 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1859 - 504 pages
...with twenty parts, and, unless he is wrong in his time, expects the first instalment at Christmas. Punch, I believe, holds its course . . . Nevertheless,...all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot be all a comic history of humanity. Some men would, I believe, write the Comic Sermon... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 782 pages
...conclusion. We find him thus writing to Dickens : ' Punch holds its course. I am convinced, however, that the world will get tired (at least, I hope so)...all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot be all a comic history of humanity. Some men would, I believe, write the Comic Sermon... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...unread. Douglas Jerrold, in one of his graver moods, once observed of this tendency: " I am convinced the world will get tired (at least I hope so) of this eternal guffaw about all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot be all a comic history, of... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - Novelists, English - 1872 - 502 pages
...which were the belongings of Chartists and demagogues in his time, were detestable to him. His was * "I am convinced that the world will get tired (at...all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot be all a comic history of humanity. Some men would, I believe, write the comic Sermon... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1876 - 448 pages
...breaches of all laws, human and divine. Douglas Jerrold once observed of this tendency, " I am convinced the world will get tired (at least I hope so) of this eternal guffaw about all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot be all a comic history of... | |
 | Joseph Hatton - English newspapers - 1882 - 274 pages
...doubt, from Blanchard Jerrold's Life of his father: — DOUGLAS JERROLD'S OPINION OF " PUNCH."— " Punch, I believe, holds its course. Nevertheless I...all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot all be a comic history of humanity. Some men would, I believe, write the Comic Sermon... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering 1 breath of passions. — Miss LE London. I am convinced the world will get tired, at least, I hope so, of this eternal guffaw about all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot be all comic historv of humanity.... | |
 | Marion Harry Spielmann - Caricatures and cartoons - 1895 - 632 pages
...occasion of the first of these books being announced that Douglas Jerrold wrote to Charles Dickens: " Punch, I believe, holds its course. . . . Nevertheless,...all things. After all, life has something serious in it. It cannot all be a comic history of humanity. Some men would, I believe, write a Comic Sermon... | |
 | Books - 1907 - 156 pages
...languages, and whosoever has mastered them is a scholar indeed. * * * Douglas Jerrold. — I am convinced the world will get tired (at least I hope so) of this eternal guffaw about all things. It cannot be all a comic history of humanity. Some men would, I believe, write a... | |
 | Martha Banta - Art - 2003 - 448 pages
..."Punch, I believe, holds its course. . . . Nonetheless, I do not very cordially agree with [Punch's] new spirit. I am convinced that the world will get...all things. After all, life has something serious in it. ... Surely the world will be sick of this blasphemy [laughter at social injustice]. . . . When,... | |
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Punch, I believe, holds its course. . . . Nevertheless, I do not very cordially agree with its new spirit. I am convinced that the world will get tired (at least I hope so) of this eternal guffaw at all things. After all, life has something serious in... 
