Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845

VIRGIL, TASSO, AND RAPHAEL

PING-KEE'S VIEW OF THE STAGE

THE MIDNIGHT WATCH

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION

MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. Part XVI

BETHAM'S ETRURIA CELTICA

SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS: BEING A SEQUEL TO THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. Part I. – (Continued from last Number.)

North's Specimens of the British Critics. No. III

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Mr Warford, the nephew of Mr Smalltrade, a banker, is in conversation with Mr Plainly, the head clerk: —

In the next page we are shown the mode in which banking was carried on in country towns by persons who had the daughters of lords visiting them – who have gone abroad for their health, and left then such uncountable heaps of sycee silver.

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"I could not leave my father," replied Mildred more seriously; "although he knows and approves our attachment; he would have chid me had he been aware that I come to have speech of you from my window; and as it is, I have done wrong to come. Besides, he was weary, and bade me read to him, and I sat by his side, and read to him the Bible, until, in the midst of an exhortation to watch and pray, I heard a sound that he himself might have called an uplifting of the horn of Sion, and behold he was snoring in his chair; and then, in the naughtiness of my heart, I stole from his presence to come to my room – and – and – tend my flowers," she added with an arch smile.

"You thought of me then, and came, though late, to see me?" said Gerald eagerly.

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