Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta
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COLLATED BY
C. C. BOMBAUGH, A.M., M.D.
“So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.” Ruth 2:17.
“I have here made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the string that ties them.”—Montaigne.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
1890.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
A. D. WORTHINGTON & CO.
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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Prefatory.
INTRODUCTION.
Contents.
Alphabetical Whims.
LIPOGRAMMATA AND PANGRAMMATA.
ACROSTICS.
ANAGRAMS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PARALLELISM OF THE HEBREW POETRY.
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.
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.
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.
UNCONSCIOUS OR UNINTENTIONAL PUNS.
RUSSIAN DOUBLE ENTENDRE.
CLASSICAL PUNS AND MOTTOES.
PUNNING MOTTOES OF THE ENGLISH PEERAGE.
JEUX-DE-MOTS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
THE FIRST PRAYER IN CONGRESS.
THE FIRST REPORTERS.
THE FIRST EPIGRAM.
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.
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.
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.
Churchyard Literature.
EPITAPHS OF EMINENT MEN.
EULOGISTIC, APT, APPROPRIATE.
ON INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
HISTORICAL EPITAPH.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
SELF-WRITTEN.
MORALIZING AND ADMONITORY.
ADVERTISING INSCRIPTIONS AND NOTICES.
UNIQUE AND LUDICROUS EPITAPHS.
MORTUARY PUNS.
CURIOUS AND PUZZLING EPITAPHS.
PARALLELS WITHOUT A PARALLEL.
BATHOS.
TRANSCENDENTAL.
CENTO.
ACROSTICAL.
ABORIGINAL.
AFRICAN.
HIBERNIAN.
GREEK EPITAPHS.
ANTITHESIS EXTRAORDINARY.
THE PRINTER’S EPITAPH.
BREVITY.
ON MR. MAGINNIS.
LAUDATORY.
EPITAPHIUM CHEMICUM.
MISCELLANEOUS.
EARTH TO EARTH.
BYRON’S INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF HIS DOG.
Inscriptions.
TAVERN-SIGNS.
BEER-JUG INSCRIPTION.
INSCRIPTIONS ON INN WINDOW-PANES.
INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS.
FLY-LEAF INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS.
MOTTO ON A CLOCK.
WATCH-PAPER INSCRIPTION.
SUN-DIAL INSCRIPTIONS.
INSCRIPTION OVER A SPRING.
INSCRIPTIONS ON AN ÆOLIAN HARP.
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.
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.
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 STORY OF TWO FAVORITE BALLADS.
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.
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.
INDEX.
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