Punch's letters to his son, corrected and ed. [really written] by D. Jerrold |
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Punch's letters to his son, corrected and ed. [really written] by D. Jerrold Douglas William Jerrold Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1843 |
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Էջ 74 - tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Էջ 57 - ... shroud, the winding-sheet — the wet heavy clay, the worm and corruption .... have no more to do with you than with the hare that may nibble the grass above what once was yours : no more touch you than they touch the red-faced urchins making chains of Buttercups and daisies on a falsifying tombstone It is the vile literalness of people's brains that gives an unhandsomeness to the dead bones of men ; that makes them in the grave a part and parcel of the sentient thing. . . . We libel the sanctity...
Էջ 68 - ... The world, as at present constituted, could not go on without lying. And, I am convinced, it is only the full conviction of this fact that enables so many worthy, excellent people to club their little modicum of daily falsehood together, for the benevolent purpose of keeping the world upon its axis. For a moment, consider the effect produced in London alone, if from to-morrow morning, for one month only, every man, woman, and child were to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the...