![]() ![]() The young fellows who purchase that popular paper at the railway station on Wednesday afternoons to enliven them on their way down into the country before it reaches the eager hands of their sisters, have no idea of the treat which it affords, for they have never been without it. The few comic broadsheets which paved the way for Punch were (with one exception that all my contemporaries will recognize) ill conceived and clumsily executed. ![]() Gilray was not the last of our caricaturists who helped to extend and strengthen among foreigners the impression of our vulgarity and lack of wit. One very tolerable test of the social state of a nation is the character of its popular prints. Ought I to call it a romance, after all? There was nothing strange in it it was but a panel from the big picture of life, such a one as you yourself might have traced out during those months spent at the sea-side - a very quiet panel and I saw it principally through the window.Ī different issue of the same periodical, published in the same year, has this interesting commentary on "what is familiarly termed the 'big picture.'" From " Home from the Colonies," in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature (October 18, 1862): I might begin to explain how it was that I, alone in my glory, came to be in lodgings at all, and how my landlady, having once had domestic relations with my family, was not a stranger to me but in the romance that I have to narrate, I am only a looker-on, not an actor, so that my movements or reasons for them are unimportant. It is just possible that you may also know that morsel of the long white terrace which fell to my lot and which chanced to be at an angle where a street broke into the terrace. In addition, a semi-metaphorical instance of the phrase appears in " A Romance of the Sea-side" in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature (July, 19, 1862): However, numerous earlier instances of the phrase occur in literal reference to a large painting or other picture under discussion. But you see the big picture and learn the big facts in the Palace of Agriculture itself. Unlike most exhibits, this agricultural show may be seen with comprehension in almost any order - you may start where you will. Louis Exposition (August 1904):Īnd agricultural processes are shown on a farm of seventy acres. Cunniff, " The Agricultural Conquest of the Earth," in The World Work: The St. A Google Books search finds one instance of "the big picture" from 1904, in M. ![]()
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