English Satires

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CONTENTS.

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

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 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]
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]

SAMUEL JOHNSON
[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	[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
[LVII.]	Bossuet and the Duchess of Fontanges	[218]

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]
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]

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