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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891SCENEThe Auditorium of a Music Hall, the patrons of which are respectable, but in no sense "smart." The occupants of the higher-priced seats appear to have dropped in less for the purpose of enjoying the...
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Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850I wish to call attention to the peculiar use of a word, or rather to a peculiar word, in Shakspeare, which I do not recollect to have met with in any other writer. I say a "peculiar...
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Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850Without being what the Germans would call a purist, I cannot deem it an object of secondary importance to defend the principles of the law and constitution of the English language. For the adoption of words we...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829Mr. Gurney, in perfecting this invention, has followed Dr. Franklin's adviceto tire and begin again. It is now four years since he first commenced his ingenious enterprise; and nearly two years...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891The great instrument which has just completed the installation of our national observatory is constructed upon the same principle as the elbowed equatorial, 11 in. in diameter, established in 1882, according to the ingenious arrangement devised as...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891At WERLE's house. In front a richly-upholstered study. (R.) a green-baize door leading to WERLE's office. At back, open folding doors, revealing an elegant dining-room, in which a brilliant Norwegian dinner-party is going on. Hired...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891["You will perceive," writes the Author of the following story, "that this is allegorical, but it is not by any means necessary that you should understand it. The chief charm of allegorical writing is its...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, Jubilee Issue, July 18, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, Jubilee Issue, July 18, 1891"My Reminiscences!" said Mr. Punch, replying to a question put by his Interviewer, ANNO DOMINI EIGHTEEN-NINETY-ONE; "They are already before the World, in exactly One Hundred Volumes! My first 'Number' bore date 'for...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891March 13.Left Billsbury this morning by nine o'clock train, and came back to London. Brought with me the Billsbury Standard, and the Billsbury Meteor (the Radical paper.) Both have accounts of last night's meeting. Rather...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891And with these strictly nautical expressions, two of Mr. Punch's Own entered the Royal Naval Exhibition, which now occupies the larger portion of the grounds of the Military Hospital, Chelsea. That so popular a show...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 STATE PROSECUTIONS, 1 ADVENTURES IN TEXAS. NO. III. THE STRUGGLE, 18 CLITOPHON AND LEUCIPPE, 33 THE NEW ART OF PRINTING. BY A DESIGNING DEVIL, 45 THE BANKING-HOUSE. PART THE LAST, 50 KEFF, FROM THE...
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McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896Reproduced by permission of Braun, Clement & Co. A facsimile of one of the little drawings which Millet was accustomed to make for acquaintances and collectors of autographs, and which he laughingly called his "armes parlantes." Reproduced...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891A Room tastefully filled with cheap Art-furniture. Gimcracks in an tagre; a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier. Japanese fans, skeletons, cotton-wool spiders, frogs, and lizards, scattered everywhere about. Drain-pipes with tall dyed...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891SOUND AND SAFE.We hear that Mr. W.H. GRIFFITHS is to be the new Lessee of the Shaftesbury. Years ago, to the popular inquiry, "Who's GRIFFITHS?" there was but one answer, "The Safe Man." Good omen...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891[The MS. of this remarkable novel was tied round with scarlet ribbons, and arrived in a case which had been once used for the packing of bottles of rum, or some other potent spirit. It...
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Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891SCENEThe Park, near Cumberland Gate, on almost any fine afternoon. Behind the rails separating the turf from the paths, Orators, Preachers, and Reciters are holding forth, for the delectation of small groups, who are mostly...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891Instead of the Sub-Kensington Gardens Railway scheme as proposed, why not a Sub-Serpentine Line? Start it from the South Kensington Station, District-cum-Metropolitan system, run it with one station well-underground in the middle of Exhibition Road,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891["This," writes the Author, "is one of my best and freshest, although on a moderate computation it must be my thousand and first, or so. But I have really lost count. Still it's grand to...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891It is customary for the self-righteous moralists who puff themselves into a state of Jingo complacency over the failings of foreign nations, to declare with considerable unction that the domestic hearth, which every Frenchman habitually...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876None of the European exhibitions we have sketched partook of the nature of an anniversary or was designed to commemorate an historical event. Some idea of celebrating the close of the calendar...
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