| Description |
64 p. ; 13 cm. |
| Series |
Little blue book; no. 961
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| Note |
Advertised 1 May 1926, Haldeman-Julius Weekly, p. 4. |
| Contents |
Of wit. The chronicle. An holy sister / Abraham Cowley -- The invitation. A ternarie of littles, upon a pipkin of jellie sent to a lady / Robert Herrick -- The remonstrance. The constant lover / Sir John Suckling -- To a bad poet / Samuel Butler -- The remedy worse than the disease. Nell and John. An epitaph / Matthew Prior -- Mary the cook-maid's letter to Dr. Sheridan / Jonathan Swift -- To a lady, on her passion for old china / John Gay -- To Mr. John Moore / Alexander Pope -- To Sir Robert Walpole / Henry Fielding -- Ode on the death of a favourite cat drowned in a tub of goldfishes / Thomas Gray -- The vicar of Bray / Anon. -- Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize. The gift. Elegy on the death of a mad dog. The haunch of venison / Oliver Goldsmith -- Report of an adjudged case . The diverting history of John Gilpin / William Cowper -- The apple-dumplings and a king. The razor-seller. The rival tradesmen. King Canute and his nobles. The pilgrims and the peas. Address to the reviewers / John Wolcot ("Peter Pindar") -- The contrast / Charles Morris. |
| Subject |
Humorous poetry, English.
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| Added Author |
Suckling, John, Sir, 1609-1642.
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Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
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Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
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Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674.
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Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721.
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
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Gay, John, 1685-1732.
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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
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Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
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Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
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Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
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Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
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Morris, Charles, 1745-1838.
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