Charles C. Bombaugh

Prefatory.

INTRODUCTION.

Contents.

Alphabetical Whims.

Palindromes.

Equivoque.

The Cento.

Macaronic Verse.

Concatenation or Chain Verse.

Bouts RimEs.

Emblematic Poetry.

Monosyllables.

The Bible.

The Name of God.

De Nomine Jesu.

The Lord's Prayer.

EcclesiasticAE.

Puritan Peculiarities.

Paronomasia.

English Words and Forms of Expression.

Tall Writing.

Metric Prose.

The Humors of Versification.

Hiberniana.

Blunders.

Misquotations.

Fabrications.

Interrupted Sentences.

Echo Verse.

Puzzles.

The Reason Why.

Weather-Wisdom.

O. S. and N. S.

Memoria Technica.

Origin of Things Familiar.

Nothing New Under the Sun.

Triumphs of Ingenuity.

The Fancies of Fact.

The Fancies of Fact.- Continued

Singular Customs.

FacetiAE.

The Flashes of Repartee.

The Sexes.

Moslem Wisdom.

Excerpta from Persian Poetry.

Epigrams.

Impromptus.

Refractory Rhyming.

Valentines.

Sonnets.

Conformity of Sense to Sound.

Familiar Quotations from Unfamiliar Sources.

Churchyard Literature.

Inscriptions.

Parallel Passages.

Prototypes.

Curious Books.

Literariana.

Literati.

Personal Sketches and Anecdotes.

Historical Memoranda.

Multum in Parvo.

Life and Death.

INDEX.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

“So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.” Ruth 2:17.

“I have here made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the string that ties them.”—Montaigne.