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Blackwood's Magazine, to the following purpose : "My father remembered old Jean Gordon of Yetholm, who had great sway among her tribe. She was quite a Meg Merrilies, and possessed the savage virtue of fidelity in the same perfection.
The title itself shows that he was partly laughing at his own performance; he has the mockery of Les Jeunes France in him, as well as the wormy and obituary joys of La Comedie de la Mort. The little book came out, inspired by "all the poetasters." Christopher North wrote, four years later, in Blackwood's Magazine, a tardy review.
The world does not need reminders such as that of Wittenberg or of such singularly accurate narratives as several in Blackwood's Magazine to know what has happened to British prisoners in Germany. It is common knowledge throughout the German Empire that the most loathsome tasks of the war in connection, with every camp or cage are given to the British.
Never was there a young man so encrusted with conceit. If this is the tone adopted by Blackwood's Magazine in relation to Keats living and dead, one need not be surprised to find that the verdict of the same review upon the poem of Adonais, then newly published, ran to the following effect: 'Locke says the most resolute liar cannot lie more than once in every three sentences.
He became at an early period of his life a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals, and in 1846 pub. a life of Hume, which attracted considerable attention, and was followed by Lives of Lord Lovat and Lord President Forbes. On the whole, however, his is regarded as the most generally trustworthy and valuable history of Scotland at present existing.
That evening, while sitting around the big wood stove, we discussed Shakespeare, Byron, Scott, and even the latest novel that was then in vogue "Trilby," if I remember right for the Spears not only subscribed to the Illustrated London News and Blackwood's but they took Harper's and Scribner's, too.
Moir began to write in both prose and verse for various periodicals when quite a youth, but his long connection with "Blackwood's Magazine" under the pen name of "Delta", began in 1820, and he became associated with Christopher North, the Ettrick Shepherd, and others of the Edinburgh coterie distinguished in "Noctes Ambrosianae."
"It was an old magazine Blackwood's Magazine, I believe, is the name of it; I found two great piles of them in a closet upstairs the other day; and I brought this one down." "This is the first that you have read?" "Yes; I got very much interested in a curious story there; why?" "What will you say, Ellie, if I ask you to leave the rest of the two piles unopened?"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and its rival Tatt's Magazine received a large number of contributions. The English Mail-Coach appeared in 1849 in Blackwood. Joan of Arc had already been published in Tait. De Quincey continued to drink laudanum throughout his life, twice after 1821 in very great excess. During his last years he nearly completed a collected edition of his works.
Several other authors were more or less closely associated with the Lake Poets by residence or social affiliation. John Wilson, the editor of Blackwood's, lived for some time, when a young man, at Elleray, on the banks of Windermere. He was an athletic man of outdoor habits, an enthusiastic sportsman, and a lover of natural scenery.
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