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From the introduction: Satire, though a form of literature familiar to everyone, is difficult to define. Partaking variously of sarcasm, irony, ridicule, and burlesque, it is exactly synonymous with no one of these. Satire is primarily dependent on the motive of its writer. ...
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GenreChildren's Literature, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 37 mins
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Publish dateJan 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
106THE MISER
2CHORUS OF WOMEN
107CACOËTHES SCRIBENDI
3A WOULD-BE LITERARY BORE
108A FAMILIAR LETTER TO SEVERAL CORRESPONDENTS
4THE WISH FOR LENGTH OF LIFE
109CONTENTMENT
5THE ASS’S LEGACY
110HOW TO MAKE A MAN OF CONSEQUENCE
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6A BALLADE OF OLD-TIME LADIES
111THE WIDOW MALONE
7A CARMAN’S ACCOUNT OF A LAWSUIT
112THE PAUPER’S DRIVE
8THE SOUL’S ERRAND
113ON LYTTON
9OF A CERTAIN MAN
114SORROWS OF WERTHER
10A PRECISE TAILOR
115MR. MOLONY’S ACCOUNT OF THE BALL
11THE WILL
116DAMAGES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.
12SHAKESPEAREAN SATIRE
117THE LOST LEADER
13FROM “LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST”
118THE POPE AND THE NET
14FROM “AS YOU LIKE IT”
119SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER
15HORACE CONCOCTING AN ODE
120CYNICAL ODE TO AN ULTRA-CYNICAL PUBLIC
16ON DON SURLY
121THE GREAT CRITICS
17THE SCHOLAR AND HIS DOG
122THE LAUREATE
18THE MANLY HEART
123WOMAN’S WILL
19THE CONSTANT LOVER
124THE MOURNER À LA MODE
20THE REMONSTRANCE
125THERE IS NO GOD
21SAINTSHIP VERSUS CONSCIENCE
126THE LATEST DECALOGUE
22DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND
127FROM “A FABLE FOR CRITICS”
23THE RELIGION OF HUDIBRAS
128THE PIOUS EDITOR’S CREED
24SATIRE ON THE SCOTS
129REVELRY IN INDIA
25SONG
130A FRAGMENT
26THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND
131NOTHING TO WEAR
27THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
132A REVIEW
28ON SHADWELL
133THE POSITIVISTS
29SATIRE ON EDWARD HOWARD
134SKY-MAKING
30ST. ANTHONY’S SERMON TO THE FISHES
135MY LORD TOMNODDY
31INTRODUCTION TO THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN
136HIDING THE SKELETON
32AN EPITAPH
137MIDGES
33THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
138THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD WITH HIS SON
34TWELVE ARTICLES
139OF PROPRIETY
35THE FURNITURE OF A WOMAN’S MIND
140PEACE: A Study
36FROM “THE LOVE OF FAME”
141ALL-SAINTS
37DR. DELANY’S VILLA
142FAME’S PENNY TRUMPET
38THE QUIDNUNCKIS
143THE DIAMOND WEDDING
39THE SICK MAN AND THE ANGEL
144TRUE TO POLL
40SANDYS’ GHOST
145SLEEP ON
41FROM “THE EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT”
146TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE
42THE THREE BLACK CROWS
147THE APE AND THE LADY
43AN EPITAPH
148ANGLICISED UTOPIA
44AN EPISTLE TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
149ETIQUETTE
45THE PUBLIC BREAKFAST
150THE ÆSTHETE
46AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG
151TOO LATE!
47ON SMOLLETT
152LIFE IN LACONICS
48THE UNCERTAIN MAN
153DISTICHES
49A FAITHFUL PICTURE OF ORDINARY SOCIETY
154THE POET AND THE CRITICS
50ON JOHNSON
155THE LOVE-LETTER
51TO BOSWELL
156FAME
52THE HEN
157FIVE LIVES
53LET US ALL BE UNHAPPY TOGETHER
158HE AND SHE
54THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY
159WHAT WILL WE DO?
55THE COUNTRY SQUIRE
160THE TOOL
56THE EGGS
161GIVE ME A THEME
57THE LITERARY LADY
162THE POEM, TO THE CRITIC
58SLY LAWYERS
163BALLADE OF LITERARY FAME
59REPORTERS
164CHORUS OF ANGLOMANIACS
60ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS
165THE NET OF LAW
61HOLY WILLIE’S PRAYER
166A BOSTON LULLABY
62KITTY OF COLERAINE
167THE V-A-S-E
63THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER
168THURSDAY
64NORA’S VOW
169A BIRD IN THE HAND
65JOB
170AN ADVANCED THINKER
66COLOGNE
171A THOUGHT
67GILES’ HOPE
172A SONNET
68THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM
173THEY SAID
69THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE
174TO R. K.
70THE POET OF FASHION
175TO MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
71CHRISTMAS OUT OF TOWN
176WHAT’S IN A NAME?
72ETERNAL LONDON
177WED.
73THE MODERN PUFFING SYSTEM
178ATLANTIC CITY
74LYING
179THE FONT IN THE FOREST
75THE KING OF YVETOT[A]
180THE ORIGIN OF SIN
76SYMPATHY
181A PHILOSOPHER
77A MODEST WIT
182THE FATE OF PIOUS DAN
78THE PHILOSOPHER’S SCALES
183THE MEETING OF THE CLABBERHUSES
79FROM “THE FEAST OF THE POETS”
184WEDDED BLISS
80RICH AND POOR; OR, SAINT AND SINNER
185A CONSERVATIVE
81MR. BARNEY MAGUIRE’S ACCOUNT OF THE CORONATION
186SAME OLD STORY
82FROM “THE DEVIL’S DRIVE.”
187HEM AND HAW
83FROM “ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS”
188THE SCEPTICS
84TO WOMAN
189THE EVOLUTION OF A “NAME”
85A COUNTRY HOUSE PARTY
190“THE HURT THAT HONOUR FEELS”
86GREEDINESS PUNISHED
191JOHN JENKINS
87WOMAN
192A CERTAIN CURE
88THE RICH AND THE POOR MAN
193THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE
89OZYMANDIAS
194PARADISE
90CUI BONO?
195HOCH! DER KAISER
91FATHER-LAND AND MOTHER-TONGUE
196ON A MAGAZINE SONNET
92FATHER MOLLOY OR, THE CONFESSION
197EARTH
93GAFFER GRAY
198A BUTTERFLY OF FASHION
94COCKLE V. CACKLE
199GENERAL SUMMARY
95OUR VILLAGE
200THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS
96THE DEVIL AT HOME
201EXTRACTS FROM THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR CAYENNE
97HOW TO MAKE A NOVEL
202BALLADE OF EXPANSION
98TWO CHARACTERS
203FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL
99THE SAILOR’S CONSOLATION
204WAR IS KIND
100VERSES ON SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR DURING ONE OF THE DEBATES OF THE FIRST REFORMED PARLIAMENT
205LINES
101PELTERS OF PYRAMIDS
206FROM THE HOUSE OF A HUNDRED LIGHTS
102THE ANNUITY
207THE BRITISH VISITOR
103MALBROUCK
208A MATCH
104A MAN’S REQUIREMENTS
209WANTED—A GOVERNESS
105CRITICS
210LINES BY AN OLD FOGY
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