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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLIII. MARCH, 1845. VOL. LVII.

CONTENTS.

SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS: BEING A SEQUEL TO THE CONFESSIONS OF AN
ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, 269

MRS POOLE'S "ENGLISHWOMAN IN EGYPT," 286

PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE--STEPHENS' BOOK OF THE FARM, &C., 298

STANZAS, 314

LORD MALMESBURY'S DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE 315

GERMAN-AMERICAN ROMANCES. PART II., 331

BRITISH HISTORY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 353

NORTH'S SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS. NO. II--DRYDEN AND POPE, 369

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLIII. MARCH, 1845. VOL. LVII.

SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS: BEING A SEQUEL TO THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH
OPIUM-EATER.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.

In 1821, as a contribution to a periodical work--in 1822, as a separate
volume--appeared the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." The object
of that work was to reveal something of the grandeur which belongs
_potentially_ to human dreams. Whatever may be the number of those in whom
this faculty of dreaming splendidly ca