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The Project Gutenberg eBook, English Satires, by Various, et al, Edited by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

Title: English Satires

Author: Various

Editor: William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

Release Date: June 24, 2005 [eBook #16126]

Language: English

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ENGLISH SATIRES

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

OLIPHANT SMEATON

LONDON
THE GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY
34 SOUTHAMPTON STREET
STRAND

TO THE MEMORY OF

ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART
D.D., LL.D., F.S.A.

WITH A GRATEFUL SENSE OF ALL IT OWES TO
HIS TEACHING
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR

PREFACE.

In the compilation of this volume my aim has been to furnish a work that would be representative in character rather than exhaustive. The restrictions of space imposed by the limits of such a series as this have necessitated the omission of many pieces that readers might expect to see included. As far as possible, however, the most typical satires of the successive eras have been selected, so as to throw into relief the special literary characteristics of each, and to manifest the trend of satiric development during the centuries elapsing between Langland and Lowell.

Acknowledgment is due, and is gratefully rendered, to Mrs. C.S. Calverley for permission to print the verses which close this book; and to Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for permission to print A.H. Clough's "Spectator ab Extra".

To Professor C.H. Herford my warmest thanks are due for his careful revision of the Introduction, and for many valuable hints which have been adopted in the course of the work; also to Mr. W. Keith Leask, M.A.(Oxon.), and the librarians of the Edinburgh University and Advocates' Libraries.

OLIPHANT SMEATON.

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CONTENTS.

Page INTRODUCTION xiii WILLIAM LANGLAND I. Pilgrimage in Search of Do-well 1 GEOFFREY CHAUCER II. III. The Monk and the Friar

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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@16126@[email protected]#page006" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">6 JOHN LYDGATE IV. The London Lackpenny 10 WILLIAM DUNBAR V. The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins 14 SIR DAVID LYNDSAY VI. Satire on the Syde Taillis—Ane Supplicatioun directit to the
Kingis Grace—1538 19 BISHOP JOSEPH HALL VII. On Simony 22 VIII. The Domestic Tutor's Position 23 IX. The Impecunious Fop 24 GEORGE CHAPMAN X. An Invective written by Mr. George Chapman against Mr. Ben Jonson 26 JOHN DONNE XI. The Character of the Bore 29 BEN JONSON

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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">XII. The New Cry 34 XIII. On Don Surly 35 SAMUEL BUTLER XIV. The Character of Hudibras 36 XV. The Character of a Small Poet 43 ANDREW MARVELL XVI. Nostradamus's Prophecy 45 [x] JOHN CLEIVELAND XVII. The Scots Apostasie 47 JOHN DRYDEN XVIII. Satire on the Dutch 49 XIX. MacFlecknoe 50 XX. Epistle to the Whigs 57 DANIEL DEFOE XXI. Introduction to the

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True born Englishman 63 THE EARL OF DORSET XXII. Satire on a Conceited Playwright 65 JOHN ARBUTHNOT XXIII. Preface to John Bull and his Law suit 66 XXIV. The History of John Bull 70 XXV. Epitaph upon Colonel Chartres 76 JONATHAN SWIFT XXVI. Mrs Frances Harris' Petition 77 XXVII. Elegy on Partridge 81 XXVIII. A Meditation upon a Broom stick 85 XXIX. The Relations of Booksellers and Authors 86 XXX. The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal Highness Prince Posterity 91

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SIR RICHARD STEELE XXXI. The Commonwealth of Lunatics 97 JOSEPH ADDISON XXXII. Sir Roger de Coverley's Sunday 101 EDWARD YOUNG XXXIII. To the Right Hon. Mr. Dodington 105 JOHN GAY XXXIV. The Quidnunckis 112 ALEXANDER POPE XXXV. The Dunciad—The Description of Dulness 114 XXXVI. Sandys' Ghost; or, a proper new ballad of the New Ovid's Metamorphoses, as it was intended to be translated by persons of quality 120 XXXVII. Satire on the Whig Poets 122 XXXVIII. Epilogue to the Satires 131 [xi] SAMUEL JOHNSON

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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">XXXIX. The Vanity of Human Wishes 136 XL. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield 147 OLIVER GOLDSMITH XLI. The Retaliation 149 XLII. The Logicians Refuted 154 XLIII. Beau Tibbs, his Character and Family 156 CHARLES CHURCHILL XLIV. The Journey 160 JUNIUS XLV. To the King 164 ROBERT BURNS XLVI. Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous 180 XLVII. Holy Willie's Prayer 182 CHARLES LAMB XLVIII. A Farewell to Tobacco

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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@16126@[email protected]#page186" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">186 THOMAS MOORE XLIX. Lines on Leigh Hunt 191 GEORGE CANNING L. Epistle from Lord Boringdon to Lord Granville 192 LI. Reformation of the Knave of Hearts 194 POETRY OF THE ANTI JACOBIN LII. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder 203 LIII. Song by Rogero the Captive 205 COLERIDGE AND SOUTHEY LIV. The Devil's Walk 206 SYDNEY SMITH LV. The Letters of Peter Plymley—on "No Popery" 208 JAMES SMITH LVI. The Poet of Fashion 216 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">LVII. Bossuet and the Duchess of Fontanges 218 [xii] LORD BYRON LVIII. The Vision of Judgment 226 LIX. The Waltz 236 LX. "The Dedication" in Don Juan 243 THOMAS HOOD LXI. Cockle v. Cackle 249 LORD MACAULAY LXII. The Country Clergyman's Trip to Cambridge 253 WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED LXIII. The Red Fisherman; or, The Devil's Decoy 257 LXIV. Mad—Quite Mad 264 BENJAMIN DISRAELI (LORD BEACONSFIELD) LXV. Popanilla on Man 270

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colspan="3">ROBERT BROWNING LXVI. Cristina 277 LXVII. The Lost Leader 280 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY LXVIII. Piscator and Piscatrix 281 LXIX. On a Hundred Years Hence 283 ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH LXX. Spectator Ab Extra 292 C.S. CALVERLEY LXXI. "Hic Vir, Hic Est" 296