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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Do come in at once ; don't stand peeping at me in that manner . The man came in , apparently very much on his guard not to give offence , or commit any impropriety . He closed the door softly behind him . “ Now , sir , ” said Mr. Walton ...
Do come in at once ; don't stand peeping at me in that manner . The man came in , apparently very much on his guard not to give offence , or commit any impropriety . He closed the door softly behind him . “ Now , sir , ” said Mr. Walton ...
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Mr. Walton at once agreed , adding that he had no doubt but his daughter would like to go , of all things , as she had just received several large books from Comerford's library , and the Literary and Philosophical Institution ...
Mr. Walton at once agreed , adding that he had no doubt but his daughter would like to go , of all things , as she had just received several large books from Comerford's library , and the Literary and Philosophical Institution ...
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He has spoken of it to my daughter once or twice while I was reading the newspaper . I am much interested in you — as indeed I ought to be — and I have something to say about all this . Mr. Archer is , no doubt , a highly - informed man ...
He has spoken of it to my daughter once or twice while I was reading the newspaper . I am much interested in you — as indeed I ought to be — and I have something to say about all this . Mr. Archer is , no doubt , a highly - informed man ...
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—and my left boot put me in an agony once or twice this morning . “ To commence our operations by using the designs of a halfmad German architect , who believes in magic , and cannot speak 6 six words of English , will never do .
—and my left boot put me in an agony once or twice this morning . “ To commence our operations by using the designs of a halfmad German architect , who believes in magic , and cannot speak 6 six words of English , will never do .
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... and women too ; Look upon them once again , Scarce the different sex you know . Men we have for whom the helm Weighs too heavy.
... and women too ; Look upon them once again , Scarce the different sex you know . Men we have for whom the helm Weighs too heavy.
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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...
Bibliographic information
| 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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