Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 1Punch Office, 1845 Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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... believe that we are pretty sure of his father : but at once lose ourselves , seeking his grandsire . We are immediately in a genealogical fog , without even a link's end from the Herald's office to guide us . True it is , we might if we ...
... believe that we are pretty sure of his father : but at once lose ourselves , seeking his grandsire . We are immediately in a genealogical fog , without even a link's end from the Herald's office to guide us . True it is , we might if we ...
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... believe us , dear reader , for no catchpenny reason whatever . We do not say that a three - legged oaken stool , is a finer , more commodious chattel than a gilded chair ; but , in the genealogy of household moveables , sure we are it ...
... believe us , dear reader , for no catchpenny reason whatever . We do not say that a three - legged oaken stool , is a finer , more commodious chattel than a gilded chair ; but , in the genealogy of household moveables , sure we are it ...
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... believe they are the burden and the offal of the world . It was a time , when the easy , comfortable man , touched with finest sense of human suffering , gives from his abundance ; and , whilst bestowing , feels almost a shame that with ...
... believe they are the burden and the offal of the world . It was a time , when the easy , comfortable man , touched with finest sense of human suffering , gives from his abundance ; and , whilst bestowing , feels almost a shame that with ...
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... believe it . More : we believe that he was quite contented with the creed . There are times , however , when ugliness may steal a look - a tint from beauty . We believe that no woman - if she marry for love - let her be ugly as Sibyl ...
... believe it . More : we believe that he was quite contented with the creed . There are times , however , when ugliness may steal a look - a tint from beauty . We believe that no woman - if she marry for love - let her be ugly as Sibyl ...
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... believe , that the Spirit of the age , conscious of the unprecedented magnitude of the evils that afflict and weigh down humanity , and seeing the insufficiency of those ordinary processes of renovation that are ever quietly going on ...
... believe , that the Spirit of the age , conscious of the unprecedented magnitude of the evils that afflict and weigh down humanity , and seeing the insufficiency of those ordinary processes of renovation that are ever quietly going on ...
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Page 187 - Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe: And if then you doe not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.
Page 340 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 280 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 186 - Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
Page 177 - Sir, had you not better have a glass of water ?' — upon which he, much out of humour, said, with an oath, ' No ; I will go directly to the queen,
Page 174 - Caroline much embarrassed on my first being presented to her — pretty face — not expressive of softness — her figure not graceful — fine eyes — good hand — tolerable teeth, but going — fair hair and light eyebrows, good bust — short, with what the French call " des t:paules impertinentes." Vastly happy with her future expectations
Page 187 - The rounded world is fair to see, Nine times folded in mystery: Though baffled seers cannot impart The secret of its laboring heart, Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast, And all is clear from east to west.
Page 83 - It will be said by many that I might have been more pleasing to the reader if I had written the story of mine own times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another. To this I answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries.
Page 85 - O eloquent, just and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition...
Page 528 - This is the process of our love and wisdom To each poor brother who offends against us — Most innocent, perhaps — and what if guilty? Is this the only cure ! Merciful God ! Each pore and natural outlet...