Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 3Punch Office, 1846 Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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... thought - some damnable temptation . There was he with death in his two little hands - there was he with a terrible curiosity growing in his features : his lips trembled , and he shifted uneasily on his feet ; he breathed hard ; he ...
... thought - some damnable temptation . There was he with death in his two little hands - there was he with a terrible curiosity growing in his features : his lips trembled , and he shifted uneasily on his feet ; he breathed hard ; he ...
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... thought Hercules some very famous tapster , and that certain London hostelries known as Hercules ' Pillars merely eternized his reputation . We forget , too , the name of the anti- quary who wrote a very thick book , proving that the ...
... thought Hercules some very famous tapster , and that certain London hostelries known as Hercules ' Pillars merely eternized his reputation . We forget , too , the name of the anti- quary who wrote a very thick book , proving that the ...
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... thoughts of many a man , who hoards and hoards , as though every bit of gold was , as the lawyers have it , seizin ... thought he would hold out to Mr. Tangle the advantage of accompanying him . Whereupon , he tried the attorney's door ...
... thoughts of many a man , who hoards and hoards , as though every bit of gold was , as the lawyers have it , seizin ... thought he would hold out to Mr. Tangle the advantage of accompanying him . Whereupon , he tried the attorney's door ...
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... thought some good fairy might replace the treasure there , even while he looked . -Thus , looking one way , and seeking his raiment in divers others , he brought his head two or three times in roughest companionship with the bed - post ...
... thought some good fairy might replace the treasure there , even while he looked . -Thus , looking one way , and seeking his raiment in divers others , he brought his head two or three times in roughest companionship with the bed - post ...
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... thought in reality very so - so , by people who cannot admire anything lower than an Alp , or nearer home than Italy ... thoughts in sweet village poems - I would say nearly as good as Burns ' , only I am rather afraid of some Scotch ...
... thought in reality very so - so , by people who cannot admire anything lower than an Alp , or nearer home than Italy ... thoughts in sweet village poems - I would say nearly as good as Burns ' , only I am rather afraid of some Scotch ...
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Page 371 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 225 - I create the fruit of the lips; " Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near," saith the Lord;
Page 445 - Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Page 372 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ) Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
Page 372 - Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Page 254 - That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance; and, in the female world, . any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured.
Page 70 - 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 154 - I was dead tired," said Forbes, from whose lips I had this story. "Not a word of my despatch was written, and I had news for which I knew the world was waiting — news on which the fate of an empire and the fortunes of half Europe depended. And it was as much as I could do to keep my eyes open, or sit up in the chair into which I had dropped.
Page 562 - But in Oliver's time, as I say, there was still belief in the judgments of God ; in Oliver's time, there was yet no distracted jargon of 'abolishing capital punishments,' of JeanJacques philanthropy, and universal rose-water in this world still so full of sin.
Page 163 - This folio of four pages, happy work ! Which not e'en critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention, while I read, Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair, Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break; What is it, but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge, That tempts Ambition.