Identifier: punchv40lemo (find matches)
Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Sirius his starHad fired all Dogs of War.! Ringed in with gathering growls, Fierce fangs on every hand,Mid defiant snarls and scowls, See Britains bull-dog stand.Not couchant, as the wont Is of the placid brute;But legs set firm in front, With muzzle clenched and mute.Ware all—who tempt too farThat peaceful Dog of War! Pretty Pigs. The Pope, in his petticoats and white satinshoes, may be looked upon as somewhat of afemale. There is another point of resemblancebetween his Holiness and the ladies. Both, oncertain subjects, are alike deaf to reason. Tiieobstinacy of the Pontiff relates to Faith, the pig-headedness of the fair sex regards Fashion. Hewill not concede secular Government nor sur-render young Mortara ; they refuse to give upCrinoline. To the demand of justice, commonsense, and expediency, the Pope replies Nonpossumus; and when implored to relinquish adangerous, inconvenient, and ridiculous mode ofdress, so say the ladies. 168 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (April 20, 1861.
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SEVERE. Dainty Old Gent. Have 1 liked my Dinner?—No, Ive not! So dont give what Ive left to the Cat,Sir; because as shes sure to become pic, I should like her to die a natural death, and not be poisoned. A HOPEFUL CHARACTER. For a parent whose paternalheart has been so severely andrepeatedly lacerated as that of PioNono, by his own account, theHoly Father bears up wonderfully.The foreign correspondent of a con-temporary, quoting some remarks-lately made by his Hohness,says :— In the first place I learn that thePope says he can reckon on the protectiveoffice of the French army for at least sixmonths more, and who knows, ex-claimed his Holiness, what may occurin six months? The Successor of St. Peter mayor may not succeed, or endeavourto succeed, in following St. Petersexample, but he is evidently a verygood imitator, whether consciousor unconscious, of another and amore modern character, who hasacquired universal celebrity froma habit which lie had of continuallyexpressing, under t

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