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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... passed a very pleasant hour with Harding , who arrived at the time specified ; and after a little preliminary conversation on Canada , the shipwreck , and their visit , their whole talk was of boat - building , rowing , and sailing ...
... passed a very pleasant hour with Harding , who arrived at the time specified ; and after a little preliminary conversation on Canada , the shipwreck , and their visit , their whole talk was of boat - building , rowing , and sailing ...
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... passed . Time was , when they raised their voices against Education of the People . Anarchy , they preached , was to come in with the Alphabet : the humbler classes , taught to read and write , would , thenceforth and for ever , declare ...
... passed . Time was , when they raised their voices against Education of the People . Anarchy , they preached , was to come in with the Alphabet : the humbler classes , taught to read and write , would , thenceforth and for ever , declare ...
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... passing away from us , as well as our profligacy in confounding " v's " and " w's , " and and in tacking " r's to the feminine termination of certain words . Those who desire to comfort their self - consequence by the sight of a genteel ...
... passing away from us , as well as our profligacy in confounding " v's " and " w's , " and and in tacking " r's to the feminine termination of certain words . Those who desire to comfort their self - consequence by the sight of a genteel ...
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... passed over it ! " " There are , of course , many worthy souls belonging to such a large company , who will call my fancies " finical , and set their faces against " trumpery " . content if they get the paper they love to grumble over ...
... passed over it ! " " There are , of course , many worthy souls belonging to such a large company , who will call my fancies " finical , and set their faces against " trumpery " . content if they get the paper they love to grumble over ...
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... passed me , widowed , by ! Yet I was beautiful ! My brow Was like the famed Egyptian Queen ; Rounded these cheeks - so hollow now ! Beaming , these tear - dimm'd eyes have been , And shone upon my port and face The beauty of my lofty ...
... passed me , widowed , by ! Yet I was beautiful ! My brow Was like the famed Egyptian Queen ; Rounded these cheeks - so hollow now ! Beaming , these tear - dimm'd eyes have been , And shone upon my port and face The beauty of my lofty ...
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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...