The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe
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The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe
American poetry; American wit and humor; English poetry; English wit and humor; Humorous poetry, American; Humorous poetry, English
The Railway Gilpin Punch
Elegy Punch
The Boa and the Blanket Punch
The Dilly and the D's Punch
A Book in a Bustle Punch
Stanzas for the Sentimental. Punch
1. On a Tear which Angelina observed trickling down my nose at
Dinner-time
2. On my refusing Angelina a kiss under the Mistletoe
3. On my finding Angelina stop suddenly in a rapid
after-supper-polka at Mrs. Tompkins' Ball
Soliloquy on a Cab-stand Punch
The Song of Hiawatha Punch
Comfort in Affliction Aytoun
The Husband's Petition Aytoun
The Biter Bit Aytoun
A Midnight Meditation Aytoun
The Dirge of the Drinker Aytoun
Francesca da Rimini Aytoun
Louis Napoleon's Address to his Army Aytoun
The Battle of the Boulevard Aytoun
Puffs Poetical. Aytoun
1. Paris and Helen
2. Tarquin and the Augur
Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian Holmes
Evening, by a Tailor Holmes
Phaethon Saxe
The School-house Lowell
EPIGRAMMATIC.
Epigrams of Ben Jonson.
To Fine Grand
" Brainhardy
" Doctor Empiric
" Sir Samuel Fuller
On Banks, the Usurer
" Chevril the Lawyer
Epigrammatic Verses by Samuel Butler
Opinion
Critics
Hypocrisy
Polish
The Godly
Piety
Poets
Puffing
Politicians
Fear
The Law
" "
" "
Confession
Smatterers
Bad Writers
The Opinionative
Language of the Learned
Good Writing
Courtiers
Inventions
Logicians
Laborious Writers
On a Club of Sots
Holland
Women
Epigrams of Edmund Waller
On a Painted Lady
On the Marriage of the Dwarfs
Epigrams of Matthew Prior
A Simile
The Flies
Phillis's Age
To the Duke de Noailles
On Bishop Atterbury
Forma Bonum Fragile
Earning a Dinner
Bibo and Charon
The Pedant
Epigrams of Joseph Addison
The Countess of Manchester
To an Ill-favored Lady
To a Capricious Friend
To a Rogue
Epigrams of Alexander Pope
On Mrs. Tofts
To a Blockhead
The Fool and the Poet
Epigrams of Dean Swift
On Burning a Dull Poem
To a Lady
The Cudgeled Husband
On seeing Verses written upon Windows at Inns
On seeing the Busts of Newton, Looke, etc.
On the Church's Danger
On one Delacourt, etc.
On a Usurer
To Mrs. Biddy Floyd
The Reverse
The Place of the Damned
The Day of Judgment
Paulus the Lawyer Lindsay
Epigrams by Thomas Sheridan.
On a Caricature
On Dean Swift's Proposed Hospital, etc.,
To a Dublin Publisher
Which is Which Byron
On some Lines of Lopez de Vega Dr. Johnson
On a Full-length Portrait of Beau Nash, etc., Chesterfield
On Scotland Cleveland
Epigrams of Peter Pindar
Edmund Burke's Attack on Warren Hastings
On an Artist
On the Conclusion of his Odes
The Lex Talionis upon Benjamin West
Barry's Attack upon Sir Joshua Reynolds
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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