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Nuts to crack

by Richard Gooch

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Oxford and Cambridge
  3. 3Gone to Jerusalem
  4. 4A Cutting Retort
  5. 5Liberty a Plant
  6. 6A Tailor Being Taken by Surprise
  7. 7Reasons for Not Publishing
  8. 8Declining King George
  9. 9Classical Jeu D’Esprit
  10. 10A Trait of Barrow
  11. 11Inveterate Smokers
  12. 12Lover of Tobacco
  13. 13A Wager
  14. 14Game in Every Bush
  15. 15Newton’s Toast
  16. 16The Piety of Ray
  17. 17The Devil Looking Over Lincoln
  18. 18Radcliffe’s Library
  19. 19Traits of Dr. Bathurst’s Wit and Habits
  20. 20He Frequently Carried a Whip in His Hand
  21. 21Whipped Even to the Twentieth Year
  22. 22Be a Smart Fellow
  23. 23Milton Was Belashed
  24. 24Epigram on an Epigram
  25. 25Tell Us What You Can’t Do?
  26. 26The First Women Introduced Into a Cloister
  27. 27The Cambridge Scholar and the Ghost of a Scrag of Mutton
  28. 28Comparisons Are Odious
  29. 29Jaunt Down a Patient’s Throat
  30. 30This Difference of Opinion
  31. 31An Epigram on a Petit-Maitre Physician
  32. 32Porson
  33. 33Boasting at a Cambridge Party
  34. 34Bishop Heber’s College Puns
  35. 35A Worthy of the Same School
  36. 36Keep His Door Sported for a Week — Plucked at Their Divinity Examin…
  37. 37Compliment to the Men of Exeter College, Oxon
  38. 38His Grace of Wellington
  39. 39Another Oxonian Was Posed
  40. 40Lapsus Grammaticæ
  41. 41That the Latin Tongue Be Used
  42. 42Effect of Habit
  43. 43The Concussion
  44. 44Comic Picture of the Election of a Provost of King’s College, Cambr…
  45. 45Sir, Dominus, Magistri, Sir Greene
  46. 46Husbands May Beat Their Wives
  47. 47Another Attack on the Ladies
  48. 48Extraordinary Doings at Merton
  49. 49Digging Your Graves With Your Teeth
  50. 50Dr. Torkington’s Gratitude to His Horse
  51. 51Say John Sharp Is a Rogue
  52. 52“I Said as How You’d See”
  53. 53I Now Leave You to Make as Much Noise as You Please
  54. 54The Mad Peter-House Poet
  55. 55The Grace Cup of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge
  56. 56The Tertiavit
  57. 57A More Capacious Bowl
  58. 58Horn of Diversion
  59. 59Another Bibulous Relique
  60. 60A Laudable and Christian Custom
  61. 61Their Feast Days
  62. 62A Musical May-Day Commemoration
  63. 63Ode on a College Feast Day
  64. 64Sir Robert Walpole at Cambridge
  65. 65A College Dinner at the End of the Sixteenth Century
  66. 66An Account of the Wine, &c., Consumed at a College Audit
  67. 67The Black-Night
  68. 68The Force of Imagination
  69. 69His Absent Habits
  70. 70The Early Poets Bred in the Halls of Granta
  71. 71Very Easy to Write Like a Fool”
  72. 72“The Lady of the College;”
  73. 73Both These Alumni
  74. 74Cromwell’s Pear-Tree
  75. 75Other Memorials of Cromwell
  76. 76Dryden Confined to College Walls
  77. 77Expelled From Caius College, Cambridge
  78. 78Prior Laid Out the Walks of St. John’s
  79. 79Stung by a B.
  80. 80A Nest of Saxonists
  81. 81Cole, Relates a Pleasant Mistake
  82. 82Minding the Roast
  83. 83Specimen of a College Exercise
  84. 84William the Fourth, Announced His Intention to Visit Cambridge
  85. 85During Queen Elizabeth’s Second Visit to Oxford
  86. 86The Scholars of Christ Church, Oxford, Invented Moveable Scenes
  87. 87James the First and His Court Came to Oxford
  88. 88To Place the Vice-Chancellor Before the Mayor
  89. 89Brief Notice of the Boar’s Head Carol, as Sung in Queen’s College,…
  90. 90A Carol Bringing in the Bores Heed
  91. 91Ryghte Excellente Song in Honour of the Celebration of the Boar’s H…
  92. 92In English, as Much as to Say
  93. 93Pronounced Him the Greatest Scholar in Europe
  94. 94Porson Was a Great Master of Iambic Measure
  95. 95He Obtained the Soubriquet of Judge Blackstone
  96. 96A Balloon, With Which He Amused the University
  97. 97No Scholar in Europe Understood Them Better
  98. 98The Great Gaudy of the All-Souls’ Mallard
  99. 99Another Oxford Dream Preceded the Foundation of St. John’s College
  100. 100Compliments to the Learned of Both Universities
  101. 101Similar Story Is Told of an Oxford Wag
  102. 102The Fate of the Doctor’s Old Grizzle Wig
  103. 103Bishop Watson’s Own Account of His Progress at Cambridge
  104. 104Paley’s Sketch of His Early Academical Life
  105. 105An Oxford Hoax and a Puritan Detected
  106. 106He Set Aristotle With His Heels Upwards on the School Gates
  107. 107They First Exemplified the Art of Cutting
  108. 108Cromwell’s Soldiers at a Disputation at Oxford
  109. 109Troops Being Raised by the University of Oxford
  110. 110A Copy of Verses on the Doctor’s Death
  111. 111He Was Not Fond of Classical Studies
  112. 112His Two or Three Reasons for Exchanging Livings
  113. 113His Way When He Wanted to Write
  114. 114Paley’s Difficulties a Useful Lesson to Youth
  115. 115In His Poverty He Was Like Parr
  116. 116Porson, Too, Was a Contrast to Paley
  117. 117Anecdote of the Great Lord Burleigh and the Dissenters of His Day
  118. 118A Gentleman Without Sixpence in His Pocket
  119. 119Judgment of Erasmus on the Cambridge Folk
  120. 120Marvellous Strides on the Road to Wealth
  121. 121As a Spice of Their Joint Vanity
  122. 122Assuring Himself a Place Amongst the Greek — Scholars of His Day
  123. 123It Is the Privilege of Women to Talk Nonsense”
  124. 124Reproofs of Ignorance Talking With the Confidence of Knowledge
  125. 125He Matched a Trick of the Devil
  126. 126Iter Academicum; or, the Gentleman Commoner’s Matriculation
  127. 127We Must Do Something for the Poor Lost Young Man
  128. 128A Heavy Fine to Appear in Boots
  129. 129The First Prelate That Wore a Wig
  130. 130The Oxford Scholars Were Prohibited From Wearing Boots and Spurs
  131. 131Wakefield’s Epigram on the Flying Barber of Cambridge
  132. 132You Are to Pray and Fight, Not to Drink for the Church
  133. 133Like Rabelais
  134. 134Ambassadors of King Jesus at Oxford
  135. 135A Surprising Effort of Intellect
  136. 136Judgment of Professor Hallifax
  137. 137The Celebrated Oxonian, Dean Tucker
  138. 138Oh! For a Distich
  139. 139Skeleton Sermons
  140. 140I Wish He Had Paid It First
  141. 141A Mind to Make Trial of the Stocks
  142. 142Lord Chief Justice Pratt
  143. 143Hissing Versus Money
  144. 144Two Oxford Scholars Posing Dr. Hayes
  145. 145Gross Indeed
  146. 146Pun Upon Pye
  147. 147The Cambridge Family of Spintexts
  148. 148Doctor Isaac Barrow
  149. 149Doctor Samuel Parr
  150. 150Another Class of Preachers
  151. 151The Three-Headed Priest
  152. 152My Beef Burnt to a Cinder
  153. 153Short Hand Writing Was Invented by a Cantab
  154. 154The Humble Petition of the Ladies
  155. 155A Natural Turn for Humour
  156. 156Ingenious Repartees
  157. 157Celebrated All Over Germany
  158. 158Rebuses at Oxford and Cambridge
  159. 159Alcock
  160. 160Eglesfield
  161. 161Ashton
  162. 162Lake Leman
  163. 163Something in Your Way
  164. 164Duns
  165. 165Ode on the Pleasure of Being Out of Debt
  166. 166Queering a Dun
  167. 167Gray the Poet a Contrast to Bishop Warburton
  168. 168Value of a Word Spoke in Due Season
  169. 169The Canons of Criticism
  170. 170Bishop Barrington’s Splendid Gift, and Other Traits of Him
  171. 171An Admirable Pulpit Admonition
  172. 172The Simplicity of Great Minds
  173. 173Watch Doing to a Turn in the Saucepan
  174. 174His Wig and Hat Fell Into the Water
  175. 175The Danger of Drinking the King’s Health
  176. 176The Retrogradation Amongst Masters, Tutors, and Scholars
  177. 177Ode to the Unambitious and Undistinguished Bachelors
  178. 178The Classical Tripos and the Wooden Wedge
  179. 179Sir Busick and Sir Isaac Again
  180. 180Cole: Deum
  181. 181The Freshman’s Puzzle
  182. 182A Sly Humourist
  183. 183A Story of a Noble Oxonian
  184. 184It Is Related of the Same Oxford Wag
  185. 185Was a Person of Such Consummate Gravity
  186. 186Inventory of Goods for Sale
  187. 187New Works
  188. 188Contents

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