A Satire Anthology

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Compiler

Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Satire, English

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Text

eBook-No.

47528

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47528

Release Date

December 4, 2014

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

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

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