Punch, Volume 233Punch Publications Limited, 1957 - English wit and humor |
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... once a foreigne patterne is sett they imitate so well that they commonly exceed the original . " Yet when that most discerning art - lover Charles I imported Van Dyck and Rubens as Court painters he seems to have offered too heady a ...
... once a foreigne patterne is sett they imitate so well that they commonly exceed the original . " Yet when that most discerning art - lover Charles I imported Van Dyck and Rubens as Court painters he seems to have offered too heady a ...
Page 298
... once bitten , Who or what had ( that fatal once ) bitten him was never dis- closed . Some said that at an im- pressionable age he had been badly treated by the Stock Exchange , others that it was a woman from Dallas , Texas , who had ...
... once bitten , Who or what had ( that fatal once ) bitten him was never dis- closed . Some said that at an im- pressionable age he had been badly treated by the Stock Exchange , others that it was a woman from Dallas , Texas , who had ...
Page 355
... once the play- ground of a few eccentrics one of the most popular of escapes from the daily routine . One reason for this may be that , as the future shrinks , we prefer to look back down the long vista of the past . Then there is the ...
... once the play- ground of a few eccentrics one of the most popular of escapes from the daily routine . One reason for this may be that , as the future shrinks , we prefer to look back down the long vista of the past . Then there is the ...
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