Punch, Volume 230Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1956 - English wit and humor |
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Page 164
... English poetry into more English . I laid aside my Liddell and Scott and reached lovingly for my Roget . Whole sections in this huge com- pendium of English synonyms are of course the purest poetry per se . An example ? Turn to variants ...
... English poetry into more English . I laid aside my Liddell and Scott and reached lovingly for my Roget . Whole sections in this huge com- pendium of English synonyms are of course the purest poetry per se . An example ? Turn to variants ...
Page 194
... English- women with their dogs and their cats and their endless complaints . The horse - meat was good enough for French men but not for English dogs , was that it ? Even an English dog was of more importance than a French man , was ...
... English- women with their dogs and their cats and their endless complaints . The horse - meat was good enough for French men but not for English dogs , was that it ? Even an English dog was of more importance than a French man , was ...
Page 349
... English Corporal , hap- pened to come in at that moment to summon us to the evening Rollcall . While Ludwig , blond and debonair , distracted his attention by turning cart- wheels , I managed to steal Fred's braces and trousers , which ...
... English Corporal , hap- pened to come in at that moment to summon us to the evening Rollcall . While Ludwig , blond and debonair , distracted his attention by turning cart- wheels , I managed to steal Fred's braces and trousers , which ...
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