula and all... | null |
that's not of much consequence. I see the whole thing! Unrivalled scenery--stupendous waterfalls--herds of black cattle--spot where Prince Charles Edward met Macgrugar of Glengrugar and his clan! We could not possibly have lighted on a more promising place. Hand us over that sheet of paper like a good fellow and a pen.... | null |
still the Glenmutchkin Railway shares were at a premium though rather lower than when we sold. Our engineer Watty Solder returned from his first survey of the line along with an assistant who really appeared to have some remote glimmerings of the science and practice of mensuration. It seemed from a verbal report that ... | null |
se paresse &c. have never been accounted for; and in like manner the etymology of all English words ending in _ess_ and _ness_ as car_ess_ happi_ness_ &c. has been unknown. But here the reader as he has not yet seen how we are to discover in words their own definitions may say that though he can admit _caress_ and _car... | null |
at the first hostel we encountered and proceeded up a country lane to spend an hour or two among the ruins. The entrance is very fine and might give rise to grand historic emotions in people fond of the feudal and sublime; but in our instance such a train of thought would have been impossible for just inside of the ma... | null |
_ should have been Semiramis even in her palmy day! Actors and actresses _will_ not know that words written for them scenery and dresses adapted for them and attitudes invented for them can never _make_ them the personages mentioned in the playbill. On returning home we stood at our balcony gazing on the lovely face of... | null |
at frigate engaged two Turkish men-of-war and captured one of them which proved to be a frigate much larger than herself. During his career of service he visited every quarter of the globe. After having served nearly fifteen years he was sent to the West Indies in command of the Kangaroo a vessel destined for the surve... | null |
Negropont to compel them to raise the siege of Athens. This was the only feasible method by which the Greeks could ever have hoped to defeat the Turks; but when the execution of it was proposed it always met with some opposition. When it was at last undertaken by a foreigner the operation was conducted in so weak and ... | null |
the Greek squadron would quit the gulf in the daytime. Hastings immediately made every preparation for cutting her out but the Austrian consul was seen approaching in a small boat with a flag like the ensign of a three-decker. The following dialogue took place between him and Hastings alongside the Karteria while the A... | null |
rink of the peasants who cultivate them. ""_Te_ Trifolinus ager _fecundis vitibus_ implet Suspectumque jugum _Cumis_ et _Gaurus inanis_."" The _vinum Setinum_ wine fit for patriots to drink ""on the birthdays of Brutus and Cassius "" was never heard of by a subject of the _Pope_ nor would be worth above a _paul_ a flas... | null |
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which he had arrived. The count re-entered the house; and as soon as he had done so Luis dropped from his tree and hurried to rejoin Mariano. In another hour they had returned to the venta. Luis Herrera was the son of a Castilian gentleman who had suffered much both in person and property for his steady adherence to t... | null |
d learned three days previously that risings were taking place in his own neighbourhood in the name of Charles V. he had attached very little importance to the intelligence. An old soldier himself he entertained the most unmitigated contempt for the Realista volunteers whom he looked upon as a set of tailors whose musk... | null |
s of the most accomplished and distinguished of our aristocratic beauties. But alas! there is no royal road to literature any more than geometry. Almack's and the exclusives the opera and ducal houses the lordlings and the guards form an admirable school for manners and are an indispensable preliminary to success at co... | null |
he three centuries which have elapsed since they were first introduced; but some idea of their number may be formed from the following facts in regard to such portions of these vast herds as are capable of being counted. It is calculated that in the plains from the mouths of the Orinoco to the lake Maracaybo there are ... | null |
e duke--""amicable terms. Political opponents it seems we are destined to be. The world gives us out as the selected champions of two hostile factions. You affect the commons I side with the nobility. Be it so. But there exists between us I hope a mutual respect; and it would be my greatest boast if in spite of this po... | null |
The silence of the room was suddenly broken by Maria who turning to the slave exclaimed in a tone of anguish--""Hakem you must save him! you must save him!"" This was said in mere desperation certainly not with any distinct hope that it was in the power of Hakem to obey. When therefore she heard his voice reply in a ca... | null |
the year to the other; and yet it is to be thought a matter of rejoicing if after talking oneself into a consumption something or other is got by it. ""I am far my dear Wolfgang from having the least mistrust in you--on the contrary on your filial love I place all confidence and every hope. Every thing now depends upon... | null |
sing a dozen of the most interesting and scientific variations upon the air _Non più andrai_. It is needless to mention the uproar that followed. The concert was altogether found so delightful that a second upon the same plan soon followed. A sonnet was written in his honour and his performances brought him one thousan... | null |
cting lines of fire looked like streets in a blaze; and when here and there a more conspicuous burst took place fancy pictured a church or some large building a prey to the element. Not contented with this distant view three of our party started for the hut whence in the afternoon we had so fine a prospect. When there ... | null |
ny lives they have taken in fair and open fight ever occasion them. Athos especially the most reflecting and sensitive of the four continually reproaches himself with the share he took in that act of illegal justice. This woman has left a son who inherits all her vices and who having been proved illegitimate has been d... | null |
of re-entering Paris by the gate of St Honoré D'Artagnan who had time to spare went round to that of Richelieu. The guard stopped him and when they saw by his plumed hat and laced cloak that he was an officer of mousquetaires they insisted upon his crying out ""Down with Mazarine."" This he did with so good a grace an... | null |
ia come Cristiano_ ""--he eats like a Christian all he can get out of the ground; only the more he gets the better he looks for it--which is not always the case with Christians. There are two kinds of _Gran Turco_ or _maize_; that sown in May is of rather better quality than the other and produces on an average 10 lbs.... | null |
ment arrives for the critical start then ""_Duplices tendens ad sidera palmas_ "" he becomes quite Virgilian. The unfurled cambric flutters to the breeze of his own creation and coruscations of white kid and other white materials pass and repass before our eyes. He gives vent to his emotions in tears after a reasonable... | null |
le wonder that for the chance of unfrequent gain men should choose rather than leave their capital unemployed to run the risk of the frequent loss. It does not however follow as a matter of course that home speculation shall always prove profitable either to the invester or to the nation at large. We have said already ... | null |
ing that all our remarks on the subject of capital were erroneous and that our financial views were as puerile as we believe them to be strictly sound--we fall back upon an element which is more easily ascertained and that is LABOUR. We hold it to be a clear economical maxim that beyond a certain point at all events wi... | null |
33938 | generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: A few obvious misprints have been corrected but in general the originally erratic spelling punctuation and typesetting conventions have been retained. Accents in foreign-language poetry and phrases particularly the Greek are incon... |
ish cabinet at the conduct of the Dutch generals he strove only to moderate it; and prevailed on them to suspend the sending of a formal remonstrance which they had prepared to the States-general till the effect of his own private representation in that quarter was first ascertained. The result proved that he had judge... | null |
ys quietly with you that I shall not venture myself but when it is absolutely necessary; and I am sure you are so kind to me and wish so well to the common cause that you had rather see me dead than not do my duty. I am persuaded that this campaign will bring in a good peace; and I beg of you to do all that you can tha... | null |
me to stay as little as possible at the Hague though the Pensionary tells me I must stay to finish the succession treaty and their barrier which should I stay the whole winter I am very confident would not be brought to perfection. For they are of so many minds and are all so very extravagant about their barrier that I... | null |
It was the hottest moment of the fight; by their impetuosity and courage the Carlists were keeping at bay the superior numbers of their antagonists; and on their extreme left a small party of horsemen consisting of four or five officers and a dozen lancers had ventured to advance a short distance into the plain. They ... | null |
he beltmakers'. The interior consists of a broad alley intersected by four transverse alleys with double rows of shops where the dealers who are all Moslems sit on platforms raised about three feet and a half from the pavement. They constitute a guild among themselves presided over by a sheikh with a deputy and six eld... | null |
d with the janissaries it is probable that little or no change has since taken place. These guilds included not only the handicraft and other trades but the physicians and other learned professions and even the _Oolemah_ and imams and others connected with the mosques. Each marched with its own badges and ensigns heade... | null |
k! there--fairly in the sky--where we should see but the pure ether--above the clouds which themselves are sailing high in serenest air--yes there in the blue and giddy expanse stands the solid mountain glittering like a diamond. O God! the bewildered reason pent up in cities toils much to prove and penetrate thy being... | null |
tellect in such unwearied exercise in such continual demand and in such unanswerable power? In what other nation of the world (excepting within those few years France; and that most imperfectly) has public opinion ever been appealed to? But in England to what else is there any appeal? Or does not the foreign mind bear ... | null |
nk and by the arrogance of _caste_. So excessive was this exclusiveness that Burke though the most extraordinary man of his time and one of the most memorable of any time could never obtain a seat in the cabinet; where such triflers as Newcastle such figures of patrician pedantry as Buckingham such shallow intriguers a... | null |
than a fool; and between his frolics and his follies he finally produced a species of revolution in his own country. All power fell into the hands of his queen who though of a bolder nature seems to have been scarcely less frantic than himself. On the visit of her mother the Princess of Wales to Denmark the Queen met h... | null |
ast or West Indies he returned with a very considerable fortune. He now wished to clear himself with his old mistress; ascertained that she was living purchased a diamond ring of considerable value which he determined to present in person and clear his character by telling his tale which the credit of his present condi... | null |
nt part of the ship too far off it is stated to have heard their mother's exclamation both cried out 'Papa! papa!' Mrs B---- declared that the moment she spoke she saw her husband most distinctly but the vision instantly vanished. All the persons present noted the precise time of this singular occurrence lat. and long.... | null |
lse wavering Catholic to his counsels lately. He is my son no longer since he no longer acknowledges his mother's will: and he can be spared! But when he is gone what shall be the issue Ruggieri? how stand the other horoscopes?"" ""The stars of the two Henrys rise together in the heavens"" replied the Queen's astrologe... | null |
e could not but perceive that her own son himself was not devoid of these suspicions. After the struggle of a moment with herself however during which the drops of perspiration stood upon her pale temples she resumed---- ""I love my children all; and I would save your life Charles. My ever-watchful affection for you my... | null |
t very necessary trade there exists a combination which is not regulated by law; and the consequence is that whenever a scarcity is threatened the bakers raise the price of the loaf at pleasure and on no fixed principle corresponding with the price of corn. Few persons are aware at what rate the quartern loaf _ought to... | null |
ust themselves into public notice we have thought it right in the first instance to collect and to classify our facts. This done we have yet a word or two in store for the members of the mountebank coalition. No evil is unmixed with good. The murmurs of the alarmists at home unfounded as we believe them to be have brou... | null |
rkàther 571. --The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway rhapsody 614. --The second Pandora 711. --A mother to her deserted child by J. D. 752. --Summer noontide ib. --to Clara 753. --seclusion ib. Pompadour Madame de 732. Pope's version of Chaucer remarks on 119. --Dunciad remarks on 234. --Stricture... | null |
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