Punch, Volume 102Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Owen Seaman, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1892 - English wit and humor |
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... once I always fly to , I use you , who excel . Ah ! yes , You take the cake , and so do I too ! Called to the Bar . Of course I am- The Bar of Soap . In all one's troubles , What more successful way to dam The flood of grief than ...
... once I always fly to , I use you , who excel . Ah ! yes , You take the cake , and so do I too ! Called to the Bar . Of course I am- The Bar of Soap . In all one's troubles , What more successful way to dam The flood of grief than ...
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... once ; It affected me with dizziness , like gazing from a height . I straddled like a duffer , and I wavered like a dunce , And my right hand felt a left one , and my left felt far from right . As I watched him place my ball with his ...
... once ; It affected me with dizziness , like gazing from a height . I straddled like a duffer , and I wavered like a dunce , And my right hand felt a left one , and my left felt far from right . As I watched him place my ball with his ...
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... once in four years may reverse - if they can , Which nobody can deny . Our vertebrę ( moral ) you first took away , And then once in four years you allotted a day For the polypus sex at top - sawyer to play . Which nobody can deny . O ...
... once in four years may reverse - if they can , Which nobody can deny . Our vertebrę ( moral ) you first took away , And then once in four years you allotted a day For the polypus sex at top - sawyer to play . Which nobody can deny . O ...
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... once I see him standing , calm and collected , on the very brink of the precipice . Is he strong enough to stop the ponies in their mad clockwork career , and save me , even yet ? How I will love him if he does ! An instant of sickening ...
... once I see him standing , calm and collected , on the very brink of the precipice . Is he strong enough to stop the ponies in their mad clockwork career , and save me , even yet ? How I will love him if he does ! An instant of sickening ...
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... once lovely features have now become . But JOSEPH ( who is leaning over my shoulder_and reading every word I write ) stops me here to assure me that I am lovelier than ever in his eyes . And really - I don't know - perhaps I am . And in ...
... once lovely features have now become . But JOSEPH ( who is leaning over my shoulder_and reading every word I write ) stops me here to assure me that I am lovelier than ever in his eyes . And really - I don't know - perhaps I am . And in ...
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Page 109 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes...
Page 316 - And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brushed and neat, He manfully did throw.
Page 316 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more.
Page 199 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 4 - Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame...
Page 248 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Page 312 - The lyon would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong gard Of her chast person, and a faythfull mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard...
Page 64 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Page 316 - Good lack ! quoth he, yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword When I do exercise.
Page 316 - And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.