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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Evening arrived ; Mr. Walton hurried them all off much before the time ; and the party proceeded to the Lecture Room . It was half full already ; three or four placards were pasted upon the walls , on the purport of which the audience ...
Evening arrived ; Mr. Walton hurried them all off much before the time ; and the party proceeded to the Lecture Room . It was half full already ; three or four placards were pasted upon the walls , on the purport of which the audience ...
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Within two rows of Mr. Walton's party they descried Harding , who was listening to the earnest conversation of a man at his side , apparently a shipwright dressed in his Sunday clothes . Archer and Mary were both about to make signs of ...
Within two rows of Mr. Walton's party they descried Harding , who was listening to the earnest conversation of a man at his side , apparently a shipwright dressed in his Sunday clothes . Archer and Mary were both about to make signs of ...
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The party had only time to exchange tokens of recognition and greeting — Mr . Walton shaking his hand towards him with most cordial gesticulations — when the Lecturer entered the room , and everybody called all the rest of the audience ...
The party had only time to exchange tokens of recognition and greeting — Mr . Walton shaking his hand towards him with most cordial gesticulations — when the Lecturer entered the room , and everybody called all the rest of the audience ...
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They bore him safely to the side of Mr. Walton , and they then endeavoured to make a passage out for the whole of their party . In their efforts Archer was thrown down between two oak forms ; Harding instantly left the poor Lecturer ...
They bore him safely to the side of Mr. Walton , and they then endeavoured to make a passage out for the whole of their party . In their efforts Archer was thrown down between two oak forms ; Harding instantly left the poor Lecturer ...
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Miss Lloyd having inquired very kindly after Harding , a party was fixed for the next day to go to the Dock - yard . This party was increased by the proposal of several of their friends to accompany them , including Mr. Carl Kohl ...
Miss Lloyd having inquired very kindly after Harding , a party was fixed for the next day to go to the Dock - yard . This party was increased by the proposal of several of their friends to accompany them , including Mr. Carl Kohl ...
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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...