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Title: Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLXV. MARCH, 1846. VOL. LIX.

CONTENTS.

THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIAD. (IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS,) 259

THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA. PART V., 273

MOSES AND SON. A DIDACTIC TALE, 294

VICHYANA, 306

IT'S ALL FOR THE BEST. CONCLUSION, 319

THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA, 337

MR BROOKE OF BORNEO, 356

THE SMUGGLER'S LEAP. A PASSAGE IN THE PYRENEES, 366

MINISTERIAL MEASURES, 373

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLXV. MARCH, 1846. VOL. LIX.

THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIAD,

ATTEMPTED IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS.

[It may be thought idle or presumptuous to make a new attempt towards
the naturalization among us of any measure based on the ancient
hexameter. Even Mr Southey has not been in general successful in such
efforts; yet no one can deny that here and there--as, for instance, at
the opening of his _Vision of Judgment_, and in his Fragment