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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841Mr. CHOKEPEAR is, to the finger-nails, a respectable man. The tax-gatherer was never known to call at his door a second time for the same rate; he takes the sacrament two or three times a...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 18, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 18, 1841Our hero once more undergoes the process of grinding before he presents himself in Lincolns-inn Fields for examination at the College of Surgeons. Almost the last affair which our hero troubles himself about is the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841The document with this title, that has got into the newspapers, has been dressed up for the public eye. We have obtained the original draft, and beg to administer it to our readers neat, in...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841I dined with my old friend and schoolfellow, Jack Withers, one day last September. On the previous morning, on my way to the India House, I had run up against a stout individual on Cornhill,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841Whilst Mr. Muff follows the beadle from the funking-room to the Council Chamber, he scarcely knows whether he is walking upon his head or his heels; if anything, he believes that he is adopting the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841It will be seen that we were not premature in announcing the probability of the birth of a Prince of Wales; and though it was impossible that any one should be able to speak with...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841Mr. Horatio Fitzharding Fitzfunk was a tall young man, a thin young man, a pale young man, and, as some of his friends asserted, a decidedly knock-kneed young man. Moreover he was a young man...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,The result of a serious conversation between the authors of my being ended in the resolution that it was high time for me to begin the world, and do something for myself. The only difficult...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841That great creature, like some other great creatures, happened, as almanacs say, about this time to be somewhat out at elbows;not in the way of costume, for the very plenitude of his wardrobe was the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841The market has been in a most extraordinary state all the morning. Our first advices informed us that feathers were getting very heavy, and that lead was a great deal brisker than usual. In the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 18, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 18, 1841Kindness was a characteristic of Agamemnons disposition, and it is not therefore a matter of surprise that the monththe month, par excellence, of all the months ithe kalendarproduced a succession of those annoyances which, in...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841A melo-drama is a theatrical dose in two or three acts, according to the strength of the constitution of the audience. Its component parts are a villain, a lover, a heroine, a comic character, and...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841Morning and evening, from every village within three or four miles of the metropolis, may be remarked a tide of young men wending diurnal way to and from their respective desks and counters in the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841There is something peculiarly pleasing in the above paragraph. The imagination instantly conjures up an elegant yellow-bodied chariot, lined with pearl drab, and a sandwich basket. In one corner sits a fair and blushing creature...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841The heir of Applebite continued to squall and thrive, to the infinite delight of his youthful mamma, who was determined that the joyful occasion of his cutting his first tooth should be duly celebrated by...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841The conversation now subsided into private and confidential whispers, from which I could learn that Miss OBrannigan had consented to quit her fathers halls with Terence that very night, and, before the priest, to become...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841[From a MS. drama called the COURT OF VICTORIA. Scene in Windsor Castle. [Her Majesty discovered sitting thoughtfully at an escrutoire. Enter the LORD CHAMBERLAIN.] LORD CHAMBERLAIN.May it please your Majesty, a letter from the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 28, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 28, 1841The following is extracted from the Parliamentary Guide for 18:APPLEBITE, ISAAC (Puddingbury). Born March 25, 1780; descended from his grandfather, and has issue. And upon reference to a monument in Puddingbury church, representing the first...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841My uncle paused. I perceived that his eyes were full, and his tumbler empty; I therefore thought it advisable to divert his sorrow, by reminding him of our national proverb, Iss farr doch na skeal11....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 14, 1841Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 14, 1841Haberdashers, continued my friend the boot, are wonderful people; they make the greatest show out of the smallest stockwhether of brains or ribbonsof any men in the world. A stranger could not pass through the...
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