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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You gave me a black eye with your elbow at the lecture - room the other night . ” The party left Harding in considerable glee at this encounter with Mr. Downs , and then went to visit some of the machinery works .
You gave me a black eye with your elbow at the lecture - room the other night . ” The party left Harding in considerable glee at this encounter with Mr. Downs , and then went to visit some of the machinery works .
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... though with difficulty suppressing a smile ; and when Mr. Walton pressed his hand in a fatherly manner and took leave of him for the night , that worthy gentleman felt as if he had done Harding a signal service which would last him ...
... though with difficulty suppressing a smile ; and when Mr. Walton pressed his hand in a fatherly manner and took leave of him for the night , that worthy gentleman felt as if he had done Harding a signal service which would last him ...
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... and danced , and jested light , Braided with flowers my locks of night , And strove to deck my Southern face With the fair Flemings ' blooming grace : For they could please the roving eye Of him who passed me , widowed , by !
... and danced , and jested light , Braided with flowers my locks of night , And strove to deck my Southern face With the fair Flemings ' blooming grace : For they could please the roving eye Of him who passed me , widowed , by !
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answer , — “ I was at the theatre one night " “ And what had a respectable young woman like thee — the mother of a small child , ” interrupted the kindly , but straight - laced Friend“ to be doing in such a place ?
answer , — “ I was at the theatre one night " “ And what had a respectable young woman like thee — the mother of a small child , ” interrupted the kindly , but straight - laced Friend“ to be doing in such a place ?
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She had taken a whole house in the City , and sate up all night there— " to see a Hanging ! We were amazingly entertained by her adventures : since , with all her ill - directed industry to see , and to snatch , and to parade her good ...
She had taken a whole house in the City , and sate up all night there— " to see a Hanging ! We were amazingly entertained by her adventures : since , with all her ill - directed industry to see , and to snatch , and to parade her good ...
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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...
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| Title | Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6 |
| Editor | Douglas Jerrold |
| Publisher | Punch Office, 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2007 |
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