Punch (59.1870)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[August 6, 1870.

all classes of society in turn have been unani-
mous in considering thee an awful bore.'"'—

ZlHMEBMANN.

STODGE'S STUDIO

is materially op confined proportions. what then? P>y HIS art he opens it out

into " Long-Drawn Aisles and Fretted Vaults," fie", to any Extent.

" Education has its limits, its boundary
walls, its termini. It cannot transmute the
uncouth clown into the polished courtier, nor
bestow on the awkward dairymaid the grace
and manner of a Dowager Duchess. It is
the lever by which men raise themselves to
lofty estate, the step-ladder by which they
climb to eminent fortune, the lift which ele-
vates them to the highest story in the altitu-
dinous hotel of lite. To be educated is to be
armed and fortified against all the assaults
and attacks of Vicissitude, to be possessed
of a well-lined purse for the wants and
desires of the rational appetite, to be inde-
pendent of the fall in the Funds and the
| fluctuations of the Spanish Quicksilver Loan,
to glide away from annoyance and carking
anxiety, and the cares of a young family at-
tacked by the disorders of infancy ; but not
to escape from street noises or the Income-
■ tax."—Locke.

"I have many vices, no virtues. I never
make promises : I am, therefore, more likely
to perform them. Be careful of your means
and your complexion. We dine to live, and
live to dine. Punctuality is the bane of
existence. Be honest if you can, but, above
all things, be polite. Like all, love none.
You had far better apply your knife to your
throat than put it into your mouth. If you
drop your h's, Society will drop you. Take
care of the luxuries of life, the necessaries
will take care of themselves. If you play,
and lose your stake, don't be chopfallen. be
gay, be cheerful: if you are out of pocket,
you need not be out of smiles. Use ivory
hair-brushes/'—Lord Chestebpield.

THOUGHTS OF GREAT MEN.

{Now first Collected.)

" O Solitude ! by rushy banks of sedgy streams flowing through extra-parochial places, by
mountain torrents unpolluted by the sewage of corporate towns, by boundless prairies where the
lone eagle hovers in its eyry to swoop down, this hot weather, on the more lunely lamb, we woo,
we court, we molest thee ! Thy votaries, thy devotees, thy honorary members are to be found
alike in the unquestioned stillness of the arenaceous Sahara, and the multiplied hum of popu-
lous cities ; on the marge of the sequestered lake where the turtle coos and the thirsty wagtail
drinks, and in the midst of the manufacturing districts ; on the crowning peak of the inacces-
sible Alp, and on the top of the Monument.

"Poets have sung thee, prose writers praised thee; philosophers have analysed thy advantages,
and eremites retreated from the world and the Kow to the shelter of thy unlading arms ; and

Here is a little lyric, by an anonymous
hand, of the Elizabethan period, which
Herbick or Hooker might have written
in their happiest moments. Hitherto it lias
only existed in MS. in the Catacombs :—

" Ah, welladay !
That jocund May
When Celta first I spied,
With flowing gown,
And hair adown,
And lambkins by her side.

" Within the shade
The musk-rose made,
Entwined with eglantine,
We heard the dove
Unfold his love,
And crushed a cup of wine.

" Fond maid and youth,
Our troth and truth
We plighted in the bower :
The dream is fleet,
But honey-sweet,
When Cupid wants a dower.

" Then, Celia, brave
The cloud and wave
That threaten every lot—
My love, my life,
My second wife,
My own forget-me-not."

Aut Caesar aut Nullus.

One reason for the War has been alleged
to be the fifty thousand "Noes" which in
the recant plebiscite were voted by the army.
Well, clearly, if the Empebob has been led
by the noes, he will hardly find much favour
in the eyes of Europe.