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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... labour ? No. Then we trust we are not so wholly lost to the decencies of life , as to lie gratis , Nevertheless , we owe some explanation to the polite reader , for that we have given typographical precedence to St. Giles to the ...
... labour ? No. Then we trust we are not so wholly lost to the decencies of life , as to lie gratis , Nevertheless , we owe some explanation to the polite reader , for that we have given typographical precedence to St. Giles to the ...
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... labour , had reduced the labourers to a state of indefinitely prolonged starvation ; and at the same time , added to their hours of employment . Since then the spirit has learnt much , calculated to deepen his first impressions of ...
... labour , had reduced the labourers to a state of indefinitely prolonged starvation ; and at the same time , added to their hours of employment . Since then the spirit has learnt much , calculated to deepen his first impressions of ...
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... labours ; just as much below all his bodily and mental wants , as to leave him little better than a part of the machinery ; but , unfortunately , the least valuable , and therefore least cared for part . Alas ! the world is turned ...
... labours ; just as much below all his bodily and mental wants , as to leave him little better than a part of the machinery ; but , unfortunately , the least valuable , and therefore least cared for part . Alas ! the world is turned ...
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... labour , though he must live by it . He wants , and will obtain , happiness . And it gladdens one's heart to see how deeply the Spirit feels this ; how wisely he understands the conditions requisite to ensure such a consumma- tion ; how ...
... labour , though he must live by it . He wants , and will obtain , happiness . And it gladdens one's heart to see how deeply the Spirit feels this ; how wisely he understands the conditions requisite to ensure such a consumma- tion ; how ...
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... labours of our time . Alas ! densely ignorant are an immense proportion of the community . The somewhat irreverent story of the miner of the last century , who , on being interrogated by a missionary , concerning his knowledge of Jesus ...
... labours of our time . Alas ! densely ignorant are an immense proportion of the community . The somewhat irreverent story of the miner of the last century , who , on being interrogated by a missionary , concerning his knowledge of Jesus ...
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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.