Punch (1841) (14583146207) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: punch08lemo (find matches)

Title: Punch

Year: 1841 (1840s)

Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1815-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen

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Publisher: (London : Punch Publications, etc.)

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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dead. Dulce el decorum, est, say some, Pro patria mori,And tis a fine thing for a hare By princely hand to die. Twas this perhaps the game inspired To court their Princes aim,They died to give Prince Albert sport, And therefore they died game. Ah ! neer I ween had Guernsey Hill So dire a slaughter seen,The field with dead and dying strewed Showed what the sport had been. How many fell, the Court Gazette Better than I may say,Hares that escaped will live to tell Their children of that day ! Now sportsmen all, from this battue An useful lesson take,Hares beaten close together far The finest shooting make. What if some cockney, whose dull breast Neer felt a sportsmans joy,Cry, Save us from those landlords who Preserve but to destroy ! Long live the Game Laws, though with illsSome people say they re fraught, Long live the laws by which our PrinceEnjoyed such glorious sport! And long may He live thus to get An appetite for lunch,And of his feats a full account Send to the next weeks Punch.

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 61 PUNCH IN THE EAST. BY OUR PAT CONTRIBUTOR. IV.—PUNCH AT THE PYRAMIDS. The 19th day of October, 1844 (the seventh day of the month Hudj-mudj, and the 1229th year of the Mohammedan Hejira, corresponding withthe 16,769th anniversary of the 48th incarnation of Veeshnoo), is a daythat ought hereafter to be considered eternally famous in the climes ofthe East and West. I forget what was the day of General Bonapartesbnttle of the Pyramids ; I think it was in the month Quintidi of the yearNivo6e of the French Republic, and he told his soldiers that forty centurieslooked down upon them from the summit of those buildings—a statementwhich I very much doubt. But I say the 19th datof October, 1844,is the most important era in the modern worlds history. It unites themodern with the ancient civilisation ; it couples the brethren of Watt andCobden with the dusky family of Pharaoh and Sesostris ; it fusesHerodotus with Thomas Babington Macaulat ; it intertwines t

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