Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
thing given to the eyes of man. But, by some perverse association, she never saw it in its natural beauty and sublimity, but looked at it always as the emblem of ruthless and destroying power. In _The Last Song of Sappho_, it is singular how much more the dread sea, into which...
I remember one morning, when a boy, loitering by an old wall, to watch the operations of a garden spider, whose web seemed to be in great request. When I first stopped, she was...
1. did. The sea, next to the sky, is the grandest and most beautifulthing given to the eyes of man. But, by some perverse association, she never saw it in its natural beauty and sublimity, but looked at it always as the emblem of ruthless and de...
4. CHAPTER XXXVII.On my return to The Lamb, I found that my uncle was in a soft sleep; and after an evening visit from the surgeon, and his assurance that the fever was fast subsiding, and all ca...
3. CHAPTER XXXVI.All this had been so sudden that, to use the trite phrase--for no other is so expressive--it was like a dream. I felt an absolute, an imperious want of solitude, of the open air...
2. CHAPTER XXXV.There entered, in the front drawing-room of my father's house in Russell Street--an Elf!!! clad in white,--small, delicate, with curls of jet over her shoulders;--with eyes so l...
10. part VI., 573Poetry: The Buried flower, 108 Huzzah for the rule of the Whigs, 112 To a caged skylark, 290 Sonnet to Denmark, 292 Danube and the Euxine, 608 A Call, 625.
9. part II., The Moscow retreat, 359.France, agriculture of, compared with that of England, 3 her law of real property, succession, &c., 6, 11 feeling in America on the revolution in, 31 State of, June 1848, 51 the...
8. Part VIII. chap. xxxv., 6727. Part VII. chap. xxvi., 388chap. xxvii., 392 chap. xxviii., 395 chap. xxix., 396 chap. xxx., My father's first love, 397 chap. xxxi., Wherein my father continues his story, 400 chap. xxxii., Wherein my fa...
6. Part VI. chap. xviii., 315