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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLI. JANUARY, 1845. Vol. LVII.

CONTENTS

Homer, Dante, and Michael Angelo, 1

Settled at Last, Or, Red River Recollections, 18

Borodino. An Ode, 30

A Ramble in Montenegro, 33

AEsthetics of Dress. A Case of Hats, 51

The Three Guardsmen, 59

Marston; Or the Memoirs of a Statesman. Part XV., 75

Janus: From the Fasti of Ovid, 94

To a Blind Girl, 98

The Forced Sale, 99

Vanities in Verse. By B. Simmons, 114

Coleridge and Opium-eating, 117

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BLACKWOOD'S
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MAGAZINE.

VOL. LVII.

JANUARY-JUNE, 1845.

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1845.

BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLI. JANUARY, 1845. Vol. LVII.

HOMER, DANTE, AND MICHAEL ANGELO.

There is something inexpressibly striking, it may almost be said
awful, in the fame of HOMER. Three thousand years have elapsed since
the bard of Chios bega