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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... Perhaps the most decisive evidence yet furnished , of the utter rottenness of the base of our manufacturing system , is that given by the Marquis of Normanby , all honour to him for his plain speaking ! in a speech just delivered , at a ...
... Perhaps the most decisive evidence yet furnished , of the utter rottenness of the base of our manufacturing system , is that given by the Marquis of Normanby , all honour to him for his plain speaking ! in a speech just delivered , at a ...
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... perhaps Lancashire borrows strength from despair , and laughs at fate ? Its artisans being at the bottom , how can they sink lower ? And we may here observe , that since we have a system so ingeniously constructed as to make wealth the ...
... perhaps Lancashire borrows strength from despair , and laughs at fate ? Its artisans being at the bottom , how can they sink lower ? And we may here observe , that since we have a system so ingeniously constructed as to make wealth the ...
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... perhaps has been right in so doing . No honest one , framed in the spirit of an undoubting love of truth , and calculated to inculcate such love before all other things ( creeds not excluded , which may change , Truth never ) , has been ...
... perhaps has been right in so doing . No honest one , framed in the spirit of an undoubting love of truth , and calculated to inculcate such love before all other things ( creeds not excluded , which may change , Truth never ) , has been ...
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... Perhaps suggested by this one marvel , were other and mightier marvels of which rumours were daily reaching his ear ; - perhaps but now he started from his momentary visions , and again busied himself in the practical duties of the ...
... Perhaps suggested by this one marvel , were other and mightier marvels of which rumours were daily reaching his ear ; - perhaps but now he started from his momentary visions , and again busied himself in the practical duties of the ...
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... perhaps to sigh for its braveries- to become animated with its spirit ; perhaps to contemn and spurn both . So We have spoken of the admiration , of the excitement generated in an English crowd , by the splendour of military spectacle ...
... perhaps to sigh for its braveries- to become animated with its spirit ; perhaps to contemn and spurn both . So We have spoken of the admiration , of the excitement generated in an English crowd , by the splendour of military spectacle ...
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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...