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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... spirit of the time ? What I have said lightly , I mean earnestly . The beautification of a resting - place for the weary — of a refuge for those of narrow fortunes - of a haunt to which the lonely resort for cheerful associations ...
... spirit of the time ? What I have said lightly , I mean earnestly . The beautification of a resting - place for the weary — of a refuge for those of narrow fortunes - of a haunt to which the lonely resort for cheerful associations ...
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It will be obvious in the above , that I have taken for granted that a better spirit will generally prevail than merely that hard determination to get the utmost penny's worth for a Member's penny , which makes some of our more august ...
It will be obvious in the above , that I have taken for granted that a better spirit will generally prevail than merely that hard determination to get the utmost penny's worth for a Member's penny , which makes some of our more august ...
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Ah me ! those weary days come back When I was on the mental rack , And sought in vain to charm and please , And smiled with spirit ill at ease ; And dressed , and danced , and jested light , Braided with flowers my locks of night ...
Ah me ! those weary days come back When I was on the mental rack , And sought in vain to charm and please , And smiled with spirit ill at ease ; And dressed , and danced , and jested light , Braided with flowers my locks of night ...
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My spirit struggles to departWhat can be worse than forty years Of raving , moaning , pain and tears ? Yet is my future dimm'd by fears ! Strike the loud harp ! my sole delight , And charm me to forget my woe , And let the organ's tones ...
My spirit struggles to departWhat can be worse than forty years Of raving , moaning , pain and tears ? Yet is my future dimm'd by fears ! Strike the loud harp ! my sole delight , And charm me to forget my woe , And let the organ's tones ...
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... forsaken its ancient standards , and discarded the spirit from its ancient Institutions . The Radical no less stoutly declares that it springs from the still incomplete destruction of ancient prejudices and effete Institutions .
... forsaken its ancient standards , and discarded the spirit from its ancient Institutions . The Radical no less stoutly declares that it springs from the still incomplete destruction of ancient prejudices and effete Institutions .
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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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