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Puppets at Large: Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's ShowPuppets at Large: Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's ShowThe interior of Dulchester Cathedral. TimeAbout 12.30. The March sunshine slants in pale shafts through the clerestory windows, leaving the aisles in shadow. From without, the cawing of rooks and shouts of children at play...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887Self, wife, and Herbert started early to escape our kind-hearted, clear-headed admirers; so early, that I scarcely had time before leaving to write thirty post-cards, seventy-six pages of notes for my next magazine article, and...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 22, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 22, 1887And, be it said, the average audience is not at all averse to being harrowedprovided this is done with any science and refinement. When persons are met together for social enjoyment, nothing apparently affords them...
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Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 CONTENTS: CHARIVARIA. THE BRITISH DRAGON. UNWRITTEN LETTERS TO THE KAISER. A REGRETTABLE INCIDENT. THOUGHTS ON NEWSPAPERS. ABDUL: AN APPRECIATION. THE DYSPEPTIC'S DILEMMA. BALLADE OF BOOKS FOR THE WOUNDED. ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. A CONVENIENT CONSCIENCE....
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Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916 CONTENTS: CHARIVARIA. METHODS OF A GERMAN MISSIONARY. UNWRITTEN LETTERS TO THE KAISER. GRASS VALLEY ARMISTICE. SAINT GEORGE OF ENGLAND. GLORY O' ENGLAND. THE ROLLING STONE. ROUND ABOUT THE RESTAURANTS. ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. A NIGHT...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887He left the court with his colleagues at twenty minutes to one o'clock. He said nothing, but listened intently while the question of the Inquest was canvassed. Was it to be a verdict of Manslaughter...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887Turning To the Left.At a recent meeting of the Court of Common Council (in the teeth of a strong opposition of some of the members of the Board) it was decided to exclude strangers and...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893A day or two after the stirring events which I have related as taking place at Blobley-in-the-Marsh, and of which, it will be remembered, I was myself an astonished spectator, I happened to be travelling,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893"The churl in nature up and down" is perennial and ubiquitous. Like the god Vishnu, he has many avatars. Every new development of popular pastime (for instance) developes its own particular species of "Cad." Leech's...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893"Where are we to go?" he asked, taking out his watch. "You have been quarrelling for the last week, and I have given you till this hour. So get through your amendments as fast as...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893At a meeting of the International Maritime Congress "M. Gatto read a paper on Harbour Lights." Does this mean that one of the Adelphoi Gatti read the paper (extract from the play, or perhaps a...
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Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893To an impartial observer the public, philanthropic, and municipal attempts to honour the memory of the great and good, if sometimes mistaken, Earl of Shaftesbury, appear to have been singularly unfortunate. The West-End Avenue that...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 29th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 29th 1893Mr. Punch has much pleasure in recommending the following Prospectus to the notice of parents desirous of finding a thoroughly practical school where boys are educated according to the real requirements of modern life. The...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 ... "The room is full of celebrities. Do you see that tall woman in black, talking to the little old lady? That is Mrs. Arbuthnota woman of some importanceand the other is Charley's Aunt....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893"Humph! Julia may use your hand, but you will not trump mine," retorted the Oracle. "If revenants knew what nonsense is put into their spectral mouths by noodles and charlatans, they would never return to...
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Some of Æsop's Fables with Modern InstancesSome of Æsop's Fables with Modern InstancesSixteen of these Twenty Fables have been handed down to us in a Greek form: for these Halm's text has been used. As to the other fourNumber IX. is from Phaedrus, and retains a flavour of artificiality; Numbers...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887Londoners who like but are weary of the attractions of Eastend-on-Mud, and want a change, can scarcely do better than spend twenty-four hours in that rising watering-place Teapot Bay. I say advisedly "rising," because the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890Blethers. Another of Sir Poshbury's birthdays almost goneand my secret still untold! (Dodders.) I can't keep it up much longer ... Ha, here comes his Lordshiphe does look mortal bad, that he do! Miss Verbena...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. August 6, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. August 6, 1887.Now that your own particular theatrical adviser and follower, Mr. Nibbs, has left London for a trip abroad, I venture to address you on matters dramatic. I am the more desirous of so doing because,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887The story which I have to tell is more than strange. It is so terrible, so incredible, so entirely contrary to all that any ordinary reader of the London Journal or the "penny dreadfuls" has...
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