Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 4Douglas Jerrold Punch Office, 1846 - English periodicals Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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... strange harmonies that filled her heart to overflowing -that took her away into another world - that brought sweet tears into her eyes and made her think ( she had never thought so before ) that there was really something besides the ...
... strange harmonies that filled her heart to overflowing -that took her away into another world - that brought sweet tears into her eyes and made her think ( she had never thought so before ) that there was really something besides the ...
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... strange- looking man , that has just stepped down from the organ - loft . He is strangely dressed , and has a haggard , unnatural countenance , though marked and sensitive ; a chorister's surplice twisted round his head for the nonce ...
... strange- looking man , that has just stepped down from the organ - loft . He is strangely dressed , and has a haggard , unnatural countenance , though marked and sensitive ; a chorister's surplice twisted round his head for the nonce ...
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... strange nor rare ; Your garden flaunters burn with hues That it may never wear ; Yet on your garden's rarest blooms No eyes may ever set With more delight than mine on yours , My box of Mignonette . Why do I prize my Mignonette , That ...
... strange nor rare ; Your garden flaunters burn with hues That it may never wear ; Yet on your garden's rarest blooms No eyes may ever set With more delight than mine on yours , My box of Mignonette . Why do I prize my Mignonette , That ...
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... strange it may seem in the present day . Parties otherwise strongly opposed to each other in their political and so - called religious notions , all agreed in this decision , that the people should be kept in ignorance . This may appear ...
... strange it may seem in the present day . Parties otherwise strongly opposed to each other in their political and so - called religious notions , all agreed in this decision , that the people should be kept in ignorance . This may appear ...
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... strange to say , Master Solomon Soundcap was the only apologist to be found in the parish , whenever his neighbours uttered their indignant complaints against Crinkum Crankum's displays of despotic 76 CRINKUM CRANKUM .
... strange to say , Master Solomon Soundcap was the only apologist to be found in the parish , whenever his neighbours uttered their indignant complaints against Crinkum Crankum's displays of despotic 76 CRINKUM CRANKUM .
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Page 35 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the Last Days.
Page 198 - Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage and hounds...
Page 379 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 198 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Page 47 - He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
Page 471 - Wit and Humour. Selected from the English Poets. With an Illustrative Essay and Critical Comments.
Page 186 - The Debater ; a Series of Complete Debates, Outlines of Debates, and Questions for Discussion. *By F. ROWTON. Fcp.
Page 474 - Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner; the flashing of an artificial light from one object to another, disclosing some unexpected resemblance or connection. It is the detection of likeness in unlikeness, of sympathy in antipathy, or of the extreme points of antipathies themselves, made friends by the very merriment of their introduction.
Page 47 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 46 - ... his views — or he could turn any portion of them to account for the purpose of illustrating his theme, or enriching his diction.