Category: Poetry

Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, Vol. 76, No. 467, September 1854

Various· 2 chapters· 59,910 words

Let us imagine one of our species, at an early period of its history, destitute of any artificial aid to the sense of sight, contemplating the aspect of things around him. He perceives that, somehow or other, he lives upon a Something—apparently a flat surface, of indefinite e...

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1. PART I.[13

Let us imagine one of our species, at an early period of its history, destitute of any artificial aid to the sense of sight, contemplating the aspect of things around him. He pe...

2. CHAPTER VI.—CHARLEMONT.

The people swayed and hummed in the road, with strange burnished chequers cast over their very visages as they pressed against the gorgeous gates, thrown open towards each other...