A Satire Anthology

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

A SATIRE ANTHOLOGY

CHORUS OF WOMEN

A WOULD-BE LITERARY BORE

THE WISH FOR LENGTH OF LIFE

THE ASS'S LEGACY

A BALLADE OF OLD-TIME LADIES

A CARMAN'S ACCOUNT OF A LAWSUIT

THE SOUL'S ERRAND

OF A CERTAIN MAN

A PRECISE TAILOR

THE WILL

SHAKESPEAREAN SATIRE

FROM "LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST"

FROM "AS YOU LIKE IT"

HORACE CONCOCTING AN ODE

ON DON SURLY

THE SCHOLAR AND HIS DOG

THE MANLY HEART

THE CONSTANT LOVER

THE REMONSTRANCE

SAINTSHIP VERSUS CONSCIENCE

DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND

THE RELIGION OF HUDIBRAS

SATIRE ON THE SCOTS

SONG

THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND

THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

ON SHADWELL

SATIRE ON EDWARD HOWARD

ST. ANTHONY'S SERMON TO THE FISHES

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN

AN EPITAPH

THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE

TWELVE ARTICLES

THE FURNITURE OF A WOMAN'S MIND

FROM "THE LOVE OF FAME"

DR. DELANY'S VILLA

THE QUIDNUNCKIS

THE SICK MAN AND THE ANGEL

SANDYS' GHOST

FROM "THE EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT"

THE THREE BLACK CROWS

AN EPITAPH (2)

AN EPISTLE TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE

THE PUBLIC BREAKFAST

AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG

ON SMOLLETT

THE UNCERTAIN MAN

A FAITHFUL PICTURE OF ORDINARY SOCIETY

ON JOHNSON

TO BOSWELL

THE HEN

LET US ALL BE UNHAPPY TOGETHER

THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY

THE COUNTRY SQUIRE

THE EGGS

THE LITERARY LADY

SLY LAWYERS

REPORTERS

ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS

HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER

KITTY OF COLERAINE

THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER

NORA'S VOW

JOB

COLOGNE

GILES' HOPE

THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM

THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE

THE POET OF FASHION

CHRISTMAS OUT OF TOWN

ETERNAL LONDON

THE MODERN PUFFING SYSTEM

LYING

THE KING OF YVETOT [A]

SYMPATHY

A MODEST WIT

THE PHILOSOPHER'S SCALES

FROM "THE FEAST OF THE POETS"

RICH AND POOR; OR, SAINT AND SINNER

MR. BARNEY MAGUIRE'S ACCOUNT OF THE CORONATION

FROM "THE DEVIL'S DRIVE."

FROM "ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS"

TO WOMAN

A COUNTRY HOUSE PARTY

GREEDINESS PUNISHED

WOMAN

THE RICH AND THE POOR MAN

OZYMANDIAS

CUI BONO?

FATHER-LAND AND MOTHER-TONGUE

FATHER MOLLOY OR, THE CONFESSION

GAFFER GRAY

COCKLE V. CACKLE

OUR VILLAGE

THE DEVIL AT HOME

HOW TO MAKE A NOVEL

TWO CHARACTERS

THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION

VERSES ON SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR DURING ONE OF

PELTERS OF PYRAMIDS

THE ANNUITY

MALBROUCK

A MAN'S REQUIREMENTS

CRITICS

THE MISER

CACOETHES SCRIBENDI

A FAMILIAR LETTER TO SEVERAL CORRESPONDENTS

CONTENTMENT

HOW TO MAKE A MAN OF CONSEQUENCE

THE WIDOW MALONE

THE PAUPER'S DRIVE

ON LYTTON

SORROWS OF WERTHER

MR. MOLONY'S ACCOUNT OF THE BALL

DAMAGES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.

THE LOST LEADER

THE POPE AND THE NET

SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER

CYNICAL ODE TO AN ULTRA-CYNICAL PUBLIC

THE GREAT CRITICS

THE LAUREATE

WOMAN'S WILL

THE MOURNER - LA MODE

THERE IS NO GOD

THE LATEST DECALOGUE

FROM "A FABLE FOR CRITICS"

THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED

REVELRY IN INDIA

A FRAGMENT

NOTHING TO WEAR

A REVIEW

THE POSITIVISTS

SKY-MAKING

MY LORD TOMNODDY

HIDING THE SKELETON

MIDGES

THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD WITH HIS SON

OF PROPRIETY

PEACE: A Study

ALL-SAINTS

FAME'S PENNY TRUMPET

THE DIAMOND WEDDING

TRUE TO POLL

SLEEP ON

TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

THE APE AND THE LADY

ANGLICISED UTOPIA

ETIQUETTE

THE AESTHETE

TOO LATE!

LIFE IN LACONICS

DISTICHES

THE POET AND THE CRITICS

THE LOVE-LETTER

FAME

FIVE LIVES

HE AND SHE

WHAT WILL WE DO?

THE TOOL

GIVE ME A THEME

THE POEM, TO THE CRITIC

BALLADE OF LITERARY FAME

CHORUS OF ANGLOMANIACS

THE NET OF LAW

A BOSTON LULLABY

THE V-A-S-E

THURSDAY

A BIRD IN THE HAND

AN ADVANCED THINKER

A THOUGHT

A SONNET

THEY SAID

TO R. K.

TO MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

WED.

ATLANTIC CITY

THE FONT IN THE FOREST

THE ORIGIN OF SIN

A PHILOSOPHER

THE FATE OF PIOUS DAN

THE MEETING OF THE CLABBERHUSES I H E was the Chairman of the

WEDDED BLISS

A CONSERVATIVE

SAME OLD STORY

HEM AND HAW

THE SCEPTICS

THE EVOLUTION OF A "NAME"

"THE HURT THAT HONOUR FEELS"

JOHN JENKINS

A CERTAIN CURE

THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE

PARADISE

HOCH! DER KAISER

ON A MAGAZINE SONNET

EARTH

A BUTTERFLY OF FASHION

GENERAL SUMMARY

THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS

EXTRACTS FROM THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR CAYENNE

BALLADE OF EXPANSION

FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL

WAR IS KIND

LINES

FROM THE HOUSE OF A HUNDRED LIGHTS

THE BRITISH VISITOR

A MATCH

WANTED A GOVERNESS

LINES BY AN OLD FOGY

INDEX OF TITLES

INDEX OF AUTHORS

A SATIRE ANTHOLOGY


SATIRE should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU.

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Satire
Anthology



Collected by
Carolyn Wells




New York
Charles Scribner’s Sons

1905


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