Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6Douglas Jerrold Punch Office, 1847 - English periodicals Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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Page 56
... better , if it be only a boat load of mere unknown , contemptible nobodies , which is hurled into the Thames . ensure the public safety on the Rails , Sidney Smith desiderated the burning of a Bishop . We shall be more moderate still ...
... better , if it be only a boat load of mere unknown , contemptible nobodies , which is hurled into the Thames . ensure the public safety on the Rails , Sidney Smith desiderated the burning of a Bishop . We shall be more moderate still ...
Page 81
... better rewarded now than ever they were , when they ate the bitter bread of royal and noble patronage . Unfortu- nately the Fine Arts have been tempted and perverted by the politi- cally great . Springing from nature for Music ...
... better rewarded now than ever they were , when they ate the bitter bread of royal and noble patronage . Unfortu- nately the Fine Arts have been tempted and perverted by the politi- cally great . Springing from nature for Music ...
Page 83
... better than those of the Scrutleys had been ; he was the son of a respectable physician , whose days had been cut short just when his family were half provided for , and he departed this life , leaving a wife and two grown - up ...
... better than those of the Scrutleys had been ; he was the son of a respectable physician , whose days had been cut short just when his family were half provided for , and he departed this life , leaving a wife and two grown - up ...
Page 86
... better dressed than was their wont , and far too proud to speak ; Mr. and Mrs. Scrutley , whose wrapt atten- tion was only interrupted to express their delight at seeing him restored to the bosom of his family ; the Honourable and ...
... better dressed than was their wont , and far too proud to speak ; Mr. and Mrs. Scrutley , whose wrapt atten- tion was only interrupted to express their delight at seeing him restored to the bosom of his family ; the Honourable and ...
Page 89
... better , and his effect more abundant and forcible . It may be said that every poet performs the same office , and to a certain extent this is true . But to the poet's office , Mr. Hunt has superadded the philanthropist's and the ...
... better , and his effect more abundant and forcible . It may be said that every poet performs the same office , and to a certain extent this is true . But to the poet's office , Mr. Hunt has superadded the philanthropist's and the ...
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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...