Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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Such may live to swell his lay . Proud the dames of Athens move , Lone in wealth and slaves of state , Listless in the terraced grove , Poor in love , and weak in hate ; Stately formed , and decked with art , Jewelled though their ...
Such may live to swell his lay . Proud the dames of Athens move , Lone in wealth and slaves of state , Listless in the terraced grove , Poor in love , and weak in hate ; Stately formed , and decked with art , Jewelled though their ...
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“ We live in a vale of tears , " they say , “ and , therefore , you shall wipe your eyes on clouts as coarse as sail - cloths . ” Another set , it is true , deny the beauty 22 CLUB - CROTCHETS AND CHEAP COMFORTS .
“ We live in a vale of tears , " they say , “ and , therefore , you shall wipe your eyes on clouts as coarse as sail - cloths . ” Another set , it is true , deny the beauty 22 CLUB - CROTCHETS AND CHEAP COMFORTS .
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... the squeeze of jostling men and women , hurrying , in unthinking merry masses , on board the rocking and unstable boats — let him observe the conduct of the steam - boat functionaries jamming the live cargoes on board as though they ...
... the squeeze of jostling men and women , hurrying , in unthinking merry masses , on board the rocking and unstable boats — let him observe the conduct of the steam - boat functionaries jamming the live cargoes on board as though they ...
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“ We live in an artificial state of society , ” is a common assertion , though the boundaries between it and the natural state are not defined nor illustrated . In common language , Nature and Civilisation are opposed to each other ...
“ We live in an artificial state of society , ” is a common assertion , though the boundaries between it and the natural state are not defined nor illustrated . In common language , Nature and Civilisation are opposed to each other ...
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They cannot live without one another . The right hand might as well quarrel with the left , as the shipwright with the sailor , or the tanner with the shoemaker . Division of labour substitutes friendly and just relations , for jealousy ...
They cannot live without one another . The right hand might as well quarrel with the left , as the shipwright with the sailor , or the tanner with the shoemaker . Division of labour substitutes friendly and just relations , for jealousy ...
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Page 169 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 169 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 169 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old or middle-aged or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 548 - in which the conversation turned on the civil war, what could be conceived more impertinent than for a person to ask abruptly, What was the value of a Roman denarius ? On a little reflection, however, I was easily able to trace the train of thought which suggested the question : for, the original subject of discourse naturally introduced the history of the king, and of the treachery of those who surrendered his person to his enemies ; this again introduced the treachery of Judas Iscariot, and the...
Page 169 - Thus by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
Page 170 - ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe.
Page 226 - Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, And fevers into false creation ; — where, Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized ? In him alone. Can Nature show so fair...
Page 168 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...