Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 1Douglas Jerrold Punch Office, 1845 - English periodicals Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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... turning himself round , headed the watch ; and motioning to the woman to show the way , he slowly led his fellows down the street . In due time , they arrived at the spot . " Froze to death ? " cried Drizzle doubtingly , holding his ...
... turning himself round , headed the watch ; and motioning to the woman to show the way , he slowly led his fellows down the street . In due time , they arrived at the spot . " Froze to death ? " cried Drizzle doubtingly , holding his ...
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... turned to his companions for counsel- " and what are we to do with her ? " " We can't take her to the workhouse , " said one , " it's past the hour . " " Past the hour ! " exclaimed Mrs. Aniseed , still hugging and warming the babe at ...
... turned to his companions for counsel- " and what are we to do with her ? " " We can't take her to the workhouse , " said one , " it's past the hour . " " Past the hour ! " exclaimed Mrs. Aniseed , still hugging and warming the babe at ...
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... turning his eye towards the partner of his bosom and his hearth . And thus , complacently whiffing smoke from a ruin of a pipe , he continued to stare at the coals , and talk : " If I did n't think somebody had run away with you . I've ...
... turning his eye towards the partner of his bosom and his hearth . And thus , complacently whiffing smoke from a ruin of a pipe , he continued to stare at the coals , and talk : " If I did n't think somebody had run away with you . I've ...
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... turning round , and looking in the fire , he said to himself , " it is like little Dick . " Though late when she went ... turned himself round , and with his elbows upon his knees , looked thoughtfully down upon the child . NO . I. VOL ...
... turning round , and looking in the fire , he said to himself , " it is like little Dick . " Though late when she went ... turned himself round , and with his elbows upon his knees , looked thoughtfully down upon the child . NO . I. VOL ...
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... turning society into one grand workshop ; and there , with unabating activity and unflinching purpose , examining and pulling to pieces whatever has ceased to be useful or suitable to the work he has in hand - that of accumulating ...
... turning society into one grand workshop ; and there , with unabating activity and unflinching purpose , examining and pulling to pieces whatever has ceased to be useful or suitable to the work he has in hand - that of accumulating ...
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Page 187 - Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe: And if then you doe not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.
Page 340 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Page 186 - Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
Page 219 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 177 - Sir, had you not better have a glass of water ?' Upon which he, much out of humour, said with an oath : ' No. I will go directly to the Queen :
Page 84 - ... happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which hath interest in nothing but in the gravel that fills his mouth. He holds a glass before the eyes of the most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge It.
Page 561 - The gaping chinks admitted every blast; the leaning chimneys had lost half their original height ; the rotten rafters were evidently misplaced ; while in many instances the thatch, yawning in some parts to admit the wind and wet, and in all utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looked more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage.
Page 526 - With other ministrations thou, O Nature ! Healest thy wandering and distempered child : Thou pourest on him thy soft influences, Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets ; Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters ! Till he relent, and can no more endure To be a jarring and a dissonant thing Amid this general dance and minstrelsy ; But, bursting into tears, wins back his way, His angry spirit healed and harmonized By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
Page 85 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 83 - ... many, that I might have been more pleasing to the reader, if I had written the story of mine own times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another.