Punch, Volume 156Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1919 - Caricatures and cartoons |
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Page 390 - Still as they thirsted scoop the brimming stream; Nor gentle purpose, nor endearing smiles Wanted, nor youthful dalliance, as beseems Fair couple, linked in happy nuptial league, Alone as they. About them frisking played All beasts of the earth, since wild, and of all chase, In wood or wilderness, forest or den...
Page 178 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Page 147 - tis little joy To know I'm farther off from- Heaven Than when I was a boy.
Page 72 - ... in the sphere of civil government the duty of investigation and thought, as preliminary to action, might with great advantage be more definitely recognised.
Page 390 - O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff or Gulliver ! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais...
Page 352 - Here lie the first soldiers of the republic of the United States to fall on the soil of France for liberty and justice.
Page 454 - If the confession has been made before the proceedings have been commenced, it is most undesirable that an advocate to whom the confession has been...
Page 386 - Where are your Oranges? Where are your Lemons? What, are you silent now, Bells of St. Clement's? * You, of all bells that rang Once in old London, You, of all bells that sang, Utterly undone? You whom all children know Ere they know letters, Making Big Ben himself Call you his betters? Where are your lovely tones Fruitful and mellow, Full-flavoured orange-gold, Clear lemon-yellow? Ring again, sing again, Bells of St. Clement's! Call as you swing again, "Oranges! Lemons!
Page 131 - ... character, about the depth at which it keeps its real yearnings, about the perversity with which it disguises them, and its inability to show its feelings. We are, deep down, under all our lazy mentality, the most combative and competitive race in the world, with the exception perhaps of the American. This is at once a spiritual link with America, and yet one of the great barriers to friendship between the two peoples. We are not sure whether we are better men than Americans.
Page 326 - ... frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears, They donned their rubber mittens when they took him by the hand, And elected him a member of the Fumigated Band. Nowadays there are no Microbes in that garden where they play, For they bathe in pure formaldehyde a dozen times a day; They take their daily ration from a hygienic cup, The Baby, and the Bunny, and the Prophylactic Pup.