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Chorus of Women _Aristophanes_ 3
A Would-Be Literary Bore _Horace_ 4
The Wish for Length of Life _Juvenal_ 6
The Ass’s Legacy _Ruteboeuf_ 7
A Ballade of Old-Time Ladies
(Translated by John Payne). _François Villon_ 11
A Carman’s Account of a Lawsuit _Sir David Lyndsay_ 12
The Soul’s Errand _Sir Walter Raleigh_ 13
Of a Certain Man _Sir John Harrington_ 16
A Precise Tailor _Sir John Harrington_ 16
The Will _John Donne_ 18
From “King Henry IV” _William Shakespeare_ 20
From “Love’s Labour’s Lost” _William Shakespeare_ 21
From “As You Like It” _William Shakespeare_ 22
Horace Concocting An Ode _Thomas Dekker_ 23
On Don Surly _Ben Jonson_ 24
The Scholar and His Dog _John Marston_ 25
The Manly Heart _George Wither_ 26
The Constant Lover _Sir John Suckling_ 27
The Remonstrance _Sir John Suckling_ 28
Saintship versus Conscience _Samuel Butler_ 29
Description of Holland _Samuel Butler_ 30
The Religion of Hudibras _Samuel Butler_ 31
Satire on the Scots _John Cleiveland_ 32
Song _Richard Lovelace_ 34
The Character of Holland _Andrew Marvell_ 35
The Duke of Buckingham _John Dryden_ 37
On Shadwell _John Dryden_ 38
Satire on Edward Howard _Charles Sackville, Earl
of Dorset_ 39
St. Anthony’s Sermon to the
Fishes _Abraham á Sancta Clara_ 39
Introduction to the True-Born
Englishman _Daniel Defoe_ 41
An Epitaph _Matthew Prior_ 43
The Remedy Worse than the Disease _Matthew Prior_ 45
Twelve Articles _Jonathan Swift_ 46
The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind _Jonathan Swift_ 48
From “The Love of Fame” _Edward Young_ 50
Dr. Delany’s Villa _Thomas Sheridan_ 52
The Quidnunckis _John Gay_ 54
The Sick Man and the Angel _John Gay_ 55
Sandys’ Ghost _Alexander Pope_ 57
From “The Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot” _Alexander Pope_ 60
The Three Black Crows _John Byrom_ 63
An Epitaph _George John Cayley_ 64
An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole _Henry Fielding_ 65
The Public Breakfast _Christopher Anstey_ 67
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad
Dog _Oliver Goldsmith_ 72
On Smollett _Charles Churchill_ 73
The Uncertain Man _William Cowper_ 74
A Faithful Picture of Ordinary
Society _William Cowper_ 74
On Johnson _John Wolcott_
(_Peter Pindar_) 75
To Boswell _John Wolcott_
(_Peter Pindar_) 76
The Hen _Matt. Claudius_ 77
Let Us All be Unhappy Together _Charles Dibdin_ 78
The Friar of Orders Gray _John O’Keefe_ 79
The Country Squire _Tomas Yriarte_ 80
The Eggs _Tomas Yriarte_ 82
The Literary Lady _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_ 84
Sly Lawyers _George Crabbe_ 85
Reporters _George Crabbe_ 85
Address to the Unco Guid, or
the Rigidly Righteous _Robert Burns_ 86
Holy Willie’s Prayer _Robert Burns_ 88
Kitty of Coleraine _Edward Lysaght_ 91
The Friend of Humanity and
the Knife-Grinder _George Canning_ 92
Nora’s Vow _Sir Walter Scott_ 94
Job _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 95
Cologne _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 96
Giles’s Hope _Samuel T. Coleridge_ 96
The Battle of Blenheim _Robert Southey_ 97
The Well of St. Keyne _Robert Southey_ 99
The Poet of Fashion _James Smith_ 101
Christmas Out of Town _James Smith_ 103
Eternal London _Thomas Moore_ 105
The Modern Puffing System _Thomas Moore_ 106
Lying _Thomas Moore_ 108
The King of Yvetot (Version
of W. M. Thackeray) _Pierre Jean de Béranger_ 109
Sympathy _Reginald Heber_ 111
A Modest Wit _Selleck Osborn_ 112
The Philosopher’s Scales _Jane Taylor_ 114
From “The Feast of the Poets” _James Henry Leigh Hunt_ 116
Rich and Poor; or, Saint and
Sinner _Thomas L. Peacock_ 117
Mr. Barney Maguire’s Account
of the Coronation _Richard Harris Barham_ 119
From “The Devil’s Drive” _Lord Byron_ 123
From “English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers” _Lord Byron_ 125
To Woman _Lord Byron_ 126
A Country House Party _Lord Byron_ 127
Greediness Punished _Friedrich Rückert_ 130
Woman _Fitz-Greene Halleck_ 132
The Rich and the Poor Man
(From the Russian of
Kremnitzer) _Sir John Bowring_ 132
Ozymandias _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 134
Cui Bono _Thomas Carlyle_ 135
Father-Land and Mother Tongue _Samuel Lover_ 135
Father Molloy _Samuel Lover_ 136
Gaffer Gray (From “Hugh Trevor”) _Thomas Holcroft_ 139
Cockle v. Cackle _Thomas Hood_ 140
Our Village _Thomas Hood_ 145
The Devil at Home (From “The
Devil’s Progress”) _Thomas Kibble Hervey_ 149
How to Make a Novel _Lord Charles Neaves_ 150
Two Characters _Henry Taylor_ 151
The Sailor’s Consolation _William Pitt_ 152
Verses on seeing the Speake
asleep in his Chair
during One of the
Debates of the First
Reformed Parliament _Winthrop M. Praed_ 154
Pelters of Pyramids _Richard Hengist Horne_ 155
The Annuity _George Outram_ 156
Malbrouck _Translated by Father Prout_ 161
A Man’s Requirements _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 163
Critics _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 164
The Miser _Edward Fitzgerald_ 166
Cacoëthes Scribendi _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 166
A Familiar Letter to Several
Correspondents _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 167
Contentment _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 171
How to Make a Man of Consequence _Mark Lemon_ 173
The Widow Malone _Charles Lever_ 173
The Pauper’s Drive _T. Noel_ 175
On Lytton _Alfred Tennyson_ 177
Sorrows of Werther _William Makepeace 178
Mr. Molony’s Account of the Thackeray_
Ball Given to the
Nepaulese Ambassador by
the Peninsular and
Oriental Company _William Makepeace
Thackeray_ 179
Damages, Two Hundred Pounds _William Makepeace
Thackeray_ 182
The Lost Leader _Robert Browning_ 186
The Pope and the Net _Robert Browning_ 188
Soliloquy of the Spanish
Cloister _Robert Browning_ 190
Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical
Public _Charles Mackay_ 192
The Great Critics _Charles Mackay_ 193
The Laureate _William E. Aytoun_ 194
Woman’s Will _John Godfrey Saxe_ 196
The Mourner á la Mode _John Godfrey Saxe_ 197
There is no God _Arthur Hugh Clough_ 199
The Latest Decalogue _Arthur Hugh Clough_ 200
From “A Fable for Critics” _James Russell Lowell_ 201
The Pious Editor’s Creed _James Russell Lowell_ 206
Revelry in India _Bartholomew Dowling_ 210
A Fragment _Grace Greenwood_ 212
Nothing to Wear _William Allen Butler_ 213
A Review (The Inn Album, By
Robert Browning) _Bayard Taylor_ 221
The Positivists _Mortimer Collins_ 224
Sky-Making _Mortimer Collins_ 226
My Lord Tomnoddy _Robert Barnabas Brough_ 227
Hiding the Skeleton _George Meredith_ 229
Midges _Robert Bulwer Lytton_ 230
The Schoolmaster Abroad with
his Son _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 233
Of Propriety _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 235
Peace. A Study _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 236
All Saints _Edmund Yates_ 237
Fame’s Penny Trumpet _Lewis Carroll_ 238
The Diamond Wedding _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 240
True to Poll _Frank C. Burnand_ 247
Sleep On _W. S. Gilbert_ 249
To the Terrestrial Globe, By
a Miserable Wretch _W. S. Gilbert_ 250
The Ape and the Lady _W. S. Gilbert_ 250
Anglicised Utopia _W. S. Gilbert_ 252
Etiquette _W. S. Gilbert_ 254
The Æsthete _W. S. Gilbert_ 260
Too Late _Fitz-Hugh Ludlow_ 261
Life in Laconics _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 263
Distiches _John Hay_ 264
The Poet and the Critics _Austin Dobson_ 265
The Love Letter _Austin Dobson_ 267
Fame _James Herbert Morse_ 269
Five Lives _Edward Rowland Sill_ 270
He and She _Eugene Fitch Ware_ 272
What Will We Do? _Robert J. Burdette_ 272
The Tool _Richard Watson Gilder_ 273
Give Me a Theme _Richard Watson Gilder_ 274
The Poem, To the Critic _Richard Watson Gilder_ 274
Ballade of Literary Fame _A. Lang_ 274
Chorus of Anglomaniacs (From
The Buntling Ball) _Edgar Fawcett_ 275
The Net of Law _James Jeffrey Roche_ 277
A Boston Lullaby _James Jeffrey Roche_ 277
The V-A-S-E _James Jeffrey Roche_ 278
Thursday _Frederick E. Weatherly_ 280
A Bird in the Hand _Frederick E. Weatherly_ 281
An Advanced Thinker _Brander Matthews_ 282
A Thought _J. K. Stephen_ 283
A Sonnet _J. K. Stephen_ 284
They Said _Edith M. Thomas_ 284
To R. K. _J. K. Stephen_ 286
To Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra _R. K. Munkittrick_ 287
What’s in a Name _R. K. Munkittrick_ 288
Wed _H. C. Bunner_ 289
Atlantic City _H. C. Bunner_ 290
The Font in the Forest _Herman Knickerbocker Vielé_ 294
The Origin of Sin _Samuel Walter Foss_ 294
A Philosopher _Samuel Walter Foss_ 295
The Fate of Pious Dan _Samuel Walter Foss_ 298
The Meeting of the Clabberhuses _Samuel Walter Foss_ 300
Wedded Bliss _Charlotte Perkins
(Stetson) Gilman_ 303
A Conservative _Charlotte Perkins
(Stetson) Gilman_ 304
Same Old Story _Harry B. Smith_ 306
Hem and Haw _Bliss Carman_ 307
The Sceptics _Bliss Carman_ 308
The Evolution of a “Name” _Charles Battell Loomis_ 310
“The Hurt that Honour Feels” _Owen Seaman_ 310
John Jenkins _Anthony C. Deane_ 313
A Certain Cure _Anthony C. Deane_ 316
The Beauties of Nature
(A Fragment from an
Unpublished Epic) _Anthony C. Deane_ 317
Paradise. A Hindoo Legend _George Birdseye_ 319
Hoch! der Kaiser _Rodney Blake_ 320
On a Magazine Sonnet _Russell Hilliard Loines_ 321
Earth _Oliver Herford_ 321
A Butterfly of Fashion _Oliver Herford_ 322
General Summary _Rudyard Kipling_ 324
The Conundrum of the Workshops _Rudyard Kipling_ 326
Extracts from the Rubaiyat of
Omar Cayenne _Gelett Burgess_ 328
Ballade of Expansion _Hilda Johnson_ 331
Friday Afternoon at the Boston
Symphony Hall _Faulkner Armytage_ 332
War is Kind _Stephen Crane_ 336
Lines _Stephen Crane_ 337
From “The House of a Hundred
Lights” _Frederic Ridgely Torrence_ 340
The British Visitor _From The Troliopiad_ 343
A Match _Punch_ 343
Wanted a Governess _Anonymous_ 346
Lines by an Old Fogy _Anonymous_ 348