The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

The pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Boucicault—

Style of the Bishop of Sodor and Man—

The dash of a D'Orsay, divested of quackery—

Narrative powers of Dickens and Thackeray—

Victor Emmanuel—peak-haunting Peveril—

Thomas Aquinas, and Doctor Sacheverell—

Tupper and Tennyson—Daniel Defoe—

Anthony Trollope and Mister Guizot!

Take of these elements all that is fusible,