Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
FINAL FLIGHT. As, in the silence and overshadowing of that night whose
fitful meteoric fires only herald the descent of a superficial fame into
lasting oblivion, the imbecile and unavailing resistance which is made
against the doom must often excite our pity for the pampered child of
market-gilded popularity; and as it is not with such feelings that we
behold the dark thraldom and long-suffering of true intellectual
strength, of which the brief, though frequent, soundings beneath the
earthly pressure will be heard even amidst the din of flaunting crowds,
or the solemn conclaves of common-place minds, of which the obscured
head will often shed forth ascending beams that can only be lost in
eternity; and of which the mighty struggles to upheave its own weight,
and that of the superincumbent mass of prejudice, envy, ignorance,
folly, or uncongenial force, must ever ensure the deepest sympathy of
all those who can appreciate the spirit of its qualities; let the
initiative skyward struggles towards the zenith-abysses of the inane
impalpable , &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
Dramatic Authors Theatre, Sept. 16, 1841.
HUMANE SUGGESTION. MASTER PUNCH,Mind yes, Ive been to see these here
Secretens at the English Uproar Ouse, and thinks, mind yes, they aint
by no means the werry best Cheshire; but what I want to know is this
hereWhy dont they give that wenerable old genelman, Mr. Martinussy,
the Hungry Cardinal, something to eat?he is a continually calling out
for some of his Countrys Weal, (which, I dare say, were werry good) and
he dont never git so much as a sandvich dooring the whole of his life
and deathI mention dese tings, because, mind yes, it aint werry kind
of none on em.
I remains, Mr. PUNCH, Sir, yours truly,
DEF BURKE,
A man with a nasty black eye. HIS MARK.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE STATUE OF GEORGE CANNING AND SIR ROBERT PEEL. The
new Premier was taking a solitary stroll the other evening through
Palace-yard, meditating upon the late turn which had brought the Tories
to the top of the wheel and the Whigs to the bottom, and pondering on
the best ways and means of keeping his footing in the slippery position
that had cost him so much labour to attain. While thus employed, with
his eyes fixed on the ground, and his hands buried in his breeches-
pockets, he heard a voice at no great distance, calling in familiar
tone
Bob! Bob!I say, Bob!
The alarmed Baronet stopped, and looked around him to discover the
speaker, when, casting his eyes upon the statue of George Canning in the
enclosure of Westminster Abbey, he was astonished to perceive it nodding
its head at him, like the statue in Don Giovanni, in a How dye do?
kind of way. Sir Robert, who, since his introduction to the Palace, has
grown perilously polite, took off his hat, and made a low bow to the
figure.
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