Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 3Punch Office, 1845 Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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... mean the body , ma'am . " The young lady , for a moment , shrank back in terror ; and then , as though reproving herself for the weakness , she rapidly passed into the room , followed by her elder companion . At the same instant , the ...
... mean the body , ma'am . " The young lady , for a moment , shrank back in terror ; and then , as though reproving herself for the weakness , she rapidly passed into the room , followed by her elder companion . At the same instant , the ...
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... mean , most pusillanimous insinuation that when a woman wears a most beautiful gown , she desires that the eyes of all the world may hang upon it . This we take to be the meaning of but we are balancing the feather again ; and here is ...
... mean , most pusillanimous insinuation that when a woman wears a most beautiful gown , she desires that the eyes of all the world may hang upon it . This we take to be the meaning of but we are balancing the feather again ; and here is ...
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... mean materials than honest Crambe could conceive a lord mayor without his chain and gown . We heard our misanthrope talk , when no stranger was by . His voice swelled with the noblest predictions for humanity ; his heart beat high with ...
... mean materials than honest Crambe could conceive a lord mayor without his chain and gown . We heard our misanthrope talk , when no stranger was by . His voice swelled with the noblest predictions for humanity ; his heart beat high with ...
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... means that ninepence per week suffices to keep the life and soul of a mere pauper together is the reverse of an evanescent theory ; it is , in Scotland , philosophised and insisted on . Some say this magnificent income is quite enough ...
... means that ninepence per week suffices to keep the life and soul of a mere pauper together is the reverse of an evanescent theory ; it is , in Scotland , philosophised and insisted on . Some say this magnificent income is quite enough ...
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... Mean- while , I expect thou wilt not object to eat some dinner . Please to follow me . I am sorry one of thy age should have to come out on such an errand on the Sabbath - day . " And so saying , Mistress Gotobed opened a door into a ...
... Mean- while , I expect thou wilt not object to eat some dinner . Please to follow me . I am sorry one of thy age should have to come out on such an errand on the Sabbath - day . " And so saying , Mistress Gotobed opened a door into a ...
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Page 455 - History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.
Page 473 - I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet.
Page 261 - And busily gan for the soules pray Of them that gave him <25> wherewith to scholay* Of study took he moste care and heed. Not one word spake he more than was need; And that was said in form and reverence, And short and quick, and full of high sentence. Sounding in moral virtue was his speech, And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Page 90 - All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from the north-west to the south-east point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thousand and eighty...
Page 365 - Be it known, and without doubt unto you, that we all are, and every one of us, obedient subjects to the Church of God, and to the Pope of Rome, and to every godly Christian, to love every one in his degree in perfect charity, and to help every one of them, by word and deed, to...
Page 547 - Yea, it not only maketh things past, present ; but enableth one to make a rational conjecture of things to come. For this world affordeth no new accidents, but in the same sense wherein we call it a new moon, which is the old one in another shape, and yet no other than what hath been formerly. Old actions return again, furbished over with some new and different Circumstances.
Page 566 - Jones describes an oriental MS. in which the name of Mohammed was fancifully adorned with a garland of tulips and carnations, painted in the brightest colours. The favourite works of the Persians are written on fine silky paper, the ground of which is often powdered with gold or silver dust ; the leaves are frequently illuminated, and the whole book is sometimes perfumed with essence of roses or sandal wood. The Romans had several sorts of paper...
Page 135 - ... in itself declaratory of the poet's object and aim, partakes of this bond, or principle of coalescence, in a very peculiar degree. It is, indeed, a fabric of the most buoyant and aerial texture, floating as it were between earth and heaven, and tinted with all the magic colouring of the rainbow, " The earth hath bubbles as the water has, And this is of them.
Page 91 - The advantage of receiving the earliest intelligence, and of conveying their orders with celerity, induced the emperors to establish throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts.
Page 181 - Gervase. land, to whom it chiefly belongs to elect kings and ordain them, having yesterday deliberated on this great cause in private, and invoked, as is fitting, the direction of the Holy Spirit, did, and do, elect Matilda, the daughter of the pacific, rich, glorious, good, and incomparable King Henry, to be sovereign lady of England and Normandy.