Punch, Volumes 46-47

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Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman
Punch Publications Limited, 1864
 

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Page 187 - ... a brother. His monument is in the volumes of which this is one sad leaf, and in a hundred works which, at this hour, few will not remember more easily than those who have just left his grave. While Society, whose every phase he has illustrated with a truth, a grace, and a tenderness heretofore unknown to satiric art, gladly and proudly takes charge of his fame, they, whose pride in the genius of a great associate was equalled by their affection for an attached friend, would leave on record that...
Page 13 - And sharpened wit on roguery's downward way ; And told us what he saw ; and if he smiled His smile had more of sadness than of mirth — But more of love than either. Undefiled, Gentle, alike by accident of birth...
Page 197 - June, pretend to exercise or use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration, or undertake to tell fortunes, or pretend from his or her skill or knowledge in any occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner any goods or chattels, supposed to have been stolen or lost, may be found...
Page 43 - Puff. To be sure it will — but what the plague ! a play is not to show occurrences that happen every day, but things just so strange, that though they never did, they might happen.
Page 187 - ... simplest words are best where all words are vain. Ten days ago, a great artist, in the noon of life, and with his glorious mental faculties in full power, but with the shade of physical infirmity darkening upon him, took his accustomed place among friends who have this day held his pall. Some of them had been fellow-workers with him for a quarter of a century, others for fewer years ; but to know him well was to love him dearly, and all in whose name these lines are written mourn as for a brother....
Page 68 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.

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