Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844

"'Every body knows that a true sporting dog will follow any one who has a gun on his shoulder. "Soliman, Soliman!" cried I; and Soliman came. Sir, the instinct of the dog was re...

I am unable to give you an accurate notion of the general appearance of the country. Speaking in broad terms it is wooded, but not so densely as on the Sydney side, Van Diemen's...

One of those papers contained a detail of several projects by the leading members of the Assembly for the government of France. Guiscard, after bending his wise head over them,...

Still we are not at all disposed to quarrel with the volumes. They contain a great deal of pleasant matter; and the letters are evidently, in general, the work of a higher order...

"Thou knowest not, Antony, what a life is that of an artist! While yet a child, he is agitated by heavy incomprehensible thoughts: to him the sphynx, Genius, hath already propos...

"Whose banner flames in battle's van! Whose mail is first in slaughter gored! Thou, subtler than the serpent, DAN,[10] Prince of the arrow and the sword. Woe to the Syrian chari...

Iván's first acts were acts of submission. They were perhaps intended to tranquillize the suspicions with which the first movements of a young prince are certain to be regarded...

To the astonishment, and perhaps to the envy, of the fashionable world, those two unportioned young women made the most splendid matches of the season. The Duke of Hamilton fell...

We seemed even to make no progress. We began to think that the scene would never change. But one evening, when the troop had lain down under the shelter of a knoll, my sergeant,...

"'Bravo! You may reckon upon me, captain, for a supply of game. That is, if you will order my fowling-piece to be returned to me. I cannot shoot well with any other.

"Ay, ay--edge and point are good things in their way. But they are the temptations of the general. Frederick's maxim was--The bullet for the infantry, the spur for the dragoon....

I leave it to others to give the history of this campaign, one of the most memorable of Europe from its consequences--the tramp of that army roused the slumbering giant of Franc...

But beyond any other evil consequence prepared by the Free Church, is the appalling spirit of Jacobinism which accompanies their whole conduct, and which latterly has avowed its...

We choose to be satirical, and call it vanity; but put both anecdotes into tolerably good grave Latin, and name them Portia and Lucretia, and we should have as fine a sentiment...

"He travell'd Europe round, And gather'd every vice on foreign ground; Till home return'd, and perfectly well-bred, With nothing but a solo in his head; Stolen from a duel, foll...

THE HERETIC THRUSH-HUNTING. BY ALEXANDER DUMAS HIGH LIFE IN THE LAST CENTURY NEWS FROM AN EXILED CONTRIBUTOR THE PROPHECY OF THE TWELVE TRIBES A BEWAILMENT FROM BATH; OR, POOR O...

"12. She has not even excluded from the benefit of these reductions the very countries under whose simultaneous enactments, of a hostile character, she is at this moment sufferi...

[4]_Nástia_--the diminutive of Anastasia; Nástenka, the same. Russian caressing names generally end in sia, sha, óusha, or óushka--as Vásia, (for Iván;) Andrióusha, (Andrei;) Va...

Now, having stated the practice of Scottish induction, as it was formerly sustained in its first stage by law, in its second stage by usage, let us finish that part of the subje...

I remember, when a boy, walking with an elderly gentleman, and passing a broker's stall, there was the portrait of a fine florid gentleman in regimentals; he stopped to look at...

You must not, however, on this account, think too ill of the poor painter. He is subject to human infirmities--so are you--and his hand and eye are not always in tune. He has, t...

Here, then, was the machinery by which the faction worked. They drew that power from Scotland rekindled into a temper of religious anxiety, which they never could have drawn fro...

As to that evil which acts through opinion, it works by a machinery, viz. the press and social centralization in great cities, which in these days is perfect. Right or wrong, ju...

Having read thus far, you will very likely tap the floor impatiently with your foot, and say--if you have not said it already--"Well, but what is the fellow about himself?" Pati...

Beauclerk was the only son of Lord Sydney Beauclerk, a son of Charles, first Duke of St Albans. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and, from the moment of his entering...

The advocates of free trade are not insensible to the superior advantages of the rising over the old state in agriculture, and of the latter over the former in manufactures. On...