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A Satire Anthology

by Carolyn Wells

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3A Satire Anthology
  4. 4A Would-Be Literary Bore
  5. 5The Wish for Length of Life
  6. 6The Ass’s Legacy
  7. 7A Ballade of Old-Time Ladies
  8. 8A Carman’s Account of a Lawsuit
  9. 9The Soul’s Errand
  10. 10Of a Certain Man
  11. 11A Precise Tailor
  12. 12The Will
  13. 13Shakespearean Satire
  14. 14From “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
  15. 15From “As You Like It”
  16. 16Horace Concocting an Ode
  17. 17On Don Surly
  18. 18The Scholar and His Dog
  19. 19The Manly Heart
  20. 20The Constant Lover
  21. 21The Remonstrance
  22. 22Saintship Versus Conscience
  23. 23Description of Holland
  24. 24The Religion of Hudibras
  25. 25Satire on the Scots
  26. 26Song
  27. 27The Character of Holland
  28. 28The Duke of Buckingham
  29. 29On Shadwell
  30. 30Satire on Edward Howard
  31. 31St. Anthony’s Sermon to the Fishes
  32. 32Introduction to the True-Born Englishman
  33. 33An Epitaph
  34. 34The Remedy Worse Than the Disease
  35. 35Twelve Articles
  36. 36The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind
  37. 37From “The Love of Fame”
  38. 38Dr. Delany’s Villa
  39. 39The Quidnunckis
  40. 40The Sick Man and the Angel
  41. 41Sandys’ Ghost
  42. 42From “The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
  43. 43The Three Black Crows
  44. 44An Epitaph
  45. 45An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole
  46. 46The Public Breakfast
  47. 47An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
  48. 48On Smollett
  49. 49The Uncertain Man
  50. 50A Faithful Picture of Ordinary Society
  51. 51On Johnson
  52. 52To Boswell
  53. 53The Hen
  54. 54Let Us All Be Unhappy Together
  55. 55The Friar of Orders Gray
  56. 56The Country Squire
  57. 57The Eggs
  58. 58The Literary Lady
  59. 59Sly Lawyers
  60. 60Reporters
  61. 61Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous
  62. 62Holy Willie’s Prayer
  63. 63Kitty of Coleraine
  64. 64The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
  65. 65Nora’s Vow
  66. 66Job
  67. 67Cologne
  68. 68Giles’ Hope — The Battle of Blenheim
  69. 69The Well of St. Keyne
  70. 70The Poet of Fashion
  71. 71Christmas Out of Town
  72. 72Eternal London
  73. 73The Modern Puffing System
  74. 74Lying
  75. 75The King of Yvetot
  76. 76Sympathy
  77. 77A Modest Wit
  78. 78The Philosopher’s Scales
  79. 79From “The Feast of the Poets”
  80. 80Rich and Poor; or, Saint and Sinner
  81. 81Mr. Barney Maguire’s Account of the Coronation
  82. 82From “The Devil’s Drive”
  83. 83From “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”
  84. 84To Woman
  85. 85A Country House Party
  86. 86Greediness Punished
  87. 87Woman
  88. 88The Rich and the Poor Man
  89. 89Ozymandias
  90. 90Cui Bono?
  91. 91Father-Land and Mother-Tongue
  92. 92Father Molloy or, the Confession
  93. 93Gaffer Gray
  94. 94Cockle V. Cackle
  95. 95Our Village
  96. 96The Devil at Home
  97. 97How to Make a Novel
  98. 98Two Characters
  99. 99The Sailor’s Consolation
  100. 100Pelters of Pyramids
  101. 101The Annuity
  102. 102Malbrouck
  103. 103A Man’s Requirements
  104. 104Critics
  105. 105The Miser
  106. 106Cacoëthes Scribendi
  107. 107A Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents
  108. 108Contentment
  109. 109How to Make a Man of Consequence
  110. 110The Widow Malone
  111. 111The Pauper’s Drive
  112. 112On Lytton
  113. 113Sorrows of Werther
  114. 114Mr. Molony’s Account of the Ball
  115. 115Damages, Two Hundred Pounds
  116. 116The Lost Leader
  117. 117The Pope and the Net
  118. 118Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  119. 119Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public
  120. 120The Great Critics
  121. 121The Laureate
  122. 122Woman’s Will — The Mourner à la Mode
  123. 123There Is No God
  124. 124The Latest Decalogue
  125. 125From “A Fable for Critics”
  126. 126The Pious Editor’s Creed
  127. 127Revelry in India
  128. 128A Fragment
  129. 129Nothing to Wear
  130. 130A Review
  131. 131The Positivists
  132. 132Sky-Making
  133. 133My Lord Tomnoddy
  134. 134Hiding the Skeleton
  135. 135Midges
  136. 136The Schoolmaster Abroad With His Son
  137. 137Of Propriety
  138. 138Peace: A Study
  139. 139All-Saints
  140. 140Fame’s Penny Trumpet
  141. 141The Diamond Wedding
  142. 142True to Poll
  143. 143Sleep On
  144. 144To the Terrestrial Globe
  145. 145The Ape and the Lady
  146. 146Anglicised Utopia
  147. 147Etiquette
  148. 148The Æsthete
  149. 149Too Late!
  150. 150Life in Laconics
  151. 151Distiches
  152. 152The Poet and the Critics
  153. 153The Love-Letter
  154. 154Fame
  155. 155Five Lives
  156. 156He and She
  157. 157What Will We Do?
  158. 158The Tool
  159. 159Give Me a Theme
  160. 160The Poem, to the Critic — Ballade of Literary Fame
  161. 161Chorus of Anglomaniacs
  162. 162The Net of Law
  163. 163A Boston Lullaby
  164. 164The V-a-S-E
  165. 165Thursday
  166. 166A Bird in the Hand
  167. 167An Advanced Thinker
  168. 168A Thought
  169. 169A Sonnet
  170. 170They Said
  171. 171To R. K.
  172. 172To Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  173. 173What’s in a Name?
  174. 174Wed
  175. 175Atlantic City
  176. 176The Font in the Forest
  177. 177The Origin of Sin
  178. 178A Philosopher
  179. 179The Fate of Pious Dan
  180. 180The Meeting of the Clabberhuses
  181. 181Wedded Bliss
  182. 182A Conservative
  183. 183Same Old Story
  184. 184Hem and Haw
  185. 185The Sceptics
  186. 186The Evolution of a “Name”
  187. 187“The Hurt That Honour Feels”
  188. 188John Jenkins
  189. 189A Certain Cure
  190. 190The Beauties of Nature
  191. 191Paradise
  192. 192Hoch! der Kaiser
  193. 193On a Magazine Sonnet
  194. 194Earth
  195. 195A Butterfly of Fashion
  196. 196General Summary
  197. 197The Conundrum of the Workshops
  198. 198Extracts From the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
  199. 199Ballade of Expansion
  200. 200Friday Afternoon at the Boston Symphony Hall
  201. 201War Is Kind
  202. 202Lines
  203. 203From the House of a Hundred Lights
  204. 204The British Visitor
  205. 205A Match
  206. 206Wanted — A Governess
  207. 207Lines by an Old Fogy

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