Punch, Volume 170

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Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman
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Page 76 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 543 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 323 - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
Page 570 - What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
Page 97 - Even his indolent Amusement of playing with his Dogs and feeding his Ducks in St. James's Park, (which I have seen him do) made the common People adore him, and consequently overlook in him what, in a Prince of a different Temper, they might have been out of humour at.
Page 358 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Page 321 - I SING a long-neglected dame. Let plays and poets all proclaim The wonder of the Mother's name And even that of Granny ; Let others tell with loud hurrahs The general praises of Papas — I hymn the Mother of Mammas, I sing the British Nanny. Not every pink and girlish thing That pushes round a pram, The ancient rock-like NURSE I sing, Britannia's virgin dam, That, old as mountains and as stout, From child to child is passed about Till, childless yet, she passes out, The lonely British Nanny. For...
Page 200 - ... that. The idea is that as for a very good reason anything can be chosen the choice is the choice is included. After contradiction it is desirable. In any accidental case no incident no repetition no darker thoughts can be united again. Again and again. In plenty of cases in union there is strength. Can any one in thinking of how presently it is as if it were in the midst of more attention can any one thinking of how to present it easily can any one really partake in saying so.
Page 173 - I dreamt last night that Shakespeare's ghost Sat for a Civil Service post. The English paper of the year Contained a question on King Lear.
Page 253 - Spam's renewed agitation for a permanent seat on the Council of the League of Nations and her claim to Tangier, put forward on August 15.

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