Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta
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- GLEANINGS FOR THE CURIOUS FROM THE Harvest-Fields of Literature. A MELANGE OF EXCERPTA,
- Prefatory.
- INTRODUCTION.
- Alphabetical Whims.
- LIPOGRAMMATA AND PANGRAMMATA.
- EVE’S LEGEND.
- ALPHABETICAL ADVERTISEMENT.
- JACOBITE TOAST.
- THE THREE INITIALS.
- ENIGMAS.
- THE LETTER H.
- ON THE MARRIAGE OF A LADY TO A GENTLEMAN NAMED GEE
- ON SENDING A PAIR OF GLOVES.
- UNIVOCALIC VERSES.
- ALPHABETICAL ALLITERATION.
- COMPLIMENTARY CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING CHESS.
- FELICITOUS FLIGHT OF FANCY.
- A BEVY OF BELLES.
- MOTIVES TO GRATITUDE.
- ACROSTICS.
- GEORGE HERBERT.
- DRYDEN.
- REYNOLDS.
- BURKE.
- HUBER.
- CRABBE.
- WALTER SCOTT.
- WORDSWORTH.
- IRVING.
- MACREADY.
- LONGFELLOW.
- SOUTHEY.
- MACAULAY.
- OLIVER’S IMPROMPTU.
- ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC.
- CHRONOGRAMMATIC PASQUINADE.
- MONASTIC VERSE.
- NAPOLEON FAMILY.
- RACHEL.
- MASONIC MEMENTO.
- HEMPE.
- THE BREVITY OF HUMAN LIFE.
- A VALENTINE.
- ANAGRAMS.
- Galenus—Angelus.
- De Fide—Anagramma quincuplex.
- Brevitas—Anagramma triplex.
- TOAST—A SOTT.
- THOMAS DUDLEY.
- PERSIST.
- A TELEGRAM ANAGRAMMATISED.
- CHRONOGRAMS.
- Palindromes.
- RECURRENT, RECIPROCAL, OR REVERSIBLE WORDS AND VERSES.
- Equivoque.
- COPY OF A LETTER WRITTEN BY CARDINAL RICHELIEU TO THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR AT ROME.
- A LOVE-LETTER.
- INGENIOUS SUBTERFUGE.
- DOUBLE-FACED CREED.
- REVOLUTIONARY VERSES.
- THE HOUSES OF STUART AND HANOVER.
- THE NEW REGIME.
- FATAL DOUBLE MEANING.
- A TRIPLE PLATFORM.
- LOYALTY, OR JACOBINISM?
- NON COMMITTAL.
- NEAT EVASION.
- A PATRIOTIC TOAST.
- THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.
- HOW FRENCH ACTRESSES AVOID GIVING THEIR AGE.
- The Cento.
- MOSAIC POETRY.
- LIFE.
- CENTO FROM POPE.
- BIBLICAL CENTO.
- THE RETURN OF ISRAEL.
- Macaronic Verse.
- “A TREATISE OF WINE.”
- THE SUITOR WITH NINE TONGUES.
- MAGINN’S ALTERNATIONS—HORACE, EPODE II.
- CONTENTI ABEAMUS.
- FLY-LEAF SCRIBBLING.
- THE CAT AND THE RATS.
- MORAL.
- POLYGLOT INSCRIPTION.
- PARTING ADDRESS TO A FRIEND,
- AM RHEIN.
- THE DEATH OF THE SEA SERPENT.
- Concatenation or Chain Verse.
- LASPHRISE’S NOVELTIES.
- TO DEATH.
- TRUTH.
- TRYING SKYING.
- A RINGING SONG.
- Bouts Rimés.
- TRANSLATION.
- REVERSED RHYMES.
- Emblematic Poetry.
- THE WINE GLASS.
- RHOMBOIDAL DIRGE.
- THE CROSS.
- A CURIOUS PIECE OF ANTIQUITY, ON THE CRUCIFIXION OF OUR SAVIOUR AND THE TWO THIEVES.
- EXPLANATION.
- INGENIOUS CYPHER
- TYPOGRAPHICAL.
- OXFORD JOKE.
- ESSAY TO MISS CATHARINE JAY.
- Monosyllables.
- THE POWER OF SHORT WORDS.
- The Bible.
- ACCURACY OF THE BIBLE.
- THE TESTIMONY OF LEARNED MEN.
- ENGLISH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS.
- DISSECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
- OLD TESTAMENT.
- NEW TESTAMENT.
- DISTINCTIONS IN THE GOSPELS.
- BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE NOW LOST OR UNKNOWN.
- THE WORD “SELAH.”
- HEXAMETERS IN THE BIBLE.
- In the Psalms.
- In the New Testament.
- PARALLELISM OF THE HEBREW POETRY.
- Parallels Antithetic.—Prov. x. 1, 7.
- Parallels Synthetic.—Prov. vi. 16–19.
- Constructive.—Psalm xix. 7–9.
- Parallels Synonymous.—Psalm xx. 1–4.
- Gradational.—Psalm i. 1.
- Parallels Introverted.—Prov. xxiii. 15, 16.
- SIMILARITY OF SOUND.
- PARALLEL PASSAGES BETWEEN SHAKSPEARE AND THE BIBLE.
- WHO IS THE TRUE GENTLEMAN?
- MISQUOTATIONS FROM SCRIPTURE.
- A SCRIPTURAL BULL.
- WIT AND HUMOR IN THE BIBLE.
- THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.
- A SCRIPTURAL SUM.
- BIBLIOMANCY.
- The Name of God.
- JEHOVAH.
- GOD IN SHAKSPEARE.
- THE PARSEE, JEW, AND CHRISTIAN.
- I. H. S.
- THE FLOWER OF JESSE.
- BEAUTIFUL LEGEND.
- PERSIAN APOLOGUE.
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST.
- DEATH-WARRANT OF JESUS CHRIST.
- DOUBLE HEXAMETER.
- ANTICIPATORY USE OF THE CROSS.
- The Lord’s Prayer.
- THY AND US.
- SPIRIT OF THE LORD’S PRAYER.
- GOTHIC VERSION.
- METRICAL VERSIONS.
- THE PRAYER ILLUSTRATED.
- ACROSTICAL PARAPHRASE.
- TRIFLING OF BIBLE COMMENTATORS.
- THE PRAYER ECHOED.
- THE PRAYER IN AN ACROSTIC.
- Ecclesiasticæ.
- EXCESSIVE CIVILITY.
- SHORT SERMONS.
- A SERMON ON MALT.
- ELOQUENCE OF BASCOM.
- THE LORD BISHOP.
- THE PREACHERS OF CROMWELL’S TIME.
- ORIGIN OF TEXTS.
- CLERICAL BLUNDERS.
- PROVING AN ALIBI.
- WHITEFIELD AND THE SAILORS.
- PROTESTANT EXCOMMUNICATION.
- Puritan Peculiarities.
- BAPTISMAL NAMES.
- SIMILES.
- EARLY PUNISHMENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS.
- VIRGINIA PENALTIES IN THE OLDEN TIME.
- EXTRACTS FROM THE CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS.
- Paronomasia.
- A PUN-GENT CHAPTER.
- SHORT ROAD TO WEALTH.
- TOM MOORE.
- TOP AND BOTTOM.
- OLD JOKE VERSIFIED.
- A PRINTER’S EPITAPH.
- STICKY.
- WOMEN.
- BEN, THE SAILOR.
- WHISKERS VERSUS RAZOR.
- COMPLIMENT OF SHERIDAN TO MISS PAYNE.
- FROM DR. HOLMES’ “MODEST REQUEST.”
- PLAINT OF THE OLD PAUPER.
- TO MY NOSE.
- BOOK-LARCENY.
- THE VEGETABLE GIRL.
- EPITAPH ON AN OLD HORSE.
- GRAND SCHEME OF EMIGRATION.
- THE PERILOUS PRACTICE OF PUNNING.
- SONNET
- SWIFT’S LATIN PUNS.
- Extract from the consultation of four physicians on a lord that was dying
- UNCONSCIOUS OR UNINTENTIONAL PUNS.
- RUSSIAN DOUBLE ENTENDRE.
- CLASSICAL PUNS AND MOTTOES.
- PUNNING MOTTOES OF THE ENGLISH PEERAGE.
- JEUX-DE-MOTS.
- SPIRITUAL.
- ANAGRAMMATIC.
- ITERATIVE.
- A FAIR LETTER.
- WRITE WRITTEN RIGHT.
- TURN TO THE LEFT AS THE (ENGLISH) LAW DIRECTS.
- ON THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF KILDARE.
- A CatALECTIC MONODY.
- NOVEMBER.
- A SWARM OF BEES.
- THE BEES OF THE BIBLE.
- FRANKLIN’S “RE’S.”
- THE MISS-NOMERS.
- CROOKED COINCIDENCES.
- THE COURT-FOOL’S PUN ON ARCHBISHOP LAUD.
- English Words and Forms of Expression.
- SOURCES OF THE LANGUAGE.
- NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.
- DISRAELIAN ENGLISH.
- “YE” FOR “THE.”
- ITS.
- THAT.
- I SAY.
- PATH-OLOGY.
- THE PRONUNCIATION OF OUGH.
- EXCISE.
- EXCISE.
- Opinion.
- PONTIFF.
- ROUGH.
- NOT AMERICANISMS.
- NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN THEM.
- THE FORLORN HOPE.
- QUIZ.
- TENNYSON’S ENGLISH.
- “THAT MINE ADVERSARY HAD WRITTEN A BOOK.”
- ECCENTRIC ETYMOLOGIES.
- ODD CHANGES OF SIGNIFICATION.
- INFLUENCE OF NAMES.
- COMPOUND EPITHETS.
- OUR VERNACULAR IN CHAUCER’S TIME.
- Tall Writing.
- DEFINITION OF TRANSCENDENTALISM.
- THE DOMICILE ERECTED BY JOHN.
- FROM THE CURIOSITIES OF ADVERTISING.
- FROM THE CURIOSITIES OF THE POST-OFFICE.
- SPANISH PLAY-BILL,
- THE MAD POET.
- FOOTE’S FARRAGO.
- BURLESQUE OF THE STYLE OF DR. JOHNSON.
- NEWSPAPER EULOGY.
- CLEAR AS MUD.
- INDIGNANT LETTER.
- INTRAMURAL ÆSTIVATION.
- A CHEMICAL VALENTINE.
- THE ANATOMIST TO HIS DULCINEA.
- ODE TO SPRING.
- PRISTINE PROVERBS PREPARED FOR PRECOCIOUS PUPILS.
- Metric Prose.
- COWPER’S LETTER TO NEWTON.
- EXAMPLE IN IRVING’S NEW YORK.
- NELLY’S FUNERAL.
- NIAGARA.
- INVOLUNTARY VERSIFICATION IN THE SCRIPTURES.
- UNINTENTIONAL RHYMES OF PROSERS.
- The Humors of Versification.
- THE LOVERS.
- A STAMMERING WIFE.
- A SONG WITH VARIATIONS.
- THOUGHTS WHILE SHE ROCKS THE CRADLE.
- A SERIO-COMIC ELEGY.
- A REMINISCENCE OF TROY.
- THE POET BRYANT AS A HUMORIST.
- THE “ATLANTIC” POEM.
- BRYANT’S TRAVESTY.
- ON RECEIPT OF A RARE PIPE.
- THE HUMAN EAR.
- SIR TRAY: AN ARTHURIAN IDYL.
- THE OLOGIES.
- THE VARIATION HUMBUG.
- BUGGINS’ VARIATIONS ON THE BUSY BEE.
- REITERATIVE VOCAL MUSIC.
- THE CURSE OF O’KELLY.
- Hiberniana.
- A PAIR OF BULLS.
- Blunders.
- SLIPS OF THE PRESS.
- SLIPS OF THE TELEGRAPH.
- “SERIAL” INCONSISTENCY.
- MISTAKES OF MISAPPREHENSION.
- BLUNDERS OF TRANSLATORS.
- Misquotations.
- Fabrications.
- THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SAVIOUR’S PERSON.
- A CLEVER HOAX ON SIR WALTER SCOTT.
- THE MOON HOAX.
- A LITERARY SELL.
- MRS. HEMANS’s “FORGERIES.”
- SHERIDAN’S GREEK.
- BALLAD LITERATURE.
- FRANKLIN’S PARABLE.
- THE SHAKSPEARE FORGERIES.
- Interrupted Sentences.
- Echo Verse.
- LONDON BEFORE THE RESTORATION.
- PASQUINADE.
- THE GOSPEL ECHO.
- ECHO AND THE LOVER.
- ECHO ON WOMAN.
- BONAPARTE AND THE ECHO.
- EPIGRAM ON THE SYNOD OF DORT.
- THE CRITIC’S EPIGRAMMATIC EXCUSE.
- ECHO ANSWERING.
- REMARKABLE ECHOES.
- EXTRAORDINARY FACTS IN ACOUSTICS.
- Puzzles.
- RONDEAU.
- BONAPARTEAN CYPHER.
- PROCLAMATION.
- CASE FOR THE LAWYERS.
- SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S RIDDLE.
- COWPER’S RIDDLE.
- CANNING’S RIDDLE.
- THE PRIZE ENIGMA.
- QUINCY’S COMPARISON.
- SINGULAR INTERMARRIAGES.
- PROPHETIC DISTICH.
- THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.
- GALILEO’S LOGOGRAPH.
- PERSIAN RIDDLES.
- CHINESE TEA SONG.
- DEATH AND LIFE.
- THE REBUS.
- WHAT IS IT?
- THE BOOK OF RIDDLES.
- Here beginneth the first Riddle.
- The Second Riddle.
- The iii. Riddle.
- The iv. Riddle.
- The v. Riddle.
- BISHOP WILBERFORCE’S PUZZLE.
- CURIOSITIES OF CIPHER.
- The Reason Why.
- WHY THE GERMANS EAT SAUER-KRAUT.
- WHY PENNSYLVANIA WAS SETTLED.
- HUGUENOTS.
- ROYAL DEMISE.
- BOSTON.
- WEATHERCOCKS.
- CUTTING OFF WITH A SHILLING.
- CARDINAL’S RED HAT.
- THE ROAST BEEF OF ENGLAND.
- A SENSIBLE QUACK.
- GENEALOGY.
- A JUGGLER’S MYSTERY.
- Weather-Wisdom.
- SHERIDAN’S RHYMING CALENDAR.
- SIR HUMPHRY DAVY ON WEATHER-OMENS.
- SIGNS OF THE WEATHER.
- UNLUCKY DAYS.
- O. S. and N. S.
- THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR.
- RESULTS OF THE CHANGE IN THE STYLE.
- Memoria Technica.
- NAMES AND ORDER OF THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
- NAMES AND ORDER OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
- NAMES OF SHAKSPEARE’S PLAYS.
- ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS.
- PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
- THE DECALOGUE.
- METRICAL GRAMMAR.
- NUMBER OF DAYS IN EACH MONTH.
- Origin of Things Familiar.
- MIND YOUR P’S AND Q’S.
- ALL FOOLS’ DAY.
- CARDS.
- SUB ROSA.
- OVER THE LEFT.
- KICKING THE BUCKET.
- BUMPER.
- ROYAL SAYING.
- DUN.
- HUMBUG.
- PASQUINADES.
- BOTTLED ALE.
- THE POTATO.
- TARRING AND FEATHERING.
- STOCKINGS.
- THE ORDER OF THE GARTER.
- DRINKING HEALTHS.
- A FEATHER IN ONE’S CAP.
- THE WORD BOOK.
- NINE TAILORS MAKE A MAN.
- VIZ.
- SIGNATURE OF THE CROSS.
- THE TURKISH CRESCENT.
- POSTPAID ENVELOPES.
- OLD HUNDRED.
- LA MARSEILLAISE.
- YANKEE DOODLE.
- THE AMERICAN FLAG.
- BROTHER JONATHAN.
- UNCLE SAM.
- THE DOLLAR MARK, $.
- ORIGIN OF VARIOUS INVENTIONS AND CUSTOMS.
- COCK-FIGHTING.
- TURNCOAT.
- INDIA-RUBBER.
- FRICTION MATCHES.
- THE FLAG OF ENGLAND.
- BLUE-STOCKING.
- SKEDADDLE.
- FOOLSCAP PAPER.
- THE FIRST FORGED BANK-NOTE.
- THE FIRST PIANO-FORTE.
- THE FIRST DOCTORS.
- THE FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
- A Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving.
- THE FIRST PRAYER IN CONGRESS.
- THE FIRST REPORTERS.
- THE FIRST EPIGRAM.
- Of a new married student that plaid fast or lose.
- NEWS.
- THE EARLIEST NEWSPAPERS.
- THE FIRST PRINTING BY STEAM.
- THE FIRST TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE.
- Nothing New Under the Sun.
- FORESHADOWINGS OF THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
- THE FIRST DISCOVERIES OF STEAM-POWER.
- ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.
- THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.
- ANÆSTHESIA.
- THE BOOMERANG.
- THE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITATION.
- EARLY INVENTION OF RIFLING.
- TABLE-MOVING AND ALPHABET-RAPPING IN THE FOURTH CENTURY.
- AUSCULTATION AND PERCUSSION.
- THE STEREOSCOPE.
- PREDICTIONS OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
- Triumphs of Ingenuity.
- THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLANET NEPTUNE.
- THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLANET VULCAN.
- INGENIOUS STRATAGEM OF COLUMBUS
- A LESSON WORTH LEARNING.
- CHOOSING A KING.
- KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT.
- The Fancies of Fact.
- THE WOUNDS OF JULIUS CÆSAR.
- BILLS FOR STRANGE SERVICES.
- LAW LOGIC.
- RECIPROCAL CONVERSION.
- PITHY PRAYER.
- MELROSE BY SUNLIGHT.
- BACK ACTION.
- THE AUDITORIUMS OF THE LAST CENTURY.
- TRUE FORM OF THE CROSS.
- SINGULAR COINCIDENCES.
- CHICK IN THE EGG.
- INNATE APPETITE.
- THE INDIAN AND HIS TAMED SNAKE.
- ALLIGATORS SWALLOWING STONES.
- HABITS OF SHEEP.
- REMARKABLE EQUESTRIAN EXPEDITIONS.
- WONDERFUL HORSE.
- WONDERFUL LOCK.
- CELERITY OF CLOTH-MANUFACTURE.
- CRUDE VALUE versus INDUSTRIAL VALUE.
- QUANTITY AND VALUE.
- AMOUNT OF GOLD IN THE WORLD.
- IMMENSE WEALTH OF THE ROMANS.
- WINE AT TWO MILLIONS A BOTTLE.
- CAPACIOUS BEER-CASKS.
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ENGLISH POETS.
- PERILS OF PRECOCITY.
- THE BLACK HOLE AT CALCUTTA.
- STONE BAROMETER.
- BITTERNESS OF STRYCHNIA.
- SALT, AS A LUXURY.
- SINGULAR CHANGE OF TASTE.
- BLUNDERS OF PAINTERS.
- MINUTE MECHANISM.
- THE RATIO OF THE DIAMETER TO THE CIRCUMFERENCE.
- MATHEMATICAL PRODIGIES.
- EXTRAORDINARY MEMORY.
- SILENT COMPLIMENT.
- SELF-IMMOLATION.
- THE NEED OF PROVIDENCE.
- The Fancies of Fact.-Continued
- DIMENSIONS OF HEAVEN.
- THE COST OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE.
- THE NUMBER SEVEN.
- THE NUMBER THREE.
- THE NUMBER NINE.
- CHANGES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE.
- NOAH’S ARK AND THE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP.
- DIVERSITY OF COLORS.
- AEROLITES.
- FATE OF AMERICA’S DISCOVERERS.
- FACTS ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS.
- THE CROWN OF ENGLAND.
- AN ARMY OF WOMEN.
- THE STAR IN THE EAST.
- DIPLOMATIC COSTUME.
- INSTANCES OF REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.
- MEANS OF RECOGNITION.
- MARRIAGE VOW.
- COMPOSITION IN DREAMS.
- FACTS ABOUT SLEEP.
- OPIUM AND EAST INDIAN HEMP.
- EFFECTS OF FEAR.
- FACIAL EXPRESSION.
- A BROKEN HEART.
- SENSATION AND INTELLIGENCE AFTER DECAPITATION.
- ANTIPATHIES.
- STRANGE INSTANCE OF SYMPATHY.
- WALKING BLINDFOLDED.
- FELINE CLOCKS.
- DEVONSHIRE SUPERSTITION.
- A SKULL THAT HAD A TONGUE.
- ROMANTIC HIGHWAYMAN.
- Singular Customs.
- MEMENTO MORI.
- BEAUTIFUL SUPERSTITION.
- STRANGE FONDNESS FOR BEAUTY.
- THE FOUNDATIONS OF DRUIDICAL TEMPLES.
- ABYSSINIAN BEEFSTEAKS.
- OSTIAK REGARD FOR BEARS.
- MAKING NOSES.
- LION-CATCHING IN SOUTH AFRICA.
- HIGH LIFE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
- HAIR IN SEALS.
- SCORNING THE CHURCH.
- MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT.
- Facetiæ.
- TITLES FOR THE LIBRARY DOOR, CHATSWORTH.
- THE JESTS OF HIEROCLES.
- BREVITY.
- SAME JOKE DIVERSIFIED.
- OLD NICK.
- SYLLOGISM.
- A FALSE FRIEND.
- GASCONADE AND HOAXING.
- CHARLES MATHEWS AND THE SILVER SPOON.
- A ROYAL QUANDARY.
- RELICS.
- ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.
- P. AND Q.
- “JACK ROBINSON.”
- A RUSSIAN JESTER AND HIS JOKES.
- The Flashes of Repartee.
- The Sexes.
- CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WOMAN.
- THE PRAISE OF WOMEN.
- PARALLEL OF THE SEXES.
- FEMALE SOCIETY.
- WIFE—MISTRESS—LADY.
- MY MOTHER.
- LETTER TO A BRIDE.
- Moslem Wisdom.
- SHREWD DECISION OF ALI, CALIPH OF BAGDAD.
- THE WISDOM OF ALI.
- MOHAMMEDAN LOGIC.
- THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY.
- TURKISH EXPEDIENTS.
- Excerpta from Persian Poetry.
- EARTH AN ILLUSION.
- HEAVEN AN ECHO OF EARTH.
- A MORAL ATMOSPHERE.
- FORTUNE AND WORTH.
- BROKEN HEARTS.
- TO A GENEROUS MAN.
- BEAUTY’S PREROGATIVE.
- PROUD HUMILITY.
- FOLLY FOR ONE’S SELF.
- THE IMPOSSIBILITY.
- THE SOBER DRUNKENNESS.
- A WINE-DRINKER’S METAPHORS.
- FROM MIRTSA SCHAFFY.
- THE DOUBLE PLOT.
- THE WORLD’S UNAPPRECIATION.
- THE CALIPH AND SATAN.
- Epigrams.
- MARTIAL’S EPIGRAM ON EPIGRAMS.
- MIDAS AND MODERN STATESMEN.
- INSCRIBED ON A STATUE TO SLEEP.
- TO DR. ROBERT FREIND, WHO WROTE LONG EPITAPHS.
- THE FOOL AND THE POET.
- DUM VIVIMUS VIVAMUS.
- TO “MOLLY ASTON,”
- ON ONE IGNORANT AND ARROGANT.
- TO OUR BED.
- LATE REPENTANCE.
- ON A PALE LADY WITH A RED-NOSED HUSBAND.
- ON SOME SNOW THAT MELTED ON A LADY’S BREAST.
- SELYAGGI’S DISTICH ADDRESSED TO JOHN MILTON.
- DRYDEN’S AMPLIFICATION.
- ON BUTLER’S MONUMENT.
- OVERDRAWN COMPLIMENT.
- SUGGESTED BY A GERMAN TOURIST.
- ETERNITY.
- OCCASIONED BY THE LOSS OF A CLERGYMAN’S PORTMANTEAU,
- TO A LIVING AUTHOR.
- THE FRUGAL QUEEN.
- ON COMMISSARY GOLDIE’S BRAINS.
- GIVING AND TAKING.
- TO ——.
- THE LOVER TO HIS MISTRESS, WITH A PRESENT OF A MIRROR.
- TO A CAPRICIOUS FRIEND.
- MENDAX.
- ON FELL.
- ON AN ILL-READ LAWYER.
- WOMAN’S WILL.
- WELLINGTON’S NOSE.
- ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.
- BAD SONGSTERS.
- ON A BAD FIDDLER.
- ON A CERTAIN D.D.
- ON AN OLD LADY WHO MARRIED HER FOOTMAN.
- “HOT CORN.”
- BONNETS.
- PRUDENT SIMPLICITY.
- TO A FRIEND IN DISTRESS.
- HOG vs. BACON.
- A WARM RECEPTION.
- MEDICAL ADVICE.
- DEFINITION OF A DENTIST.
- WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
- A REFLECTION.
- “THE WOMAN GAVE ME OF THE TREE.”
- THE BLADES OF THE SHEARS.
- INVISIBLE.
- IMPERSONAL.
- AFFINITIES.
- THE CRIER WHO COULD NOT CRY.
- THE PARSON AND BUTCHER.
- THE CLOCK.
- MASCULINE.
- IN RETURN FOR A LADY’S SKETCH OF THE APOLLO.
- WIDOWS.
- AFTER GOING TO LAW.
- SAME JAWBONE.
- A FUNNY DETERMINATION.
- MARRIAGE À LA MODE.
- QUID PRO QUO.
- WOMAN—CONTRA.
- WOMAN—PRO.
- ABUNDANCE OF FOOLS.
- THE WORLD.
- TERMINER SANS OYER.
- DOUBLE VISION UTILIZED.
- Impromptus.
- Refractory Rhyming.
- Valentines.
- A STRATEGIC LOVE-LETTER.
- WRITTEN IN SYMPATHETIC INK.
- CRYPTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
- MACAULAY’S VALENTINE.
- TEUTONIC ALLITERATION.
- A LOVER TO HIS SWEETHEART.
- CARDIAC EFFUSION.
- MACARONIC VALENTINE.
- A COLORED MAN’S LOVE-LETTER.
- UNPUBLISHED VERSES OF THOMAS MOORE.
- EGYPTIAN SERENADE.
- PETITIONS.
- THE MAIDS AND WIDOWS.
- A MALADROIT PETITION.
- Sonnets.
- WRITING A SONNET.
- IN A FASHIONABLE CHURCH.
- THE PROXY SAINT.
- ABOUT A NOSE.
- DYSPEPSIA.
- HUMILITY.
- AVE MARIA.
- Conformity of Sense to Sound.
- ARTICULATE IMITATION OF INARTICULATE SOUNDS.
- IMITATION OF TIME AND MOTION.
- IMITATION OF DIFFICULTY AND EASE.
- Familiar Quotations from Unfamiliar Sources.
- No Cross, no Crown.
- Corporations have no souls.
- Men are but children of a larger growth;
- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Consistency a Jewel.
- Cleanliness next to Godliness.
- He’s a brick.
- When you are at Rome do as the Romans do.
- A Nation of Shopkeepers.
- Only a pauper.
- Taking time by the forelock.
- What will Mrs. Grundy say?
- Though lost to sight, to memory dear.
- Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- So much the worse for the facts.
- Conspicuous by its absence.
- Do as I say, not as I do.
- Churchyard Literature.
- HIC JACET SACRUM MEMORIÆ.
- EPITAPHS OF EMINENT MEN.
- SIR ISAAC NEWTON, OB. 1727, ÆT. 85.
- JOHNSON’S EPITAPH ON GOLDSMITH.[26]
- COWPER’S EPITAPH ON DR. JOHNSON.
- GEORGE WASHINGTON, ob. Dec. 14, 1799, æt. 67.
- WILLIAM HOGARTH.
- LORD BROUGHAM’S EPITAPH ON WATT, WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
- EULOGISTIC, APT, APPROPRIATE.
- BEN JONSON’S ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE.
- ON ANOTHER LADY FRIEND.
- ANDREW JACKSON’S EPITAPH ON HIS WIFE.
- BISHOP LOWTH’S EPITAPH ON HIS DAUGHTER.
- IN THE CHURCHYARD OF OLD ST. PANCRAS.
- MALHERBE’S EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY.
- IN ST. MARY’S CHURCH, NOTTINGHAM.
- AT WESTFIELD, N. J.
- AT QUINCY, MASS.
- IN CRANSTON, R.I.
- ON THE TOMB OF MRS. DUNBAR, TRENTON, N.J.
- POPE’S EPITAPH ON HARCOURT.
- ON A SPANISH GIRL WHO DIED BROKEN-HEARTED.
- AT BARNSTABLE, MASS.
- AT GRIMSTEAD, ESSEX.
- AT BATON ROUGE, LA.
- AT ELIZABETH CITY, N. J.
- ON SIR THOMAS VERE.
- BEN JONSON’S EPITAPH ON MICHAEL DRAYTON.
- IN TICHFIELD CHURCH, HANTS.
- ON INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
- ON AN INFANT.
- ON FOUR INFANTS BURIED IN THE SAME TOMB.
- IN MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY.
- ON A LITTLE BOY IN GREENWOOD CEMETERY.
- ON THE TOMBSTONE OF A CHILD BLIND FROM BIRTH.
- ON A CHILD FOUR YEARS OLD, WHO WAS BURNED TO DEATH.
- AT LITIZ, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA.
- COPIED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
- ON A TOMBSTONE IN AUVERGNE.
- HISTORICAL EPITAPH.
- BIOGRAPHICAL.
- ON THE MONUMENT OF A DROPSICAL LADY.
- AT THE OLD MEN’S HOSPITAL, NORWICH, ENG.
- IN THE ABBEY CHURCH OF CONWAY.
- AT WOLSTANTON.
- IN THE CHURCHYARD OF HEYDON.
- IN THE CHURCHYARD OF PEWSEY, WILTSHIRE.
- IN CRAYFORD CHURCHYARD, KENT.
- AT WREXHAM, WALES.
- SELF-WRITTEN.
- MATTHEW PRIOR’S.
- COLERIDGE’S.
- JOHN BACON’S, TOTTENHAM COURT CHAPEL.
- DR. COOPER’S, EDINBURGH.
- POPE ADRIAN’S.
- SHEIL’S, (THE IRISH ORATOR).
- MORALIZING AND ADMONITORY.
- AT KENNEBUNK, MAINE.
- AT ANDOVER, MASS.
- IN LLANGOWEN CHURCHYARD, WALES.
- IN ST. SAVIOUR’S CHURCHYARD, SOUTHWARK.
- IN GILLINGHAM CHURCHYARD, ENG.
- GARRICK’S EPITAPH ON QUINN, ABBEY CHURCH, BATH.
- IN NEWINGTON CHURCHYARD.
- IN LINCOLNSHIRE, ENGLAND.
- ADVERTISING INSCRIPTIONS AND NOTICES.
- IN WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND.
- UNIQUE AND LUDICROUS EPITAPHS.
- ON A CONNECTICUT MAN WITH A REMARKABLE TUMOR.
- ON THE BELOVED PARTNER OF ROBERT KEMP.
- ON A MISER.
- REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
- ON MISS GWIN.
- EPITAPH FOR A GREAT TALKER.
- IN OTSEGO COUNTY, N. Y.
- IN A CHURCHYARD IN CORNWALL.
- IN MORETON CHURCHYARD.
- ON A WOOD-CUTTER, OCKHAM, SURREY, 1736.
- IN CHILDWALL PARISH, ENGLAND.
- AT OXFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
- A SOUTH CAROLINA TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED WORTH.
- ON AN EAST TENNESSEE LADY.
- FROM SOLYHULL CHURCHYARD, WARWICKSHIRE.
- IN DONCASTER CHURCHYARD, 1816.
- AT SARAGOSSA, SPAIN.
- ROCHESTER’S EPITAPH ON CHARLES II.
- FROM A GRAVESTONE IN ESSEX, ENGLAND.
- FROM THETFORD CHURCHYARD.
- IN A CHURCHYARD IN ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND.
- IN SWANSEA CHURCHYARD.
- AT NORTHALLERTON.
- ALL SAINTS, NEWCASTLE.
- IN CALSTOCK CHURCHYARD, CORNWALL.
- ON GENERAL WOLFE.
- REBECCA ROGERS, FOLKESTONE, 1688.
- IN DORCHESTER, MASS. 1661.
- IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE CHURCHYARD.
- IN BIDEFORD CHURCHYARD, KENT.
- IN WHITTLEBURY CHURCHYARD, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
- IN LONGNOR CHURCHYARD, STAFFORD.
- IN ROCHESTER CHURCHYARD, ENG.
- HUMPHREY COLE.
- IN EAST HARTFORD, CONN.
- ON A TOMBSTONE IN NEW JERSEY.
- IN A NEW ENGLAND GRAVEYARD.
- AT AUGUSTA, MAINE.
- MORTUARY PUNS.
- ON A YOUTH WHO DIED FOR LOVE OF MOLLY STONE.
- WILLIAM MORE, STEPNEY CHURCHYARD.
- IN SELBY CHURCHYARD, YORK.
- ON DU BOIS, BORN IN A BAGGAGE-WAGON, AND KILLED IN A DUEL.
- ON LILL.
- ON THOMAS GREENHILL, OXFORDSHIRE, 1624.
- ON A CORONER WHO HANGED HIMSELF.
- ON A CELEBRATED COOK.
- ON MR. FISH.
- ON TWO CHILDREN.
- ON MISS NOTT.
- ON MARY ANGEL, STEPNEY, 1693.
- ON MR. JOSEPH KING.
- On John Adams, of Southwell, a carrier, who died of drunkenness.—Byron.
- ON A LINEN-DRAPER.
- ON A WOMAN WHO HAD AN ISSUE IN HER LEG.
- FROM LLANFLANTWYTHYL CHURCHYARD, WALES.
- ON A LAST-MAKER.
- FROM ST. ANNE’S CHURCHYARD, ISLE OF MAN.
- CURIOUS AND PUZZLING EPITAPHS.
- Silo Princeps Fecit.
- FROM ST. AGNES’, LONDON.
- FROM A CHURCHYARD IN GERMANY.
- FROM CUNWALLOW CHURCHYARD, CORNWALL.
- FROM LAVENHAM CHURCH, NORFOLK, ENG.
- ON THE MONUMENT OF JOHN OF DONCASTER, 1579.
- IN THE CHURCHYARD OF LLANGERRIG, MONTGOMERYSHIRE.
- IN HADLEY CHURCHYARD, SUFFOLK.
- WRITTEN IN 1748.
- IN ST. PAUL’S, DEPTFORD.
- PARALLELS WITHOUT A PARALLEL.
- AT WINCHESTER, ENG.
- BATHOS.
- HOWELL’S EPITAPH ON CHARLES I.
- TRANSCENDENTAL.
- FROM THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. EDMUND’S, SALISBURY.
- CENTO.
- AT NORTHBOROUGH, MASS.
- ACROSTICAL.
- AT DORCHESTER, MASS.
- IN ASH CHURCH, KENT.
- ABORIGINAL.
- IN THE MOHEAGAN BURIAL-GROUND, CONN.
- ORONO, CHIEF OF THE PENOBSCOTS, OLDTOWN, MAINE, 1801, ÆT. 113
- AFRICAN.
- AT CONCORD, MASS.
- AT ATTLEBORO, MASS.
- HIBERNIAN.
- AT BELTURBET.
- AT MONKNEWTON, NEAR DROGHEDA.
- AT MONTROSE, 1757.
- AT ST. ANDREW’S, PLYMOUTH.
- AT LLANMYNECH, MONTGOMERYSHIRE.
- IN OXFORDSHIRE.
- GREEK EPITAPHS.
- ON MILTIADES.
- ON THE TOMB OF THEMISTOCLES.
- ON ÆSIGENES.
- ON TIMOCRITUS.
- ON THREE NEIGHBORING TOMBS.
- HELIODORA.
- FROM THE ALCESTIS OF EURIPIDES.
- ON A YOUNG BRIDE.
- ON A BACHELOR.
- ANTITHESIS EXTRAORDINARY.
- THE PRINTER’S EPITAPH.
- BREVITY.
- ON MR. MAGINNIS.
- LAUDATORY.
- EPITAPHIUM CHEMICUM.
- 1791.
- MISCELLANEOUS.
- ON SIR JOHN VANBRUGH, THE ARCHITECT.
- THE ORATOR’S EPITAPH.
- IN LYDFORD CHURCHYARD, NEAR DARTMOOR.
- AT KITTERY, MAINE.
- ON A SAN FRANCISCO MONEY-LENDER.
- ON AN IMPORTUNATE TAILOR.
- IN SOHAM CHURCHYARD, CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
- IN THE CHURCH OF ST. GREGORY, SUDBURY.
- IN LLANBEBLIG, CARNARVONSHIRE.
- ON AN INFIDEL.
- PROPOSED BY A FRENCH THEOLOGIAN FOR VOLTAIRE.
- ON TOM PAINE.
- EARTH TO EARTH.
- BYRON’S INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF HIS DOG.
- Inscriptions.
- TAVERN-SIGNS.
- ON A TAVERN-SIGN NEAR CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND.
- PUNISHMENT FOR TREASON.
- BEER-JUG INSCRIPTION.
- INSCRIPTIONS ON INN WINDOW-PANES.
- SHENSTONE’S, AT HENLEY.
- ON A WINDOW-PANE OF THE HOTEL SANS SOUCI, BADEN-BADEN.
- INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS.
- INSCRIPTIONS ON THE BELLS OF ST. MICHAEL’S, COVENTRY, CAST IN 1774.
- FLY-LEAF INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS.
- MOTTO ON A CLOCK.
- WATCH-PAPER INSCRIPTION.
- SUN-DIAL INSCRIPTIONS.
- INSCRIPTION OVER A SPRING.
- INSCRIPTIONS ON AN ÆOLIAN HARP.
- AT THE ENDS.
- ON THE SIDE.
- HOUSE INSCRIPTIONS.
- MEMORIALS.
- FRANCKE’S ENCOURAGING DISCOVERY.
- GOLDEN MOTTOES.
- POSIES FROM WEDDING-RINGS.
- LADY KATHERINE GREY’S WEDDING-RING.
- Parallel Passages.
- INCLUDING IMITATIONS, PLAGIARISMS, AND ACCIDENTAL COINCIDENCES.
- SHAKSPEREAN RESEMBLANCES.
- BOLD PLAGIARISM.
- HISTORICAL SIMILITUDES.
- HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.
- THE TWO STATESMEN.
- THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON.
- PRECEDENCY.
- THE LEGEND OF BETH GELERT.
- ART STORIES.
- BALLADS AND LEGENDS.
- BURIAL ALIVE.
- RING STORIES.
- DEATH PROPHECIES.
- BATTLES.
- BISHOP HATTO.
- Prototypes.
- THE OLDEST PROVERB.
- SHAKSPEARE SAID IT FIRST.
- CINDERELLA’S SLIPPER.
- CURTAIN LECTURES.
- THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
- THE FAUST LEGENDS.
- AIR CUSHIONS.
- THE CAT IN THE ADAGE.
- CORK LEGS.
- THE POPE’S BULL AGAINST THE COMET.
- SWAPPING HORSES.
- WOODEN NUTMEGS.
- TRADE UNIONS.
- CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
- THE ORIGINAL SHYLOCK.
- EXCOMMUNICATION.
- NAPOLEON I.
- THE FALLS OF LANARK.
- TURGOT’S EPIGRAPH ON FRANKLIN.
- THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
- THE KNOW-NOTHINGS.
- THE ORIGINAL OF BUNYAN’S PILGRIM’S PROGRESS.
- ROBINSON CRUSOE: WHO WROTE IT?
- PROVERB MISASCRIBED TO DEFOE.
- THE USE OF LANGUAGE.
- SCANDINAVIAN SKULL CUPS.
- GREAT LITERARY PLAGIARISM.
- OLD BALLADS.
- THE WANDERING JEW.
- Curious Books.
- ODD TITLES OF OLD BOOKS,
- THE MOST CURIOUS BOOK IN THE WORLD.
- SILVER BOOK.
- BOOK AMATEURS.
- Literariana.
- THE LETTERS OF JUNIUS.
- GRAY’S ELEGY.
- SCENE FROM THE PARTING INTERVIEW OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.
- POPE’S VERSIFICATION.
- IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION.
- INDIAN HERALDRY.
- THE ANACHRONISMS OF SHAKSPEARE.
- SHAKSPEARE’S HEROINES.
- SHAKSPEARE AND TYPOGRAPHY.
- SHAKSPEARE’S SONNETS.
- HAMLET’S AGE.
- HAMLET’S INSANITY.
- ADDITIONAL VERSES TO HOME, SWEET HOME.
- THE STEREOTYPED FALSITIES OF HISTORY.
- CONFLICTING TESTIMONY OF EYE-WITNESSES.
- WIT AND HUMOR.
- AN OLD PAPER.
- COMFORT FOR BOOK LOVERS.
- LETTERS AND THEIR ENDINGS.
- STUDIES AND BOOKS.
- Literati.
- ATTAINMENTS OF LINGUISTS.
- LITERARY ODDITIES.
- CULTURE AND SACRIFICE.
- A LITERARY SCREW.
- DRYDEN AND HIS PUBLISHER.
- Personal Sketches and Anecdotes.
- ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON.
- ANECDOTE OF LAFAYETTE.
- NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
- MILTON AND NAPOLEON.
- PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF NAPOLEON.
- HIS OPINION OF SUICIDE.
- DR. FRANKLIN’S WIFE.
- MAJOR ANDRÉ.
- AN ENGLISH VIEW OF ANDRÉ AND ARNOLD.
- FLAMSTEED, THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL.
- LORD NELSON’S SANG-FROID.
- MARTIN LUTHER.
- QUEEN ELIZABETH.
- SHAKSPEARE’S ORTHODOXY.
- OLIVER CROMWELL.
- POPE’S SKULL.
- WICKLIFFE’S ASHES.
- TALLEYRANDIANA.
- PORSON.
- Historical Memoranda.
- THE FIRST BLOOD SHED IN OUR REVOLUTION.
- THE “TEA-PARTY” AND THE “TEA-BURNING.”
- THE UNITED STATES NAVY.
- ORIGIN OF THE NAVY.
- QUAKER “MALIGNANTS.”
- AN AMERICAN MONARCHY.
- THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.
- THE FRENCH TRICOLOR.
- THE POLITICAL GAMUT.
- THE FLIGHT OF EUGENIE.
- NAPOLEON III.
- THE EMPIRE IS PEACE.
- JEFFERSON ON MARIE ANTOINETTE.
- GENERAL BLÜCHER.
- THE MOTHER OF CHARLES V.
- THE TRADITIONAL MARY MAGDALENE.
- MOTHER GOOSE.
- HISTORY AND FICTION.
- CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM.
- GREAT EVENTS FROM LITTLE CAUSES.
- THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
- THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
- THE STORY OF TWO FAVORITE BALLADS.
- ANNIE LAURIE.
- ROBIN ADAIR.
- JOAN OF ARC.
- AMY ROBSART.
- WILLIAM TELL.
- THE TIME OF LE GRAND MONARQUE.
- THE BITER BIT.
- THE LAST NIGHT OF THE GIRONDISTS.
- QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE RING.
- Multum in Parvo.
- Life and Death.
- BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS OF LIFE.
- THE ROUND OF LIFE.
- RULES OF LIVING.
- DR. FRANKLIN’S MORAL CODE.
- EMPLOYMENT OF TIME.
- LIVING LIFE OVER AGAIN.
- RHYMING DEFINITIONS.
- EARTH.
- RHYMING CHARTER.
- HOPTON, IN THE COUNTY OF SALOP.
- NICE QUESTIONS FOR LAWYERS.
- THE BONE NOT DESCRIBED BY MODERN ANATOMISTS.
- DYING WORDS OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS.
- THE LAST PRAYER OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.
- REMARKABLE TRANCE.
- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION.
- PRESERVED BODIES.
- FOLLY OF EMBALMING CORPSES.
- WHIMSICAL WILL.
- THE TRIPOD.
- IMPRECATORY EPITAPH.
- THE FLEUR-DE-LIS.
- THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT.
- A STORY OF LONG AGO.
- THIS IS NOT OUR HOME.
- ILL SUCCESS IN LIFE.
- FUTURITY.
- THE HEART.
- EVENING PRAYER.
- BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT.
- LIFE’S PARTING.
- DESTINY.
- SYMPATHY.
- AFTER.
- DEATH’S FINAL CONQUEST.
- THE COMMON HERITAGE.
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