INDEX.

The Authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in italics, followed by the Parodies. The Authors of the Parodies are named in italics.

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Joseph Addison.
On the Immortality of the Soul. “Cato”[311]
Mitchell’s Soliloquy. 1729[311]
The Belle’s Soliloquy. J. P. Roberdeau[312]
Lady Townley’s Soliloquy[312]
“Ovid, it must be so--thou reason’st well”[312]
Joseph Addison’s prose writings parodied in Posthumous Parodies. 1814[312]
Rev. Richard Harris Barham.
The Ingoldsby Legends[293]
Misadventures at Margate[293]
The Vulgar Little Boy[294]
Misadventures at the Mansion House. Truth[295]
The Little Vulgar (Scotch) Boy. Punch. 1881[296]
Sixty Years after. The Globe. 1887[296]
The Little Bulgar Boy. Punch. 1885[297]
The Boy and the Bear. Punch. 1887[297]
The Jackdaw of Rheims. 1837[297]
The Story of the Latest Curse. Truth. 1888[298]
The Execution[299]
The Frolics of Boreas[300]
A Parliamentary Legend[300]
The Lord of Intrigue. 1876.[301]
The Devil’s Billiard Match. Rare Bits.[301]
A Row in the Upper Circles. Judy. 1880[302]
The Enchanted Net. Mirth & Metre. 1855[303]
Handy Jack. Punch. 1882[304]
The Cardinal’s Hat. Ipsedixit. 1851[304]
Temptation of the Good St. Gladstone. 1886[305]
The Roll Scroll of the Odd Volumes. 1888[306]
Barney Maguire on the Coronation. 1837[306]
Barney Maguire on the Jubilee. Lady’s Pictorial[307]
A Lay of St. Dunstan’s. 1882 (on Temple Bar and the Griffin)[308]
Pigeon shooting at Hurlingham. R. L. Francis[309]
A I Laye a-thynkyne[310]
As I Sate a-drynkynge[310]
The Jingoldsby Legends. 1882[311]
The Corkscrew Papers. 1876[311]
Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Contradictory statements as to her birth[228]
Mr. Ingram’s final settlement of the date[229]
Mrs. Browning’s personal appearance[229]
The Cry of the Children[229]
The Wail of the Children. Punch. 1884[230]
The Bitter Cry of Agriculture. J. D. Beeston[230]
Church or Stage. The Referee. 1884[231]
Down East. Edmund H. Yates[231]
Gwendoline. Echo Club Papers, Bayard Taylor[232]
A Tool of Trade[232]
The Origin of Pan. Harry Furniss[232]
The Rhyme of Sir Launcelot Bogle[233]
The Spirit of Mrs. Browning to her husband. From Strange Visitors. New York. 1869[273]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The Ancient Mariner. 1798[107]
The Sheriff’s Officer. 1834[108]
Le lecturé malgré lui. 1847[108]
The Rhime of the Seedy Barrister. 1847[109]
The Prolix Orator. 1849[110]
The Rime of the Ancient Alderman. In V. Parts. Shirley Brooks. 1855[110]
The Ancient Mariner, or the Deceived Husband[112]
Classical versus Modern. 1869[113]
New Version of Ancient Mariner. W. J. Wiegand.[113]
The Rime of the Modern Shipowner. 1873[113]
The Fight of the Fifth of November. 1874[114]
The Rime of the Ancient Premier. 1875[115]
The Rime of ye Ancient Dowager. 1876. (On Henry Irving in Othello)[115]
The Wedding Guest’s Version. 1878[116]
The Rhyme of the Ancient Blue. 1881[117]
The Rime of the Potent Minister. 1882[117]
Our Regimental Mess. E. Oliver[118]
An American Version. 1885[118]
The Admiralty Goose. 1885[118]
The Rime of the Antient Missionere. 1886[119]
Ye Ancient Father Thames. Truth Competition Parodies. 1884[120]
The Lay of the Modern Millinere. 1886[121]
The Ancient Philosopher. W. J. Prowse. 1868[122]
The Rime of the Ancient Waggonere. 1819[122]
The Cockney Mariner. G. A. à Beckett. 1846[122]
The Rime of the New-made Baccalere. 1841[122]
The Wise Men of Gotham. T. L. Peacock.[123]
It was an Ancient Marriager. 1885[123]
The Rime of the Ancient Statesman. 1874[123]
The Birmingham Speech, by W. E. G. 1880[123]
The Rime of the Ancient Rinking Man. 1876[123]
The Meeting of the Justices. 1867[123]
The Ancient Story (Tichborne case)[136]
Love[123]
The Power of Science. J. B. Stephens. 1880[124]
To a Young Ass. 1794[126]
Playhouse Musings. Rejected Addresses. 1812[125]
Kubla Khan.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan[126]
In Hungerford did some wise man. 1844[127]
Christabel. 1797[127]
Continuation by Dr. Maginn. 1819[129]
The Dream. Warreniana. 1824[131]
A Parody of Christabelle. The Dejeuné. 1820[133]
Christobell, a Gothic Tale. 1815[135]
Geraldine, a sequel to Christabel. Martin F. Tupper. 1838[135]
Christabel, continued. Eliza Stewart. 1841[135]
Christabess, by S. T. Colebritche. 1816[135]
Isabelle. James Hogg. 1816[135]
The Cherub. 1816[135]
Chrystabelle; or, the Rose without a Thorn. Edmund Falconer. 1860[135]
Notes of other Parodies of Christabel[135]
A Vision. Thomas Moore. 1826[135]
Fragment of a Vision. William Maginn. 1821[136]
The Devil’s Progress on Earth[189]
The Devil’s Walk, variously ascribed to Professor Porson, Robert Southey, and to S. T. Coleridge[189]
Various Imitations[190]
Satan Reformer. 1832[191]
The Devil’s Drive. Lord Byron.[191]
Death’s Walk. 1832[192]
The Printer’s Devil’s Work. 1832[192]
The Devil’s Dream. The Hornet. 1871[193]
The Devil’s Politics. 1878[194]
The Forestaller’s Walk. 1881[194]
The Devil’s Walk. 1883[194]
The Devil’s latest Walk. 1887[195]
The Devil’s Excursion to London. W. Phillips[195]
There’s a Lying Spirit Abroad. E. A. Beard[196]
William Collins.
Ode on the Passions[312]
Ode to the Passions[313]
The Aspirants. An Ode for Music. From Posthumous Parodies. 1814[313]
The Victims. Thomas Dibdin. 1813[314]
The Sessions. An Ode for Music. C. H. Waring[314]
Ode to the Fashions. Comic News. 1864[315]
William Cowper.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin. 1782.[64]
Mrs. Gilpin riding to Edmonton[67]
The History of Moore’s Life of Byron. 1831[67]
A Ballad for all True Sportsmen. 1845. “Prince Albert is a Sportsman Bold”[67]
The Political John Gilpin. (George Bentinck)[68]
The new John Gilpin. (Sir Robert Peel.) 1846[68]
The Modern Peeping Tom. (Viscount Ranelagh). 1868[69]
The Railway Gilpin[70]
The Diverting History of Tom Tucker. 1831[71]
John Gilpin’s Voyage to Vauxhall. 1885[71]
Davy Jones. B. de Burgh. 1823[71]
John Gilpin in Latin[71]
The Connaught Rangers. 1876[72]
Paudy and the Mormon. J. H. Turner. 1878[72]
Burbaban’s Defeat. 1863[86]
The Modern Gilpin, or the adventures of John Oldstock. 1838[322]
The Rose[72]
Cowper’s first draft of the poem[72]
My Uniform, by a Volunteer in 1860[72]
April, or the new hat. C. S. Calverley[73]
The Rink had been washed. A. W. Mackenzie[73]
The Rose and the Buckets. 1812[73]
To Mary
Mary Anderson. 1883[73]
The Negro’s Complaint[74]
On the Death of the Princess of Wales. 1819[76]
Bishop Philpott’s Complaint. 1833[74]
Lord Grey’s Complaint. 1834[74]
Jumbo s Jeremiad. 1882[74]
The School Boy’s Complaint[75]
Farewell to the Camp. Shirley Brooks. 1853[75]
“I am Monarch of all I survey”[76]
Verses supposed to have been written by Leigh Hunt. “I am tenant of nine-feet by four”[77]
Verses ascribed to the Duke of Wellington[77]
The Monarch of all they survey. By a Railway Director. 1845[78]
Verses ascribed to William Smith O’Brien.[78]
The original song of Robinson Crusoe. 1848[78]
Ballad of the Exeter Arcade Beadle. 1848[79]
A Savage Parody. 1867[79]
Lines by the “Head of the Family.” 1871[79]
“She is Monarch of all she surveys.” 1874[80]
Enforced Solitude. 1874[80]
Verses ascribed to Dr. E. V. Kenealy. 1875[80]
The Frozen-out Fox Hunter. The World. 1879[81]
The Lay of the New Ameer. 1879[81]
Ex-King Cetewayo’s Lament. 1879[81]
I am “Cock of the Walk.” F. B. Doveton[82]
The Griffin’s Lament. 1880[82]
The Parvenu. 1882[82]
Lawn Tennis. A. W. Mackenzie. 1883[83]
On the Annexation of New Guinea. 1883[83]
Soliloquy by a Disgusted Dandy. 1883[83]
Verses by Salisbury Selkirk. 1884[84]
The Tortures of Tourists. 1885[84]
The Limited “Monarch.” 1885[85]
A song for Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. 1886[85]
The Lament of the Sportive M.P. 1886[85]
Verses by Sir Charles Warren. 1887[86]
Lines supposed to be written by Robinson Crusoe. C. M. Fanshawe[102]
A Riddle by William Cowper. 1806[86]
The Answer[86]
“Bless my Heart, how Cold it is”[87]
Thomas Gray.
An Elegy wrote in a Country Church-yard. 1751[1]
A Reprint of the first edition, and history of the poem.
An Evening contemplation in a College. 1753 John Duncombe, M.A.[3]
The Nunnery, an Elegy[5]
Elegy on “The Guardian outwitted.” 1764[6]
An Epitaph on a certain Poet[7]
An Elegy in Covent Garden. 1777[7]
An Elegy in Westminster Hall[9]
An Elegy written in St. Stephens. 1784[10]
Elegy written in a Grub street Garret. 1789[10]
Elegy written in Bartlemy Fair. 1810[11]
Elegy written in Drury Lane Theatre. 1818[12]
Elegy written at a Christmas Feast. 1803[13]
Elegiac Stanzas written in a London Alley[14]
Elegy on the Last of the Lotteries[15]
Elegy written in King’s Bench Prison. 1821[16]
  “    “     “    “   by A Minor.[17]
Epitaph on a late Administration. 1811[18]
An Elegy in a London Churchyard. 1799[18]
Nightly Thoughts in the Temple. 1806[19]
Nocturnal Contemplations in Barham Downs Camp. 1806[20]
Elegy on a Pair of Breeches. T. Brand. 1818[22]
Elegy written in a College Library. 1824[22]
Elegy on the Death of Bow Fair. 1823[23]
The Long Vacation, 1823[23]
Lucubrations in an Apothecary’s shop[24]
Elegy on Sir Francis Burdett, M.P. 1811[24]
Elegy addressed to a little Attorney. 1819[25]
Elegy written in the Long Vacation. 1831[26]
The Woes of Change. T. Dibdin. 1832[26]
The Gambler. 1832[27]
Dry Goods: A Manchester Elegy. 1833[28]
Meditations on Barry’s New Houses of Parliament. 1844[28]
Elegy in a London Theatre. 1843[29]
Night Thoughts. Albert Smith (?) 1848[30]
Elegy in a London Churchyard. 1849[30]
  “       “     “   Diogenes. 1853[30]
Elegy on a Betting office. 1853[31]
Elegy written in a Railway Station. 1853[31]
Elegy written near a Suburban Station House.[32]
A Lunatic Parody. Fun. 1865[33]
Elegy written in the House of Commons. 1867[33]
An Elegy on Cremation. 1875[34]
Lament of the Eminent One. (H. Irving.) The Figaro, 1875[34]
Elegy written in Rotten Row. 1876[34]
Elegy written in a Country Skating Rink. 1877[35]
Cremorne: An Elegy. 1878[36]
Circuit Elegy. By Lord Chelmsford. 1881[36]
Elegy on a favourite Washerwoman. 1882[37]
Gray’s Elegy in an Irish Prison. 1882[38]
The S.K. Ring’s Requiem. 1886[38]
Parnell-egy in Westminster Palace. 1887[38]
Epitaph on “The Pic-Nic.” 1803[39]
Epitaph on a noted Highwayman. 1806[39]
A Political Parody. The British Press. 1812[39]
Elegy in St Stephen’s Chapel. 1809[40]
Elegy for “The Mirror.” 1825[41]
Elegy written in a Town Church-yard. 1885[41]
Elegy in Newall’s Buildings[42]
The Scales[42]
Lord Grey’s Elegy. 1881[42]
A Perversion[42]
The Author[42]
Pensive in a Bone Yard. 1885[42]
Imitations of “The Elegy”[42]
A Supplement to Gray’s “Elegy.” 1823[42]
The Foundlings. An Elegy. 1763[43]
An Evening Contemplation in a French Prison. 1809[43]
An Elegy written under a Gallows. 1768[43]
Lord Mayor’s Day. A Mock Elegy. 1786[43]
Elegy written at Bristol Hot Wells. 1789[44]
Elegy written in Poet’s Corner. 1803[44]
The Nunnery[44]
Elegy written on a Field of Battle. 1818[44]
Elegy written in a City Churchyard. 1848[44]
Translations of “The Elegy”[44]
“The Elegy” in French[45]
Articles and Notes on “The Elegy”[48]
Legs in Tattersall’s yard. 1828[46]
An Elegy on the Departed Season. 1867[47]
“The Elegy” in Latin[317]
An Imitation of the “Elegy.” By a Sailor[317]
Elegy in Newgate. The Satirist. 1810[317]
Elegy written in the Temple Gardens, by Mr. Justice Hayes[317]
Elegy written in a Ball Room. W. Maginn[318]
The Elegy “travestied.” The Umpire. 1888[318]
“Wimbledon,” an Elegy. July 1888. E. B. Anstee, L.R.B.[319]
Parody in The Court of Session Garland by Colin Maclaurin[320]
INDEX TO FIRST LINES.
The Curfeu tolls the knell of parting Day[2]
The Curfew tolls the hour of closing gates[3]
Retirement’s hour proclaims the tolling Bell[5]
The shrill bell rings the knell of “Curtain rise”[6]
St. Paul’s proclaims the solemn midnight hour[7]
The Courts are shut--departed every Judge[9]
Gazettes now toll the melancholy knell[10]
Now sinks the sun within the azure main[10]
The clock bell tolls the hour of early day[11]
The prompter rings the lofty curtain down[12]
The clock proclaims the welcome dinner hour[13]
The watchman drawls the hour of dawning day[14]
The Chancellor has passed the stern decree[15]
The turnkey rings the bell for shutting out[16]
The surly crier rings his nightly knell[17]
Great Tom now sounds the close of busy day[18]
St. Dunstan’s bells proclaim departing day[19]
The moon slow setting sends a parting ray[20]
The chapel bell, with hollow mournful sound[22]
The Bow-bell tolls the knell of Bow-fair fun[23]
My Lord now quits his venerable seat[23]
The twilight curtains round the busy day[24]
The pealing clock proclaims the close of day[24]
The Judges toll the knell of Burdett’s fame[24]
The vacant seats proclaim the parting day[26]
Improvement tolls the knell of what, of yore[26]
The lamps refract the gleam of parting day[27]
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day[28]
The wharf-bell tolls the knell of starting steam[28]
The curtain falls, the signal all is o’er[29]
Saint Martin tolls the hour of long past day[30]
The sexton tolls the knell till parting day[30]
St. Clement’s tolls the knell of parting day[30]
The Station clock proclaims the close of day[31]
The muffin-bell proclaims the parting day[32]
The curlew rolls amidst the darting spray[33]
The big clock tolls the knell of parting day[33]
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day[34]
The Park proclaims the season’s had its day[34]
The church clock strikes the knell of parting day[35]
The builder tolls the knell of Cremorne’s day[36]
The trumpets sound the coming of the Judge[36]
Farewell old friend, and memory ever dear[37]
They think to toll the knell of prisoned Gray[38]
The turret-clock proclaims the hour eleven[38]
The clock-tow’r tolls the bell of coming day[38]
The candles tell the close of parting day[40]
The pealing clock proclaims the close of day[41]
The church-bells peal the message[41]
The clanging crow-bar rings the pile’s decay[42]
The piano sounds the knell of parting day[42]
Rads toll the knell of England’s passing day[42]
Le rappel a marqué le jour en son déclin[45]
The dustman tolls the coming of the morn[46]
The porter tolls the bell on starting day[47]
The whistle shrieks the knell of parting day[48]
The Curfew tolls the hour of locking up[317]
The gard’ner rings the bell at close of day[317]
The beaux are jogging on the pictured floor[318]
The shops are closed--the sign of closing day[318]
The sound of gunfire marked the closing day[319]
The bell now tolls, soon after dawn of day[320]
Ode on the Spring [48]
Ode on the Spring, by a Man of Fashion[48]
Ode on the closing of the House of Commons[49]
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat[49]
’Twas in a new constructed boat. 1805[50]
’Twas on the pavement of a Lane. 1800[50]
’Twas on the lofty Treasury’s side. 1762[51]
Ode on the Amputation of a Cat’s Tail. 1795[51]
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 1747[51]
Ode on Ranelagh. 1775[52]
Ode to Sir John Soane. 1824[53]
Ode on the Distant Prospect of a Good Dinner. Blackwood’s Magazine. 1828[53]
Ode on a Prospect of the Abolition of Eton Montem. 1846[54]
Ode on a Close Prospect of Eton. 1882[54]
The Bard. A Pindaric Ode[54]
The Bard. A Covent Garden Ode. 1809[56]
The Union (Cambridge). 1817[57]
The Barber. Thomas Erskine. 1824[58]
“Ruin seize thee, ruthless Earl.” The World. Competition Parody. 1879[60]
“Ruin seize thee, reckless guide”[60]
“Plague upon thee, Earl of B----.” F. B. Doveton. 1880[61]
The Bostonian Prophet. 1779[61]
Parody in the Life of Mrs. M. A. Clarke. 1809. (Connected with the Duke of York)[61]
The Descent of Odin[61]
The Descent of Timothy. J. H. Beattie. 1794[61]
The Triumphs of Owen. Shirley Brooks. 1861[62]
Gray’s Pindaric Odes[63]
Ode to Oblivion.   By G. Colman[63]
Ode to Obscurity.   and R. Lloyd[63]
Ode for Music. Cambridge. 1769[63]
Two Travesties. 1786[63]
A Long Story[64]
A sequel. John Penn[64]
A sequel. Henry James Pye[64]
Latin translations of Gray’s Poems. 1775[64]
Mason’s continuation of Gray’s Ode[64]
Runic Odes, in the manner of Mr. Gray. Thomas James Mathias. 1781[64]
Ode in imitation of Gray. C. M. Fanshawe[102]
John Home.
My Name is Norval. (From “Douglas”)[206]
My name is Moses. J. P. Roberdeau[206]
My name’s the Doctor. 1819[207]
My name is Scragg’em[207]
My name’s Tom Dibdin. The Times. 1803[207]
My name is Whitbread. Morning Post. 1812[208]
My name is Canning. The Mélange. 1834[208]
My name is Lardner. 1831[208]
“My name is Norval,” burlesqued[208]
My name is Randolph. Figaro. 1886[209]
My name is Balfour. Fun. 1887[209]
Leigh Hunt.
Abou Ben Adhem[144]
Making up the Slate[144]
Ben Disraeli. 1867[144]
The Bluecoat Boy[144]
Abou Ben Folsom[144]
Adam Mac Adam[144]
Abou Ben Butler. 1886[145]
Francesca Da Rimini. Bon Gaultier Ballads[145]
A Nursery Ode. Warreniana[145]
Carlotta Grisi[145]
Song of October[146]
Manners (Lord John) and Civility[146]
Matthew Gregory Lewis.
Alonzo the Brave, and the fair Imogine[137]
Giles Jollup the grave, and Brown Sally Green[138]
Pilgarlic the Brave, and Brown Celestine[136]
St. George and Caroline. 1820[139]
Colenso the Brave. Shirley Brooks. 1865[139]
Alfonso of Spain. 1875[140]
A Terrible Tale. The Referee. 1884[140]
Fire and Ale. Rejected Addresses. 1812[141]
Fire and Water. 1887[142]
Peggy the Gay, and the Bold Roger Gray. The True Briton. 1799[321]
“A Bulldog so fierce, and a Spaniel so meek”[321]
The Little Green Man[321]
“Lemona was daughter of Hudda the Brave”[321]
The Erl King and the Cloud King[142]
The Cinder King [142]
The Fire King, the Water King, and the Cotton King. 1832.[142]
The old Hag in a Red Cloak. 1802[142]
The Squeaking Ghost. 1804[321]
Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton.
A Midnight Meditation. W. E. Aytoun[222]
The New Timon. 1846[223]
The New Timon and the Poets. A. Tennyson[223]
O, Darling room, my heart’s delight[223]
Lord Lytton’s foppery[224]
The Lady of Lyons. 1838[224]
The Bellows Mender. By W. T. Moncrieff[224]
Melnotte’s Speech on his (Visionary) Palace[224]
A Parody from “Cinderella.” Albert Smith[224]
A Parody from H. J. Byron’s burlesque “The very latest Edition of the Lady of Lyons”[225]
The Model Health Palace[225]
The Lady of Lyons Married and Settled. By H. C. Merivale[225]
The Sea Captain; or, the Birthright. 1839[225]
Thackeray’s burlesque criticism on the play[226]
The Rightful Heir. Lyceum Theatre. 1868[228]
The Frightful Hair; or, Who Shot the Dog?[228]
The Right-Fall Hair. H. T. Arden[228]
The very last Days of Pompeii. R. Reece[228]
An Epigram. W. S. Landor[228]
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay.
Lord Macaulay at tea[103]
The Armada. 1832[146]
A Conclusion by Dr. W. C. Bennett[146]
A Conclusion by the Rev. H. C. Leonard[147]
The Feast of Lanterns. Shirley Brooks. 1863[149]
The Lord Mayor’s Show. The World. 1879[150]
On Gladstone’s Midlothian Speeches. 1884[151]
Horatius [151]
The Fight of the Crescent. Cambridge. 1846[153]
Marcus Curtius, the Honest Lawyer. E. Allen[154]
Gustavus of Drury Lane. E. H. Yates. 1855[155]
Johnson. E. H. Yates. 1856[156]
Sibthorpius, Puppet Showman’s Album. 1848[159]
The Fight for the Championship (Thomas Sayers and Heenan, 1860). H. C. Pennell.[160]
The Fight of Sayerius and Heenanius. 1860[161]
The Battle of the Bridge (Blackfriars). 1869[162]
A Lay of Ancient Stoke. 1875[163]
Match between Dryburgh and Sludgeborough. Pastime. 1883[164]
The Battle of the Asses’ Bridge. J. M. Lowry.[165]
Harcourtius of Derbiae. Truth. 1884[166]
The Battle of the Institute (of Mechanical Engineers, November 5, 1875)[168]
A Lay of Modern England. Auberon Herbert. Pall Mall Gazette. 1884[169]
Lars Porsenna. College Rhymes. 1855[169]
Mustering of the Hobbies. 1847[170]
The Sibylline Books. 1856[170]
How Titus Manlius Macauleius was made a Patrician. 1857 [170]
The Battle of Lake Glenlivit. S. Lover. 1857[170]
Lay of Modern England. Punch. 1866[171]
The Lay of Mr. Colt. Bon Gaultier.[171]
The Great Durbar. Lyrics and Lays. 1867[172]
Before the Comitia. 1873[172]
The Dauntless Three. A Town and Gown Row. 1874[172]
Thanatos. By the Ghost of Macaulay. 1875[173]
Fifth of November. Town and Gown Row. By Adon. 1874[173]
Christ Church Beseiged. 1877[173]
Lay of the Last Commemoration Dinner. 1880[174]
Obstruction Utilised. 1881[174]
How Horatius kept the Bridge. The Blue. 1881[175]
A Lay of Modern Hammersmith. 1882[175]
How Gladstone won the Election. 1885[175]
Gladstonius. 1885[177]
“Now Joseph C. of Birmingham.” 1885[177]
A Lay of Modern London. 1880[177]
Volumnia[177]
The Battle of the Lake Regillus[178]
The Chiswick Flower Fête. 1846[179]
The Battle of the Vestries. The Tomahawk.[179]
A Lay of Modern London. 1872[180]
The Football Match. 1878[180]
A Prophecy of Capers. Fun.[181]
The Battle of Lake Mort. (The Boat race)[182]
The Dioscuri in Egypt. 1884[183]
In the Arena. 1888[183]
Henry of Navarre[184]
The War of the Normas. (On Jenny Lind and Grisi). Man in the Moon. 1847[184]
The Lord Mayor’s Show. 1884[184]
Ireland, 1890. Topical Times. 1886[184]
The Great Rent Case. 1867[185]
Ivry.
Before the Battle. The Daily News. 1886[185]
Lay of the (Royal) Amphitheatre. 1845[186]
A Lay of Modern England. 1847[186]
The Inauguration of the Mayor. 1851[186]
The City Tournament. Diogenes. 1853[187]
A Lay of Ancient Rome. Albert Smith.[187]
Burlington. J. D. Parley. 1872[187]
Routhe’s Revenge. Light Green. 1882[187]
The New Naseby [187]
Parodies in Punch [188]
Landbillia[188]
Hibernia[188]
Song of December[189]
The Laureate’s Tourney. Bon Gaultier[189]
A Lay of Modern Exon. Exeter 1879[322]
Rev. Thomas Moss.
The Beggar’s Petition
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Man. 1769[203]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Goose. 1804[203]
Hebrew translation. Kottabos. 1881[203]
Pity the Sorrows of a third class man. 1845[204]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old “Stag.” 1845[204]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old bridge. 1846[204]
The Begging Imposter’s Petition. 1849[205]
Pity the troubles of a poor young Prince. 1850[205]
Pity the sorrows of a poor young Girl. 1853[205]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Clerk. 1856[205]
Pity the sorrows of an ill-used Man. 1872[206]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Bar. 1874[206]
Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
The Chaunt of the Brazen Head.[196]
The Chaunt of the Political Brazen Head. 1882[196]
Plus de Politique. 1832[197]
A Lyric from Highbury. Pall Mall. 1886[197]
A Letter of Advice[197]
On an Election at the Athenæum. 1888[197]
I remember, I remember. 1833[198]
The Nelson Column Drama. 1843[198]
The Farmer’s Corn Law Song. 1846[198]
About the Weather[198]
The Bankrupt to the Commissioner. 1848[199]
Mistletoe Anticipations. Cuthbert Bede. 1851[199]
Good Night to the Season[199]
Good-bye to the Commons. 1880[200]
Vale. Punch. 1883[200]
A Parody from Life. 1883[201]
A Parody from Truth. 1885[201]
Farewell to the Season. 1886[201]
So the Jubilee’s over! Truth. 1887[202]
Good-bye to the (Cricketing) Season. Punch[324]
To a Jilt[202]
“Sleep, Mr. Speaker, ’tis surely fair.” By W. M. Praed[202]
Samuel Rogers.
The Pleasures of Memory. 1792[316]
The Pains of Memory. P. Bingham. 1812[316]
On a Tear[316]
On a Tear. Fun[316]
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Forged letters, published in 1852[233]
The Cenci, performance in 1886[233]
The Salacious Shelley Society. Truth 1886[233]
To a Skylark[233]
To a Bicycle. Moonshine. 1885[233]
The Cloud[234]
The Cloudy. The World. 1885[234]
The Cloud, from Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack[234]
The Other Cloud. Punch. 1880[235]
Seaward[235]
Thrown Out. Hugh Cayley[235]
The Tale of the Sensitive “Freak.” The Umpire[236]
Horace Smith.
Address to an Egyptian Mummy[236]
The Answer of the Egyptian Mummy[237]
Lines to the Western Mummy. Gallaudet[238]
On Sir Moses Montefiore. Botcher. 1884[238]
A Parody on Horace Smith’s “George Barnewell.” By Shirley Brooks. 1858[239]
William Makepeace Thackeray.
Violets. By L. E. L.[212]
Cabbages. W. M. Thackeray[212]
The Willow Tree. Two versions. Thackeray[213]
There were Three Sailors of Bristol City[214]
“There were three dwellers in Gotham City.” Punch. 1884[214]
There were some Commissioners. 1887[214]
Werther had a love for Charlotte[215]
Peg of Limavaddy. 1843[215]
A Beautified Being[216]
Whiskey, drink divine. 1840[216]
Henry (Irving) and Ellen (Terry). 1884[217]
The Battle of Limerick[217]
The Hampton Court Bicycle Meet. 1880[218]
The Battle of O’Brine. The Globe. 1887[218]
Love at Two Score[219]
Love at Sixteen[219]
The Snob’s version of the Cane-bottom’d Chair[220]
There was a King of Yvetot[220]
It was the “crack” news-maker. 1886[220]
“Inaugurative Ode” in The Cornhill Mag.[220]
When moonlike ore the hazure seas[220]
The Arcana of Cabinet-making[221]
The Ballad of a Rural Pleceman[221]
Old Fashioned Fun[222]
Edmund Waller.
Go lovely Rose![210]
Go, wedding cake! Diogenes. 1853[210]
Go, flaunting Rose! Punch. 1881[210]
Go, my Primrose! Punch. 1886[210]
Wanted--a Governess[211]
Wanted, an Alderman[211]
Wanted, an Editor[211]
William Wordsworth.
We are Seven[88]
The seven new Peers. 1831[88]
The Trustee[89]
Only seven. Henry S. Leigh. 1865[89]
They are three. Shotover Papers. 1874[90]
I’ve got seven. E. Compton. 1878[90]
Lay by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 1877[91]
The Ballad of the ’Bus. 1885[92]
They are seven. Fun. 1885[92]
We are seven. The Judge. 1885[92]
More than seven[93]
We are one[93]
We are seven (Irish M.P.’s). 1877[93]
They are five. 1877[94]
We are seven (Unionists), 1886[94]
Lucy. 1779[94]
On Wordsworth. Hartley Coleridge[94]
Jacob. Phoebe Carey. 1854[95]
Emancipation. F. B. Doveton.[95]
The Baby’s Debût. Rejected Addresses. 1812[95]
The Pet Lamb[96]
Rink, pretty creature, Rink. A. W. Mackenzie[96]
My Heart leaps up[96]
A Parody. William Maginn. 1820[97]
“I met an old man on the road.” 1811[97]
She was a Phantom of delight.[97]
“It was a phantom of delight.” 1886[97]
He was a great Panjandrum, quite. 1886[98]
Dusty Bob. Comic Magazine. 1834[98]
To the Cuckoo[98]
“O Blythe newspaper! From thy page.” By F. B. Doveton[98]
The Reverie of poor Susan[99]
The Reverie of a poor Squeezed ’un. 1885[99]
Violets, do what they will[99]
Fair women win the hearts of men. 1813[99]
What women make of men[99]
The Yarra-Yarra unvisited. 1872[100]
A Sonnet on the Sonnet[100]
French translation by M. de St. Beuve[100]
Scorn not the Meerschaum[101]
Oh! Bull, strong labourer. 1846[101]
Billy Routing. William Maginn[101]
The Kail Pot. Blackwood’s Magazine. 1821[101]
Billy Blinn. William Maginn[101]
There is a River clear and fair. C. M. Fanshawe[101]
Ralph Rattat. 1885[102]
The Poets at tea[103]
Containing imitations of
Lord Macaulay
Lord Tennyson
A. C. Swinburne
William Cowper
Robert Browning
William Wordsworth
E. A. Poe
D. G. Rossetti
Robert Burns
Walt Whitman
Ode on the Installation of Prince Albert. 1847[106]
Peter Bell[104]
A parody by Reynolds. 1819[104]
A Parody by Shelley[104]
The Dead Asses. 1819[104]
Benjamin the Waggoner. 1819[105]
Lord Byron on “Peter Bell.” 1820[105]
“There’s something in a flying horse.”
“There’s something in a stupid ass.”
A mood of my own mind. T. L. Peacock.[105]
Old Cumberland Pedlar. 1824[105]
The Stranger. James Hogg. 1816[105]
The Flying Tailor. 1816[105]
James Rigg. 1816[105]
Doctor Pill and Gaffer Quake[105]
Tim the Tacket. 1881[106]
William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate. 1843[106]

POETS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
All or Nothing. By Bayard Taylor[245]
Brahma. 1857[246]
Damn, ah![246]
Mutton[246]
Colonel John Hay.
Jim Bludso[246]
The Bloomin’ Flower of Rorty Gulch. Charles H. Ross[247]
Joseph Swife and Potiphar. Funny Folks. 1876[272]
The Mystery of Gilgal[247]
Big Bill. Bayard Taylor[248]
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Contentment[253]
Contentment, a Parody. St. James’ Gazette[253]
The Deacon’s Masterpiece[254]
Sequel to the “One Hoss Shay.” C. F. Adams[255]
Ode for a Social Meeting[255]
The Poet at the Breakfast Table. Funny Folks[255]
The Psycho-Physical Muse. Bayard Taylor[256]
The Wheelless. J. G. Dalton. 1880[256]
James Russell Lowell.
The Pious Editor’s Creed[248]
The Pious Chancellor’s Creed. Punch. 1878[249]
The Jingo’s Creed. Funny Folks. 1879[249]
The Unionist Editor’s Creed. Pall Mall. 1887[250]
Joe Chamberlain to Himself[250]
When Doctors Disagree[250]
On Recruiting[250]
Renegaders. William Guise. 1888[251]
The Official Explanation. Chicago News.[251]
Tennyson’s latest. 1882[251]
The Saga of Ahab Doolittle. Bayard Taylor[252]
Jonathan to John[276]
Joaquin Miller.
The Fate of the Frontiersman. Bayard Taylor[270]
Edgar Allan Poe.
E. A. Poe at tea[103]
Deborah Lee. American Paper[282]
Camomile Tea. Punch’s Almanac. 1883[283]
W. E. G. Judy. 1885.[283]
Albert McGee. University News Sheet.[284]
The Swells. Dramatic College Annual. 1868[284]
The Polls. St. James’s Gazette. 1885[285]
The Bills. Funny Folks. 1886[285]
The Sleigh Bells. Topical Times. 1886[285]
Autumn Bells. Fun. 1886[285]
The Bells. C. H. Waring. 1886[286]
The Christmas Party. American Paper[286]
The Bills. The Umpire. 1888[286]
Christmas Bills. Pippins and Cheese. 1868[286]
The Yells. John C. Morgan[286]
An Appeal (Parody of “The Raven.”) Relating to Ruddigore. Pall Mall Gazette[286]
An Artist’s Ravin’. Funny Folks[287]
The Weekly Dispatch parody competition, October 31, 1886. Poem by J. C. Rose[288]
Poem by F. B. Doveton[288]
“Joe” a Chamberlainian Dream. Pall Mall Gazette. 1887[288]
The Yankee Cryptogram. Topical Times. 1887[289]
A Vision. Prison Poems by T. D. Sullivan, M.P.[290]
Tullamore, The Weekly Dispatch. 1888[291]
A list of Parodies of “The Raven.”[291]
The Dutchman and the Raven[322]
The Whitechapel Murders. Marcus[323]
Christmas Boxes. Moonshine. 1887[291]
The Ladies, after Dinner[292]
To William (Gladstone). Saturday Review[292]
Leonainie. The Daily News. 1886[292]
The Lost Soul. Strange Visitors. 1869[292]
Walt Whitman.
Song of Myself; Miracles; On Thanksgiving Day[256]
To Walt Whitman in America. A. C. Swinburne[257]
A Parody from Once a Week. 1868[257]
Walt Whitman on Oxford. Shotover Papers.[257]
Home--sweet Home. H. C. Bunner[258]
This is a Poem. The Cambridge Meteor. 1882[258]
Camerados. Bayard Taylor[258]
A Parody from San Francisco[258]
A Parody from “The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys”[259]
A Parody from Judy. 1884[259]
Whitman in London. Punch. 1887[260]
A Pension for Walt Whitman[260]
St. Smith of Utah. Walter Parke[260]
Poem of the Ride. J. G. Dalton. 1880[262]
Pods of Pease. Rejected Tercentenary Songs[262]
A Mad Parson. Julian Sturgis. 1884[262]
Walt Whitman at tea[103]
John Greenleaf Whittier.
Maud Müller[239]
Mrs. Judge Jenkins, a sequel. Bret. Harte[240]
Kate Ketchem. Phœbe Carey[240]
Maud Müller in Dutch[241]
The Maud Müller (Improved)[242]
Maud Müller in Urbe[242]
The Modern Maud Müller. Cincinnati Paper[242]
Maud Müller and the Judge[243]
Maud Müller on the Ice. Brooklyn Eagle[243]
Miss Müller. Funny Folks. 1884[243]
Barbara Fritchie[244]
Barbara Fritchie in Dutch[244]
Hiram Hover. The Echo Club Papers[245]

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN POEMS.
Beautiful Snow. James M. Watson[268]
A History of the Poem by James Hogg[268]
Another version by Major Sigourney[269]
London Snow. The Globe. 1886[269]
That Beautiful Kiss[269]
A Critique on Adelina Patti[209]
“The Beautiful Snow,” extra verse. W. F. Fox[323]
The Gallant Three Hundred. (On the disputed authorship of the poem)[323]
Der Good-lookin Shnow[323]
By the Sad Sea Waves. Walter Parke. 1874[271]
His Mother-in-Law. San Francisco News Letter[272]
Falling leaf and fading tree[265]
Easy chair and soft young man[265]
Hans Breitmann’s Barty. C. G. Leland[270]
The Fate of the Four[270]
Her washing ended with the day. Phœbe Carey[273]
Leedle Yawcob Strauss. Charles F. Adams[267]
Leedle Eduard Strauss. Punch. 1885[267]
On the Pier. W. Wilkins in Kottabos[272]
Sheridan’s Ride. Thomas B. Read[262]
Schlosser’s Ride[263]
Schneider’s Ride[263]
A Sylvan Scene. Bayard Taylor[263]
Strange Visitors. Published in New York. 1869[273]
Trust not Man, for he’ll deceive you![263]
Trust not woman, she’ll beguile you?[264]
Temptation and Explanation. E. W. Wilcox[264]
A Newspaper Parody[264]
The Night before Christmas. C. C. Moore[265]
The Night after Christmas[265]
The Picket Guard. Thad. Oliver[266]
Along the St. Lawrence. New York World[266]
The Lessons of the Birds. G. W. Doane[267]
What is that, Mother? E. Lawson Finerty[267]
You kissed me. Josephine Hunt. 1857[264]
You kicked me. 1881[264]
Woodman, spare that tree. G. P. Morris[271]
The Woodman’s reply. Godfrey Turner[271]
NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC SONGS
OF THE UNITED STATES OFAMERICA.
A List of the Principal Songs [274]
Yankee Doodle. 1755 [274]
The origin of Yankee Doodle. G. P. Morris [275]
“The Mighty Brougham’s come to Town.” Liverpool Election. 1812 [275]
An Appendix to “Yankee Doodle.” 1851 [275]
“Punch” on the Civil War. 1861 [276]
Jonathan to John. James R. Lowell [276]
“Yankee Doodle” from the Southern point of view [277]
A Yankee Soldier’s Song [278]
Cock-a-Doodle. Truth. 1882 [278]
Randy Churchill. American Paper. 1887 [278]
John Brown’s Body[278]
A Radical Song. D. Evans[278]
Three Hundred Thousand more.John S. Gibbons. July 16, 1862[279]
To Abraham Lincoln. Shirley Brooks [279]
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the Boys are marching![279]
A political parody. Truth. 1886 [279]
My Maryland. James R. Randall. 1861[280]
The Karamanian Exile. J. C. Mangan[280]
A Northern States parody of “Maryland” [281]
A Liberal Lyric. England. 1884 [281]
Yankee-Land. J. G. Dalton. 1885[281]
Canada, my Canada. The Brooklyn Eagle[323]
Hail, Columbia. Oliver Wendell Holmes[282]

CONTENTS

VOLUMES I., II., III., and IV. PARODIES.

Each Part may be purchased separately.

Volume I.
Part 1.Alfred Tennyson’sEarly Poems.
Part 2.Alfred Tennyson’sEarly Poems.
Part 3.Alfred Tennyson’sLater Poems.
Part 4.Page 49 to 62.Tennyson’s Poems.
Page 62 to 64.H. W. Longfellow.
Part 5.Page 65.A Parody of William Morris.
Page 65 to 80.H. W. Longfellow.
Part 6.Page 81 to 96.H. W. Longfellow.
Part 7.Page 97 to 105.H. W. Longfellow. Hiawatha.
Page 105 to 112. Rev. C. Wolfe. Not a Drum was heard.
Part 8.Page 113.Not a Drum was heard.
Page 113 to 128.The Song of the Shirt.
Part 9.Page 129 to 135.Thomas Hood.
Page 135 to 140.Bret Harte.
Pages 140 & 141.Not a Drum was heard.
Page 142 to 144.Alfred Tennyson.
Part 10.Page 145 to 160.Alfred Tennyson.
Part 11.Page 161 to 176.Alfred Tennyson.
Part 12.Page 177 to 186.Alfred Tennyson.
Page 187 to 190.Not a Drum was heard.
Page 190 to 192.Song of the Shirt.
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Volume II.
Part 13.Page 1 to 4.Bret Harte.
Pages 4 and 5.Thomas Hood.
Page 6 to 16.H. W. Longfellow.
Part 14.Page 17 to 24.H. W. Longfellow.
Page 25 to 40.Edgar Allan Poe.
Part 15.Page 41 to 64.Edgar Allan Poe.
Part 16.Page 65 to 88.Edgar Allan Poe.
Part 17.Page 89 to 103.Edgar Allan Poe.
Pages 103, 4 & 5.The Art of Parody.
Page 106 to 112.My Mother, by Miss Taylor.
Part 18.Page 113 to 135.My Mother.
Page 136The Vulture, (After “The Raven.”)
Page 136A Welcome to Battenberg.
Part 19.Page 137 to 141.Tennyson’s The Fleet, etc.
Page 141 to 143.My Mother.
Page 144 to 160.Hamlet’s Soliloquy.
Part 20.Page 161 to 184.W. Shakespeare. The Seven Ages of Man, etc.
Part 21.Page 185 to 206.W. Shakespeare. Account of the Burlesques of his Plays.
Page 206 to 208.Dr. Isaac Watts.
Part 22.Page 209 to 217.Dr. Isaac Watts.
Page 217 to 232.John Milton.
Part 23.Page 233John Milton.
Page 233 to 236.Dryden’s Epigram on Milton.
Page 236 to 238.Matthew Arnold.
Page 239 to 244.W. Shakespeare.
Page 244 to 246.Bret Harte.
Page 246 to 255.H. W. Longfellow.
Pages 255 and 256Thomas Hood.
Part 24.Page 257 to 259.Thomas Hood.
Page 260 to 280.Alfred Tennyson.
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Volume III.
Part 25.A Chapter on Parodies, by Isaac D’Israeli.
Page 3 to 16.Oliver Goldsmith.
Part 26.Page 17 to 20.Oliver Goldsmith.
Page 20 to 40.Thomas Campbell.
Part 27.Page 41 to 47.Thomas Campbell.
Page 48 to 64.Robert Burns.
Part 28.Page 65 to 71.Robert Burns.
Page 71 to 88.Sir Walter Scott.
Part 29.Page 89 to 99.Sir Walter Scott.
Page 99 to 105.Scotch Songs.
Page 106 to 109.Robert Burns.
Page 109 to 112.Thomas Campbell.
Part 30.Page 113 to 116.Coronation Lays.
Page 117 to 129.Charles Kingsley.
Page 129 to 136.Mrs. Hemans.
Part 31.Page 137 to 140.Mrs. Hemans.
Page 140 to 160.Robert Southey.
Part 32.Page 161 to 181.Robert Southey.
Page 181 to 184.The Anti-Jacobin.
Part 33.Page 185 to 186.The Anti-Jacobin.
Page 187 to 189.A. C. Swinburne.
Page 189 to 208.Lord Byron.
Part 34.Page 209 to 229.Lord Byron.
Page 230 to 232.Thomas Moore.
Part 35.Page 233 to 256.Thomas Moore.
Part 36.Page 257 to 278.Thomas Moore.
Page 278.Lord Byron.
Pages 279 & 280.Charles Kingsley.
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Volume IV.
Part 37.On Parodies of Popular Songs.
Page 2 to 16. Modern Songs.
Part 38.Songs by Henry Carey, A. Bunn, J. H. Payne, and Robert Herrick.
Part 39.Songs by R. Herrick, T. H. Baily, and Lewis Carroll.
Part 40.Songs by C. and T. Dibdin, T. Campbell, and David Garrick.
Part 41.The Bilious Beadle, The Old English Gentleman, Rule Britannia, and God Save the King.
Part 42.Songs in W. S. Gilbert’s Comic Operas.
Part 43.W. S. Gilbert’s Songs, Tennyson’s Jubilee Ode, Swinburne’s Question, and the Answer.
Part 44.The Vicar of Bray, Old King Cole, Lord Lovel, and Old Simon the Cellarer.
Part 45.Chevy-Chace, Lord Bateman, Songs by R. B. Sheridan, Charles Mackay, and B. W. Proctor (Barry Cornwall).
Part 46.Parodies of various old Songs and Ballads.
Part 47.Parodies of Scotch, Irish, and Welsh Songs.
Part 48.Songs by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and various old English Songs. Tennyson’s Jubilee Ode.

“There is no talent so universally entertaining as that of mimickry, even when it is confined to the lively imitation of the air, manner, and external deportment of ordinary individuals.

It rises in interest, however, and in dignity, when it succeeds in expressing, not merely the visible and external characteristics of its objects, but those also of their taste, their genius and temper. A vulgar mimic repeats a man’s known stories, with an exact imitation of his voice and gestures; but he is an artist of a far higher description, who can make stories or reasonings in his manner, and represent the features and movements of his mind, as well as the accidents of his body. The same distinction applies to the mimickry, if it may be so called, of an author’s style and manner of writing.

It is another matter, however, to be able to borrow the diction and manner of a celebrated writer to express sentiments like his own—to write as he would have written on the subject proposed to his imitator—to think his thoughts in short, as well as to use his words—and to make the revival of his style appear a natural consequence of the strong conception of his peculiar ideas. To do this in all the perfection of which it is capable, requires talents, perhaps, not inferior to those of the original on whom they are employed—together with a faculty of observation, and a dexterity of application, which that original might not always possess; and should not only afford nearly as great pleasure to the reader, as a piece of composition,—but may teach him some lessons, or open up to him some views, which could not have been otherwise disclosed.

The exact imitation of a good thing, it must be admitted, promises fair to be a pretty good thing in itself; but if the resemblance be very striking, it commonly has the additional advantage of letting us more completely into the secret of the original author, and enabling us to understand far more clearly in what the peculiarity of his manner consists, than most of us should ever have done without this assistance. The resemblance, it is obvious, can only be rendered striking by exaggerating a little, and bringing more conspicuously forward, all that is peculiar and characteristic in the model.”

Lord Jeffrey on The Rejected Addresses.

Footnotes:

[1] An Opera, written and composed by Thomas Augustine Arne, M.D. It was acted at Covent Garden Theatre, London, six nights in the month of December, 1764.

[2] Performers in the Opera.

[3] The Round-house.

[4] Earl of Rochester.

[5] An author and bookseller.

[6] The coffee house.

[7] A trinket seller.

[8] The Royal Oak, a public-house near the Hall.

[9] Long Pole Wellesley, Esq., afterwards Lord Mornington, thus mentioned by Lord Byron in Don Juan:—

“Where’s Brummell? Dish’d. Where’s Long Pole Wellesley? Diddled.”

[10] A celebrated boot-maker in Pall Mall, London.

[11] Dyde and Scribe were then well known dealers in ladies finery.

[12] A sort of under tap, in the interior of the Bench, in which porter is sold by the authority of the marshal, to the debtors.

[13] A solitary place of confinement for such as break the rules of the prison.

[14] Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, mistress of the Duke of York.

[15] A well-known bookseller, who wrote some amusing but egotistical memoirs.

[16] Vide Admiral Tyrrel’s monument in Westminster Abbey.

[17] Sir Francis Burdett (father of the present Lady Burdett Coutts) was Radical M.P. for Westminster. Perhaps the greatest event of his life was his committal to the Tower under the Speaker’s warrant for a libellous letter published in Cobbett’s Political Register of March 24, 1810, in which he questioned the power of the House of Commons to imprison delinquents. He at first resisted the execution of the warrant, and being a favourite with the mob, a street contest ensued between the military and the people, in which some lives were lost.

[18] The City Box, refused by the Prince Regent, was proposed by draper Waithman to be given to the Baronet if his cause had succeeded; but alas! it was destined again to go a-begging. Robert Waithman was Lord Mayor of London.

[19] A name given by the Baronet to the British House of Commons.

[20] George Hudson, a draper, and Lord Mayor of York in 1839, by his successful management of various railway schemes amassed a large fortune (which he afterwards lost), and became known as the “Railway King.”

[21] Alluding to The Times critique on Henry Irving as “Macbeth.”

[22] In the original this word is written “Atty.”

[23] Sir Francis Bolton died early in 1887, leaving a very large fortune.

[24] “The fundamental feature on which all opposition to this measure hinges is, that there is on the part of the people of England, an ignorant impatience of taxation, Lord Castlereagh.

[25] Quere, Liar? Some doubts have arisen on the orthography of the last word in this line.

[26] John Wilson Croker. Author and Politician, who invented the term “Conservative” as applied to the Tory party.

[27] Tambour qui se bat sur le rampart des villes frontières, vers le coucher du soleil, pour y rappeller les habitans.

[28] Mr. Walpole, after the death of Mr. Gray, placed the China vase in question (for it was not a tub) on a pedestal at Strawberry-Hill, with a few lines of the Ode for its inscription.

’Twas on this Vase’s lofty side, &c.

[29] Var.—Two beauteous forms.
First edition in Dodsley’s Miscellany.

[30] Glitters, or Glisters, in other Editions.

[31] Lord Castlereagh, herein satirised, was the chief instrument in procuring the legislative union of England and Ireland in 1800, for which he was severely attacked by Lord Byron in Don Juan. He committed suicide in 1822, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

[32] King Henry the Sixth, founder of the College.

[33] Ranelagh was a famous place of public entertainment erected about 1740, at Chelsea, close to the banks of the Thames, on the site of the gardens of a villa which had formerly belonged to Viscount Ranelagh. The great hall, known as the Rotunda, was opened on April 5, 1742, it was 185 feet in diameter. This was designed by Mr. Lacy, formerly one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre. Bonnell Thornton’s Burlesque Ode on St. Cecilias’ Day, set to music by Dr. Burney, was performed at Ranelagh to a crowded audience. The last grand fête held at Ranelagh was the installation ball of the Knights of the Bath, in 1802. The site now forms part of Chelsea Hospital Gardens, between Church Row and the river, to the east of the Hospital, but no trace now remains of Ranelagh. A very good description of the Gardens and Buildings will be found in Thomas Faulkner’s Description of Chelsea. London, 1810.

[34] The name given by the founder to the College.

[35] Helm, nor Hauberk’s twisted mail.

The Hauberk was a texture of steel ringlets, or rings interwoven, forming a coat of mail that sat close to the body, and adapted itself to every motion.

[36] As down the steep of Snowdon’s shaggy side.

Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract which the Welsh themselves call Craigian-eryri: it included all the highlands of Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire, as far as the river Conway.

[37] Stout Glo’ster stood aghast——

Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, son-in-law to King Edward.

[38] To arms! cried Mortimer——

Edmond de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore.

They both were Lords Marchers, whose lands lay on the borders of Wales, and probably accompanied the King in this expedition.

[39] Shrieks of an agonizing King!

Edward the Second, cruelly butchered in Berkley-castle.

[40] She-wolf of France——

Isabel of France, Edward the Second’s adulterous Queen.

[41] Low on his funeral couch he lies.

Death of that king, abandoned by his children, and robbed in his last moments by his courtiers.

[42] Is the sable warrior fled?

Edward the Black Prince, dead some time before his father.

[43] Ye tow’rs of Julius

Henry the Sixth, George Duke of Clarence, Edward the Fifth, Richard Duke of York, &c. believed to be murdered secretly in the Tower of London. The oldest part of that structure is attributed to Julius Cæesar.

[44] Revere his consort’s faith——

Margaret of Anjou, a woman of heroic spirit, who struggled hard to save her husband and her crown.

[45] ——his father’s fame.

Henry the Fifth.

[46] And spare the meek usuper’s holy head.

Henry the Sixth. The line of Lancaster had no right of inheritance to the crown.

[47] ——the rose of snow, &c.

The white and red roses, devices of York and Lancaster.

[48] The bristled boar——

The silver boar was the badge of Richard the Third; whence he was usually known in his own time by the name of the Boar.

[49] Half of thy heart we consecrate.

Eleanor of Castile died a few years after the conquest of Wales. The heroic proof she gave of her affection for her lord is well known. The monuments of his regret and sorrow for the loss of her, are still to be seen at Northampton, Gaddington, Waltham, and other places.

[50] All-hail, ye genuine Kings, Britannia’s issue, hail!

Both Merlin and Talliessin had prophesied, that the Welsh should regain their sovereignty over this island; which seemed to be accomplished in the house of Tudor.

[51] John Philip Kemble, manager of Covent Garden Theatre.

[52] Mrs. Siddons, the famous tragedienne.

[53] Westminster Hall.

[54] Mrs. Siddons.

[55] The name of the street in which the Society was held.

[56] One of the Esquire Bedells who bear the mace before the Vice-Chancellor.

[57] The savage despair of the Member is finely pourtrayed by the trousers. A total indifference to moral guilt or personal danger is argued by his thus appearing before the Vice-Chancellor; that gentleman justly regarding the wearing of trousers as the most atrocious of moral offences, and having lately deservedly excluded a distinguished wrangler who had been guilty of them, from a Fellowship of his College.

[58] Speakers of the Society.

[59] A magnificent though bold figure. The Red Lion (which is the sign of the Inn at which the Union assembled), and which is a remarkably handsome lion of the kind, is described as wagging his tail in testimony of the pleasure he felt at the goings on within.

[60] The Vice-Chancellor elect.

[61] Two of the Esquire Bedells.

[62] Former Vice-Chancellors.

[63] The Chancellor.

[64] Speakers of the Society.

[65] Sir John Fielding, an active police magistrate of that day.

[66] Coe’s father, a blacksmith and alderman of Cambridge.

[67] Professor Richard Owen, formerly superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, whence it was decided to remove the natural history specimens to South Kensington.

[68] Don Quixote.

[69] An over-rated American actress who performs in the Lyceum Theatre, London, during the absence of the regular company. She has a harsh unsympathetic voice, and is seen at her best as a statue, for which role nature appears to have intended her.

[70] A Colonade is that which consists of columns. The British Army consists thereof. Therefore the British Army is a Colonade.—Walker.

[71] The Prisoner was accommodated with a neat “folding bed.”

[72] Dr. E. V. Kenealy was M. P. for Stoke, and edited The Englishman Newspaper.

[73] “Pack” is the Arctic ice. “Shove,” when river-ice begins to move, in America.

[74] The Poet’s residence.

[75] “The White Doe of Rylstone” which had a very slow sale. Jeffrey wrote of it that it was the very worst poem he ever saw in a quarto volume.

[76] Jack and Nancy, as it was afterwards remarked to the Authors, are here made to come into the world at periods not sufficiently remote. The writers were then bachelors. One of them, unfortunately, still continues so, as he has thus recorded in his niece’s album:

“Should I seek Hymen’s tie,

As a poet I die—

Ye Benedicks, mourn my distresses!

For what little fame

Is annexed to my name

Is derived From Rejected Addresses.”

The blunder, notwithstanding, remains unrectified. The reader of poetry is always dissatisfied with emendations: they sound discordantly upon the ear, like a modern song, by Bishop or Braham, introduced in Love in a Village.

[77] This alludes to the young Betty mania.

[78] A fashionable milliner.

[79] For a detailed account of this appointment and its pay, privileges, and duties, see The Poets Laureate of England, by Walter Hamilton. (London, Reeves and Turner.)

[80] Euclid Redivivus.

[81] “The M,” “the C.” The Modern Side, the Classical Side.

[82] Leckhampton Hill, near Cheltenham.

[83] Mr. Henry Irving produced Othello at the Lyceum Theatre on February 14, 1876. At that period the London Figaro was most unjust and ungenerous in its comments on Mr. Irving, decrying his efforts as an actor in every part he undertook.

[84] Without paying the Customs duty imposed on silver plate in the United States.

[85] Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham, then holding very advanced Radical views.

[86] “He of Blackfriars Road,” viz., the late Rev. Rowland Hill, who is said to have preached a sermon congratulating his congregation on the catastrophe at Drury Lane Theatre.

[87] “Padmanaba,” viz., in a [pantomime] called Harlequin in Padmanaba. This elephant, some years afterwards, was exhibited over Exeter ’Change, where it was found necessary to destroy the poor animal by discharges of musketry. When he made his entrance in the pantomime above-mentioned, Johnson, the machinist of the rival house exclaimed, “I should be very sorry if I could not make a better elephant than that!” Johnson was right: we go to the theatre to be pleased with the skill of the imitator, and not to look at the reality.

[88] Hungerford suspension bridge was opened on May 1, 1845, it was removed in 1862 to make way for the Charing Cross railway bridge, and was afterwards erected over the River Avon at Clifton, near Bristol.

[89] It is currently reported that Robert Warren, Esq., is a native of Birmingham.

[90] The Lord Chancellor Eldon, “Old Bags.”

[91] Lord Stewart at a dinner in Ireland proposed as a toast “the health of the Prince Regent, the first cavalry officer in Europe.”

[92] It was generally supposed that the Prince Regent’s whiskers were artificial. But as the Prince was never true to either his word, his oath, his wife, or his mistress, it matters little by what, or by whom, he swore.

[93] Bishop Gray.

[94] Lord Westbury.

[95] Bishop Colenso died after a brief illness, in 1883, leaving behind him the memory of an honest and fearless thinker, and of a true and devoted missionary.

[96] Sir William Harcourt.

[97] Mr. Whitbread, the brewer, who was very active in the rebuilding of Drury Lane Theatre.

[98] This appeared soon after a tremendous fire at Whiteley’s stores, in Westbourne Grove, London.

[99] G. V. Brooke, the tragedian herein referred to, was lost in the ill-fated steamer London which foundered in the Bay of Biscay in January, 1866.

[100] This and subsequent allusions to the Valentino, the Poses Plastiques, Brixton Treadmill, and other familiar objects of our youth, since swept away by the broom of Time, would fix the authorship of this ballad at a date anterior to the present generation. For instance, in stanza xiv., the students are described as singing now obsolete melodies of Ethiopian origin. In the present day the chosen chorus under similar circumstances would have been the “Ratcatcher’s Daughter,” or possibly, “Villikins.” The allusion to Cowell in stanza viii., reads like an interpolation.—Ed. “O.M.”

[101] At a meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers held in Manchester, on November 5, 1875, Mr. Charles Cochrane, of Stourbridge, read a paper entitled “On the Ultimate Capacity of Blast Furnaces” (for making pig iron.) As was appropriate to such a burning question, the discussion was somewhat heated, although, as need hardly be said, the parodist has availed himself largely of poetical lie-sense in his account of the proceedings. Mr. C. Cochrane asserted that he had effected a great saving in fuel by the construction of his large furnace, in conjunction with Cowper’s patent stoves for heating the blast. The most eminent engineers of the day spoke in the discussion, Messrs. I. L. Bell (now Sir I. L. Bell, M. P.), E. A. Cowper, Sir. Charles W. Siemens, E. H. Carbutt, Sir Frederick Bramwell, and others.

[102] Mr. W. P. Marshall, Secretary of the Institution.

[103] Lord Hartington, then Secretary of State for War, was responsible for the measures taken for the relief of General Gordon.

[104] Sir John Lawrence, Governor-General of India, 1863 to 1868.

[105] Jovis. Bacchi. Veneris.

[106] Sir James Mc. G. Hogg, of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

[107] There is something’ like this in Macaulay’s Lays:—

“And, like a dam, the mighty wreck,” &c.

[108] Of the Whartonites.

[109] Sic appellata, principio “lucus a non,” quod nostri reges rarissime viuunt illic.

[110] Templum Sancti Pauli quod est unus leonum in Londino.

[111] Ut “Ite id, Cantabrigia” aut “Strenue! Fusci Coerulei” aut “Bene remigatum.”

[112]

So clomb this first grand thief——

Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life

Sat like a cormorant.

Paradise Lost, iv.

[113] Then the residence of George, Prince Regent, his present address is rather doubtful.

[114] i.e. Paternoster Row. A Publisher. “Now Barabbas was a—publisher.”

[115] The Earl of Liverpool, who was premier from 1812 to 1820.

[116] Temple Bar was removed from Fleet Street, to make way for the costly, and still more unsightly obstruction known as the Griffin.

[117] What is a caxen?—Ed. P.

[118] Thomas Dibdin, song-writer and dramatist, was born in 1771. He was apprenticed to Sir William Rawlins, Knt., who then kept a broker’s shop in Moorfields.

[119] The manager of a strolling company.

[120] A Trip to the Nile was Mr. Dibdin’s first production on Covent Garden boards.

[121] Family Quarrels, in which the Jews were attacked. Thomas Dibdin died on September 16, 1841.

[122] The “Rule of Three,” useful for calculating which political party to adopt, in order quickly to obtain a profitable place.

[123] Had Grouchy arrived at the appointed time Napoleon would probably not have been beaten at Waterloo.

[124] In a foot note the author of The New Timon wrote “The whole of this Poem (! ! !) is worth reading, in order to see to what depths of silliness the human intellect can descend:—

“O Darling room, my heart’s delight

Dear room, the apple of my sight,

With thy two couches soft and white,

There is no room so exquisite,

No little room so warm and bright,

Wherein to read, wherein to write.”

[There were two other verses, but in later editions of his works Tennyson has omitted the entire poem. Messrs. Harper and Brothers, of New York, have however recently published an edition containing all Tennyson’s early and suppressed poems. This is invaluable as a book of reference for literary men. Ed. P.]

[125] Be pleased to give this word the proper Cockney pronunciation—Mamar! None others are genuine.

[126] Corpses.

[127] To shoot.

[128] Uncle Sam. The people of the United States use this term of themselves, in the same way that Britons speak of “John Bull.”

[129] Renegaders.—People in the Northern States who sympathised with the slaveholders.

[130] Kinney and Walker were two leaders of the “fillibusters” who went “piratifying to extend the area of freedom” in Central America in 1855-60. Walker was shot, as he richly deserved, by the Honduras folks in 1860. He lived in San Francisco, 1850-55, and the southerners there (they are quite numerous and are called the “chivs,” from chivalry), are still noticeably inclined to think his views were not far wrong.

[131] Nothing shorter. A circumlocutive intended to strengthen an assertion by means of affirming something through the exclusion of everything else. A similar form of speech is to say, when asked if you will do something, to say “I won’t do anything else.”

[132] To fix one’s flint: i.e., to do for him; to settle his hash; to cook his goose; to wind up his worsted.

[133] A gum game: i.e., a swindle, fraudulent transaction, or imposition.

[134] Squash, a vegetable resembling a small pumpkin, tasting like vegetable marrow.

[135] Sass. A New England term for vegetables for the table, known collectively as garden sass (or sarse). “Long sass” is applied to long vegetables, such as carrots and radishes, and “short sass” to round ones.

[136] Lord Randolph Churchill.

[137] Mr. Sullivan’s playful name for his cell in Tullamore gaol, where he was treated with a little less severity than some of his fellow political prisoners.

[138] Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, a small and very exclusive literary society founded in 1878 by Mr. Bernard Quaritch. The Brethren (as they style themselves) are united once a month to form a perfect sette for the purposes of Conviviality, and Mutual Admiration. The Brethren are, for the most part, men of note in Art, Literature, or the Drama. Each “Odd Volume” has his special title and office in the “Sette,” many of the observances at the meetings are quaint and peculiar, whilst the dainty little Opuscula containing reports of their proceedings are eagerly sought after by collectors of literary curiosities.

[139] Proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, London.

[140] “Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis.” Dr. Goldsmith quoting Ovid.

[141] The Common Council of the City of London.

[142] R. B. Sheridan’s attachment to the bottle was notorious.

[143] The Middle Temple Hall Tower, a modern antique.

[144] Mr. Hiram Henton, Bandmaster of the London Rifle Brigade. The L.R.B. Band was selected for several years, for Camp duty, by the National Rifle Association.

Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below.

Notes associated with stanza numbers in Gray's Elegy follow the poem. All other footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, unprinted or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed.

There are multiple anchors to Footnotes [2], [58], [61],] [62], [63], [64]. There were no anchors to Footnote [83] or [116]; anchors were added where they may belong.

Unprinted diacriticals were added to words in languages other than English. Quotation marks were adjusted to matched sets. Extraneous punctuation was deleted.

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