Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 1Douglas Jerrold Punch Office, 1845 - English periodicals Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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Page 1
... eyes when they would take a bright internal look - might in a trice discover the family tree ; now complacently following its branches as they waved towards the court - end of the town , and now avoiding them as they struck towards ...
... eyes when they would take a bright internal look - might in a trice discover the family tree ; now complacently following its branches as they waved towards the court - end of the town , and now avoiding them as they struck towards ...
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... eyes of many a wretch , a sweet deliverer . It was a time when the very poor , barred from the commonest things of earth , take strange counsel with them- selves , and in the deep humility of destitution , believe they are the burden ...
... eyes of many a wretch , a sweet deliverer . It was a time when the very poor , barred from the commonest things of earth , take strange counsel with them- selves , and in the deep humility of destitution , believe they are the burden ...
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... eyes of her helpmate . She had already conned and got by heart twenty different arguments to prove the exceed- ing comfort - nay , the ultimate profit , the child would be to them . And with these arguments simmering in her head , she ...
... eyes of her helpmate . She had already conned and got by heart twenty different arguments to prove the exceed- ing comfort - nay , the ultimate profit , the child would be to them . And with these arguments simmering in her head , she ...
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... eye- brows , clubbing together , could not have mustered fifty hairs between them . His small , deep - set black eyes - truly black , for there seemed no white to them were the lamps that lighted up with quick and various expression ...
... eye- brows , clubbing together , could not have mustered fifty hairs between them . His small , deep - set black eyes - truly black , for there seemed no white to them were the lamps that lighted up with quick and various expression ...
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... young ones are famishing , while he waits the relieving officer's convenience ; or the terrible curses of those who perish in their pride rather than submit to the mercies of the 66 66 workhouse . * But our eyes are weary -- our 22 22.
... young ones are famishing , while he waits the relieving officer's convenience ; or the terrible curses of those who perish in their pride rather than submit to the mercies of the 66 66 workhouse . * But our eyes are weary -- our 22 22.
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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 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 nattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, hie j'acet!
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 219 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 84 - ... happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which hath interest in nothing but in the gravel that fills his mouth. He holds a glass before the eyes of the most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge It.
Page 493 - When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Page 458 - For when the tenant shall make homage to his lord he shall be ungirt, and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit, and the tenant shall kneel before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord, and shall say...
Page 528 - Nature ! Healest thy wandering and distempered child: Thou pourest on him thy soft influences, Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets; Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters ! Till he relent, and can no more endure To be a jarring and a dissonant thing Amid this general dance and minstrelsy; But, bursting into tears, wins back his way, His angry spirit healed and harmonized By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
Page 176 - ... one. What I could not say myself on this point, I got said through women ; through Madame Busche, and afterwards through Mrs. Harcourt. It is remarkable how amazingly on this point her education has been neglected, and how much her mother, although an Englishwoman, was inattentive to it.