Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

THOMAS DE QUINCEY. THE MINER'S DAUGHTERSA TALE OF THE PEAK. MOORISH DOMESTIC LIFE. THE RAILWAY STATION. THE SICK MAN'S PRAYER SOPHISTRY OF ANGLERS.IZAAK WALTON. GLOBES, AND HOW THEY ARE MADE. LETTICE ARNOLD. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. FIFTY YEARS AGO. A PARIS NEWSPAPER. ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT. RECOLLECTIONS OF EMINENT MEN. ODE TO THE SUN. TWO-HANDED DICK THE STOCKMAN. THE USES OF SORROW. BENJAMIN WEST. PEACE. ALCHEMY AND GUNPOWDER. GLIMPSES OF THE EAST. CHRIST-HOSPITAL WORTHIES. LEIGH HUNT DROWNING. WILLIAM PITT. IGNORANCE OF THE ENGLISH. LINES BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. THE SCHOOLMASTER OF COLERIDGE AND LAMB. EDUCATION IN AMERICA SCENES IN EGYPT. SCENERY ON THE ERIE RAILROAD. BATHINGITS UTILITY. POVERTY OF THE ENGLISH BAR. SONNET ON THE DEATH OF WORDSWORTH. MAURICE TIERNAY, THE PLANET-WATCHERS OF GREENWICH. RAPID GROWTH OF AMERICA. LORD COKE AND LORD BACON. FATHER AND SON. DIPLOMACYLORD CHESTERFIELD. THOMAS MOORE. THE APPETITE FOR NEWS. A FEW WORDS ON CORALS. A NIGHT IN THE BELL INN. DEATH OF CROMWELL. MY WONDERFUL ADVENTURES IN SKITZLAND. CHARLOTTE CORDAY. GREENWICH WEATHER-WISDOM. DOING. YOUNG RUSSIA. THE ORPHAN'S VOYAGE HOME. LORD BYRON, WORDSWORTH, AND CHARLES LAMB. AMERICAN VANITY. MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS. LITERARY NOTICES. SUMMER FASHIONS. When "Gilfillan's Gallery" first appeared, a copy of it was sent to an eminent lay-divine, the first sentence of whose reply was, "You have sent me a list of shipwrecks." It was but too true, for that "Gallery" contains the name of a Godwin, shipwrecked on a false system, and a Shelley, shipwrecked on an extravagant version of that false systemand a Hazlitt, shipwrecked on no system at alland a Hall, driven upon the rugged reef of madnessand a Foster, cast high and dry upon the dark shore of Misanthropyand an Edward Irving, inflated into sublime idiocy by the breath of popular favor, and in the subsidence of that breath, left to roll at the mercy of the waves, a mere logand lastly, a Coleridge and a De Quincy, stranded on the same poppy-covered coast, the land of the "Lotos-eaters," where it is never morning, nor midnight, nor full day, but always afternoon. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 31187
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Release Date: Feb 5, 2010
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