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Actor Aide-de-camp ARABI ARABI PASHA audience Bard Baron Bill British called CHARLES MATHEWS cheers Christmas comes CORRESPONDENTS.-In course Court Crowndale dear delighted Desdemona dinner Directed Envelope Duke Egypt Egyptian Eisteddfod Envelope or Cover Gentleman Giaour give glad GLADSTONE Glorious Twelfth Grand Old hand happy head hear heard honour hour House Iolanthe Irish J. L. TOOLE JOHNNIE joke KHEDIVE Ladies London look LORD MARE LYON PLAYFAIR matter Members Miss morning never night once Othello Paterfamilias play poor present pretty Punch PUNCH'S FANCY PORTRAITS.-No Railway Ramsgate RANDOLPH reply round Royal Salvation Army sing Sir GARNET Sir WILFRID LAWSON sitting smile song sort speech Stamped and Directed Street sure talk tell Theatre there's thing thought tion Waiter walk Wayang werry Wuzzle WYNEVAN young
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Page 123 - Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by: And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he, "Who fell in the great victory.
Page 239 - So the toy that is broken is thrown away, and the heart embittered that once was prized ; And women who work like slaves can find their labour of love is at last despised. They profess to be sick of the shop — these men — who nail their wives to counter and till ; They snarl and snap when they find her faint, and proceed to curse when they see she's ill : For brave little wives must be mothers at last, — there is little for three, when sufficient for two ; So the Gordian knot it is cut by the...
Page 30 - D'ye mind me, a sailor should be every inch All as one as a piece of the ship, And with her brave the world without offering to flinch, From the moment the anchor's a-trip.
Page 239 - She thinks once more of the days at home ! as down on her pillow she sinks her head ; She sees her sisters flauntily fine, and hears her little one cry for bread ! And then comes love — not the old, old love, as she felt it once in the country lanes — But a passionate fever of gilded youth, — who reckons the cost, and who counts the gains ? Still, a dinner or so in a time of need ! and a soft new dress for a lovely form ! Are things that most women are grateful for, — they are sails of life...
Page 214 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 70 - Beside the river Dee; He worked and sang from morn till night — No lark more blithe than he; And this the burden of his song Forever used to be: "I envy nobody — no, not I — And nobody envies me!
Page 14 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 34 - The lamp is out that lighted up the text Of Dickens, Lever — heroes of the pen ; ' Pickwick ' and ' Lorrequer ' we love, but next We place the man who made us see such men. What should we know of ' Martin Chuzzlewit,' Stern ' Mr. Dombey ' or ' Uriah Heep '? ' Tom Burke of Ours' ? Around our hearths they sit, Outliving their creators — all asleep.
Page 34 - No sweeter gift ere fell to man than his Who gave us troops of friends — delightful PHIZ! He is not dead! There in the picture-book He lives with men and women that he drew; We take him with us to the cozy nook Where old companions we can love anew. Dear Boyhood's friend! We rode with him to hounds; Lived with dear Peggotty...
Page 203 - So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.