IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1878.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Burlesque--Parody--The "Splendid Shilling"--Prior--Pope--Ambrose | |
| Philips--Parodies of Gray's Elegy--Gay | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Defoe--Irony--Ode to the Pillory--The "Comical Pilgrim"--The | |
| "Scandalous Club"--Humorous Periodicals--Heraclitus | |
| Ridens--The London Spy--The British Apollo | [22] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Swift--"Tale of a Tub"--Essays--Gulliver's Travels--Variety | |
| of Swift's Humour--Riddles--Stella's Wit--Directions | |
| for Servants--Arbuthnot | [44] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Steele--The Funeral--The Tatler--Contributions of Swift--Of | |
| Addison--Expansive Dresses--"Bodily Wit"--Rustic | |
| Obtuseness--Crosses in Love--Snuff-taking | [62] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Spectator--The Rebus--Injurious Wit--The Everlasting | |
| Club--The Lovers' Club--Castles in the Air--The | |
| Guardian--Contributions by Pope--"The Agreeable | |
| Companion"--The Wonderful Magazine--Joe Miller--Pivot | |
| Humour | [77] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Sterne--His Versatility--Dramatic Form--Indelicacy--Sentiment | |
| and Geniality--Letters to his Wife--Extracts | |
| from his Sermons--Dr. Johnson | [99] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Dodsley--"A Muse in Livery"--"The Devil's a Dunce"--"The | |
| Toy Shop"--Fielding--Smollett | [113] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Cowper--Lady Austen's Influence--"John Gilpin"--"The | |
| Task"--Goldsmith--"The Citizen of the World"--Humorous | |
| Poems--Quacks--Baron Münchausen | [127] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The Anti-Jacobin--Its Objects and Violence--"The | |
| Friends of Freedom"--Imitation of Latin Lyrics--The | |
| "Knife Grinder"--The "Progress of Man" | [141] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Wolcott--Writes against the Academicians--Tales of a | |
| Hoy--"New Old Ballads"--"The Sorrows of Sunday"--Ode | |
| to a Pretty Barmaid--Sheridan--Comic Situations--"The | |
| Duenna"--Wits | [150] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Southey--Drolls of Bartholomew Fair--The "Doves"--Typographical | |
| Devices--Puns--Poems of Abel Shufflebottom | [164] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Lamb--His Farewell to Tobacco--Pink Hose--On the | |
| Melancholy of Tailors--Roast Pig | [175] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Byron--Vision of Judgment--Lines to Hodgson--Beppo--Humorous | |
| Rhyming--Profanity of the Age | [184] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Theodore Hook--Improvisatore Talent--Poetry--Sydney | |
| Smith--The "Dun Cow"--Thomas Hood--Gin--Tylney | |
| Hall--John Trot--Barham's Legends | [196] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Douglas Jerrold--Liberal Politics--Advantages of Ugliness--Button | |
| Conspiracy--Advocacy of Dirt--The "Genteel | |
| Pigeons" | [207] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Thackeray--His Acerbity--The Baronet--The Parson--Medical | |
| Ladies--Glorvina--"A Serious Paradise" | [216] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| Dickens--Sympathy with the Poor--Vulgarity--Geniality--Mrs. | |
| Gamp--Mixture of Pathos and Humour--Lever | |
| and Dickens compared--Dickens' power of Description--General | |
| Remarks | [226] |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| Variation--Constancy--Influence of Temperament--Of | |
| Observation--Bulls--Want of Knowledge--Effects | |
| of Emotion--Unity of the Sense of the Ludicrous | [241] |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| Definition--Difficulties of forming one of Humour | [276] |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| Charm of Mystery--Complication--Poetry and Humour | |
| compared--Exaggeration | [285] |
| CHAPTER XXII. | |
| Imperfection--An Impression of Falsity implied--Two | |
| Views taken by Philosophers--Firstly that of Voltaire, | |
| Jean Paul, Brown, the German Idealists, Léon Dumont, | |
| Secondly that of Descartes, Marmontel and Dugald | |
| Stewart--Whately on Jests--Nature of Puns--Effect of | |
| Custom and Habit--Accessory Emotion--Disappointment | |
| and Loss--Practical Jokes | [307] |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| Nomenclature--Three Classes of Words--Distinction between | |
| Wit and Humour--Wit sometimes dangerous, | |
| generally innocuous | [339] |