Sir Wm. S. Gilbert: A Study in Modern Satire; a Handbook on Gilbert and the Gilbert-Sullivan Operas

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Stratford publishing Company, 1913 - 146 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 113 - My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment!
Strana 105 - I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative!
Strana 104 - Am I alone, And unobserved? I am! Then let me own I'm an aesthetic sham! This air severe Is but a mere Veneer!
Strana 112 - To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock. Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock. From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
Strana 120 - I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop, And, off Cape Finistere, A merchantman we see, A Frenchman, going free, So we made for the bold Mounseer, D'ye see? We made for the bold Mounseer. But she proved to be a Frigate — and she up with her ports, And fires with a thirty-two! It come uncommon near, But we answered with a cheer, Which paralysed the Parley-voo, D'ye see?
Strana 107 - QUEEN (speaking through music). Every bill and every measure That may gratify his pleasure, Though your fury it arouses, Shall be passed by both your Houses.
Strana 128 - String the lyre and fill the cup, Lest on sorrow we should sup. Hop and skip to Fancy's fiddle, Hands across and down the middle — Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up!
Strana 135 - Her soul is sweet as the ocean air, For prudery knows no haven there ; To find mock-modesty, please apply To the conscious blush and the downcast eye. Rich in the things contentment brings, In every pure enjoyment wealthy, Blithe as a beautiful bird she sings, For body and mind are hale and healthy. Her eyes they thrill with right goodwill — Her heart is light as a floating feather — As pure and bright as the mountain rill That leaps and laughs in the Highland heather ! Go search the world, etc.
Strana 103 - Jullien, the eminent musico Wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Queen Anne The pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Boucicault Style of the Bishop of Sodor and Man The dash of a D'Orsay, divested of quackery Narrative powers of Dickens and Thackeray Victor Emmanuel - peak-haunting Peveril Thomas Aquinas, and Doctor Sacheverell Tupper and Tennyson - Daniel Defoe Anthony Trollope and Mr.
Strana 133 - Boons? Bah! A fico for such boons, say we! These boons have brought Utopia to a standstill! Our pride and boast — the Army and the Navy — Have both been reconstructed and remodelled Upon so irresistible a basis That all the neighbouring nations have disarmed — And War's impossible! Your County Councillor Has passed such drastic Sanitary laws That all the doctors dwindle, starve, and die! The laws, remodelled by Sir Bailey Barre, Have quite extinguished crime and litigation: The lawyers starve,...

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