The writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected ed, Volume 5 |
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Abishag answer assured Ballad-Singer beautiful believe benevolent bill Bite bless bottle Brahmin Brassly Cæsar Canaan church Churchwarden Cockney consider creature cried daily dear boy death Debtor dignity Diner-Out DOUGLAS JERROLD earth eyes face father feel fellow fingers fortune friendship gentleman give glory gold golden governess hand happy heard heart Hence honour hope human John Balance JOHN LEECH labour lady LETTER living London look madam marriage matter mind mine-a Moidore Molly Money-Lender moral nature never nevertheless Newgate Calendar once pass Pawnbroker Pew-Opener philosophy Plutus Ponto poor Postman pounds present Printer's Devil PUNCH reader respectable rich servant shilling smile smock-frocks sort soul speak Spikenard spirit sure sweet tell thing thought thousand toad tradesman true truth turn Usbecks vulgar walk wealth whilst wife woman words wretch Young Lord
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Page 39 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 232 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid...
Page 218 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 76 - ... burial they might send a painter to his vault, and if they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death unto the life: they did so, and found his face half eaten, and his midriff and backbone full of serpents; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors.
Page 203 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 292 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight, Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds...
Page 264 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Page 50 - Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value : but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their lustre ; and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Page 251 - ... a serf out upon a holiday, — a slave to be reclaimed at any instant by his owner, the creditor ? My son, if poor, see wine in the running spring ; let thy mouth water at a last week's roll; think a threadbare coat the ' only wear'; and acknowledge a whitewashed garret the fittest housing place for a gentleman : do this, and flee debt. So shall thy heart be at peace and the sheriff be confounded.
Page 259 - I not eulogised as the first poet who, seeking into the hidden recesses of resemblances, had likened a " virgin " to an ungathered flower 1 " Was I not smeared from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot...