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قراءة كتاب History of English Humour, Vol. 2
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History of English Humour, Vol. 2
الصفحة رقم: 1
HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR
WITH AN
INTRODUCTION UPON ANCIENT HUMOUR.
BY THE
REV. A. G. L'ESTRANGE,
AUTHOR OF
"THE LIFE OF THE REV. WILLIAM HARNESS,"
"FROM THE THAMES TO THE TAMAR,"
ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1878.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Burlesque--Parody--The "Splendid Shilling"--Prior--Pope--Ambrose | |
| Philips--Parodies of Gray's Elegy--Gay | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Defoe--Irony--Ode to the Pillory--The "Comical Pilgrim"--The | |
| "Scandalous Club"--Humorous Periodicals--Heraclitus | |
| Ridens--The London Spy--The British Apollo | 22 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Swift--"Tale of a Tub"--Essays--Gulliver's Travels--Variety | |
| of Swift's Humour--Riddles--Stella's Wit--Directions | |
| for Servants--Arbuthnot | 44 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Steele--The Funeral--The Tatler--Contributions of Swift--Of | |
| Addison--Expansive Dresses--"Bodily Wit"--Rustic | |
| Obtuseness--Crosses in Love--Snuff-taking | 62 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Spectator--The Rebus--Injurious Wit--The Everlasting | |
| Club--The Lovers' Club--Castles in the Air--The | |
| Guardian--Contributions by Pope--"The Agreeable | |
| Companion"--The Wonderful Magazine--Joe Miller--Pivot | |
| Humour | 77 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Sterne--His Versatility--Dramatic Form--Indelicacy--Sentiment | |
| and Geniality--Letters to his Wife--Extracts | |
| from his Sermons--Dr. Johnson | 99 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Dodsley--"A Muse in Livery"--"The Devil's a Dunce"--"The | |
| Toy Shop"--Fielding--Smollett | 113 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Cowper--Lady Austen's Influence--"John Gilpin"--"The | |
| Task"--Goldsmith--"The Citizen of the World"--Humorous | |
| Poems--Quacks--Baron Münchausen | 127 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The Anti-Jacobin--Its Objects and Violence--"The | |
| Friends of Freedom"--Imitation of Latin Lyrics--The | |
| "Knife Grinder"--The "Progress of Man" | 141 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Wolcott--Writes against the Academicians--Tales of a | |
| Hoy--"New Old Ballads"--"The Sorrows of Sunday"--Ode | |
| to a Pretty Barmaid--Sheridan--Comic Situations--"The | |
| Duenna"--Wits | 150 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Southey--Drolls of Bartholomew Fair--The "Doves"--Typographical | |
| Devices--Puns--Poems of Abel Shufflebottom | 164 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Lamb--His Farewell to Tobacco--Pink Hose--On the | |
| Melancholy of Tailors--Roast Pig | 175 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Byron--Vision of Judgment--Lines to Hodgson--Beppo--Humorous | |
| Rhyming--Profanity of the Age | 184 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Theodore Hook--Improvisatore Talent--Poetry--Sydney | |
| Smith--The "Dun Cow"--Thomas Hood--Gin--Tylney | |
| Hall--John Trot--Barham's Legends | 196 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |