Punch, Volume 159Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1920 - Caricatures and cartoons |
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Page 376 - In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Page 92 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Page 260 - ... the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
Page 40 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Page 441 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 348 - The Sponge The sponge is not, as you suppose, A funny kind of weed; He lives below the deep blue sea, An animal, like you and me, Though not so good a breed. And when the sponges go to sleep The fearless diver dives; He prongs them with a cruel prong, And, what I think is rather wrong, He also prongs their wives. For I expect they love...
Page 453 - We went a little farther, where we observed ten men in a corner, very busie about two men's work, taking as much care that everyone should have his due proportion, of the labour, as so many thieves in making an exact division of their booty. The wonderful piece of difficulty, the whole number had to perform, was to drag along a stone of about three...
Page 40 - Acridiida is produced by friction of the hind legs against portions of the wings or wing-covers," but that is just the sort of statement which the scientific man thinks he can pass off on the public with impunity. Considering that stridulation takes place about every ten seconds, I calculate that the grasshopper must require a new set of wings every ten days. It would be more in keeping with the traditions of our public life if the scientific man simply confessed that he was baffled by this problem...
Page 362 - ... elsewhere insinuated or supposed ; the broad scheme of the book being everywhere the same, viz., that, for the establishment and maintenance of authority, all means may be resorted to ; and that the worst and most treacherous acts of the ruler, however unlawful in themselves, are justified by the wickedness and treachery of the governed. Such being the moral of the book, a question has arisen as to the intention of the writer, and a...
Page 213 - ... green, And pretends he is nothing at all. I wish I could change my complexion To purple or orange or red ; I wish I could look like the arm of a chair So nobody ever would know I was there, When they wanted to put me to bed. I wish I could be a chameleon, And look like a lily or rose ; I'd lie on the apples and peaches and pears, But not on Aunt Margaret's horrible chairs— I should have to be careful of those. The chameleon's life is confusing, He is used to adventure and pain ; But if ever...