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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLIV. APRIL, 1845. VOL. LVII.

CONTENTS.

VIRGIL, TASSO, AND RAPHAEL, 401

PING-KEE'S VIEW OF THE STAGE, 415

THE MIDNIGHT WATCH, 424

VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION, 448

MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART XVI., 461

BETHAM'S ETRURIA CELTICA, 474

SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS: BEING A SEQUEL TO THE CONFESSIONS OF AN
ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, 489

NORTH'S SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS. NO. III.--DRYDEN, 503

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLIV. APRIL, 1845. VOL. LVII.

VIRGIL, TASSO, AND RAPHAEL.

Originality of conception and fidelity of observation in general mark the
efforts of genius in the earlier ages of society; and it is then,
accordingly, that those creative minds appear which stamp their own
impress upon the character of a whole people, and communicate to their
literature, in the most distant periods, a certain train of thought, a
certain class of images, a certain family resemblance. Homer, Phidias,