The Book of SnobsPunch Office, 1848 - 180 pages |
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admirable ALURED asked beautiful boots BUCKRAM called CAPTAIN CARABAS carriage CHAPTER CHUFF church CITY SNOBS CLERICAL SNOBS CLUB SNOBS College Colonel COUNTRY SNOBS Court Circular creature CRŒSUS daughter dear dine dinner Dinner-giving Snob dress Duke EARL EARL OF ALDBOROUGH England English fashion father fellow flunkies footmen French genteel gentleman give GOLDMORE GRAY hand happy HARVARD COLLEGE HAWBUCK honest honour horses HUGBY Irish JAWKINS live London look LORD Lordship MAJOR PONTO Mangelwurzel MARQUIS MARRIAGE marry MILITARY SNOBS MISS WIRT MOGYNS morning mutton never noble Peerage POLLY PONTO poor pretty PRINCE PUMP Punch rank Rathdrum regiment round Royal SACKVILLE SACKVILLE MAINE Saint Boniface Sarcophagus Snobbishness SNOBKY society sort splendour Street STRIPES UNIVERSITY SNOBS Vanity Fair W. M. THACKERAY WAGGLE WAGLEY walk Whispers wife WIGGLE wine wonder wretch write young ladies youth
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Page 160 - You, who despise your neighbour, are a Snob ; you, who forget your own friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a Snob ; you, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a Snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. To laugh at such is Mr. Punch's business. May he laugh honestly, hit no foul blow, and tell the truth when at his very broadest grin — never forgetting that if Fun is good, Truth is still better, and Love best of...
Page 1 - Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner...
Page 14 - I like to see such. I am of a savage and envious nature, — I like to see these two humbugs which, dividing, as they do, the social empire of this kingdom between them, hate each other naturally — making truce and uniting — for the sordid interests of either.
Page 22 - WELLINGTON, &c., downwards— (with the exception of HRH FIELD-MARSHAL PRINCE ALBERT, who, however, can hardly count as a military man,) reads Punch in every quarter of the globe. Let those civilians who sneer at the acquirements of the Army read SIR HARRY SMITH'S account of the Battle of Aliwal.