Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843

The information did not seem to carry much delight to the heart of him whom it was intended to benefit. He rose from his chair, bowed to his lordship, and then followed the turn...

"It is false--it is false!" continued the speaker emphatically. "I cannot melt a rock. I cannot penetrate a heart of stone. If I could do so, he would be otherwise."

"Now, sir, I am ashamed to confess to you--but I have asked you to hear my history--and you shall hear the truth in the teeth of shame--that all my sympathy was, from this hour,...

"'Never with that,' she answered almost solemnly. 'My lips shall never bid you turn from the course which you have chosen, and to which you have been called. You do not require...

At this moment a soft sound of music arose at a distance. I looked in vain for the musicians--none were visible. The strain, incomparably managed, now approached, now receded, n...

"'You have promised, dear,' said she, 'never to look upon the past. You acted for the best. So did we all. It is our consolation and support. But the present is sad and mournful...

On went the schooner; fainter and fainter grew the outline of the land, till at length it sank under the horizon, and nothing was visible but the castle of the Molo and the topm...

"Yes," said Sir P----, "so many live by their wits in Paris, that even the marquis of the mob might have his chance; but a bon-mot actually saved, within these few days, one eve...

The last farthing of the loan has now been expended, and the protecting powers have intimated to King Otho, in very strong terns, that he must immediately commence paying the in...

Arriving with almost equal rapidity, but with better fortune, I had but just time to spring into the street, at the instant when the old lady, writhing herself out of the window...

The brothers Schlegel belonged to what Frederick in his lectures calls the third generation of modern German literature. The whole period from 1750 to 1800, being divided into t...

The advantages of a line between Manchester and Liverpool were obvious. It connected the two towns--the importing and the manufacturing--which needed connexion the most; and, in...

"Schiller had good reason to be angry with them. With their aesthetical denunciations and critical club-law, it was a comparatively cheap matter for them to knock him down in a...

It was also expected by the Greeks that one of the first acts of the royal government would have been to abolish the duty on all articles carried by sea from one part of the kin...

It is supposed that the tolls throughout England are let for more than a million and a half a-year! A saving of one half in this enormous amount would fructify in the pockets (n...

The dinner was such as might be expected at the table of a general commanded at the same time an army and the blockade of a much-frequented port. The most delicious French and S...

"The necessity of reducing the young, in the first instance, to implicit obedience, and the utility of a strict routine of duties, is not hereby disputed. The impressions arisin...

It was instructive to look alternately at the criminal and at him who must award his punishment. There they were, both men--both the children of a universal Father--both sons of...

The most singular feature of King Otho's government is his cabinet, or, as the Greek newspapers call it, "the Camarilla." This cabinet has no official constitution; yet its memb...

Why, then, should sorrow cloud the brow, should misery crush the heart, Since all life's varied changes "come like shadows, so depart?" There is one sun, there is one shower, to...

"All inconvenience is avoided by a slight inferiority of strength and abilities in one of the sexes. This gradually develops a particular turn of character, a new class of affec...

Such a law must, alone, have been fatal to that domestic purity which we justly consider the basis of social happiness--the very word, [Greek: hetairai], which the Athenians enj...

"There" (but we quote one of the most remarkable passages in the book) "is a general aversion from the labour of thought, in all who have not had the faculties exercised while t...

Such is a general outline of the philosophy of Frederick Schlegel--a philosophy belonging to the class theological and supernatural, to the genus Christian, to the species sacer...

Thus has it been with him specially in the last new case of poaching on the manor of Mr Joseph Hume, whose game he unhesitatingly appropriates, disguising it only in a sauce of...

Some time ago, business of an important character carried me to the beautiful and populous city of ----. I remember to have visited it when I was a child, in the company of a do...

In this brief article we have treated only of the salient points of the colonial slanders of Mr Cobden and the League. We have challenged them only with carrying to colonial acc...