History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2), by CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVI. 1 CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XI. Chapter lxxxviii Chapter lxxxviii CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XIX. 2 CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIII. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2), by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Author: Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange Release Date: July 25, 2006 [eBook #18906] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR, VOL. 2 (OF 2)*** E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Transcriber's note: The letter "e" with a macron is rendered [=e] in this text. The astute reader will notice there is no Chapter XV in the Table of Contents or in the text. This was a printer's error in the original book. The chapters were incorrectly numbered, but no chapter was missing. This e-book has been transcribed to match the original. HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour. by THE REV. A. G. L'ESTRANGE, Author of "The Life of the Rev. William Harness," "From the Thames to the Tamar," Etc. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2), by 3 In Two Volumes. Vol. II. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough Street. 1878. All rights reserved. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2), by 4 CHAPTER I. Burlesque Parody The "Splendid Shilling" Prior Pope Ambrose Philips Parodies of Gray's Elegy Gay 1 CHAPTER I. 5 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 II. 6 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 III. 7 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 IV. 8 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 V. 9 CHAPTER VI. Sterne His Versatility Dramatic Form Indelicacy Sentiment and Geniality Letters to his Wife Extracts from his Sermons Dr. Johnson 99 CHAPTER VI. 10 [...]... Variation Constancy Influence of Temperament Of Observation Bulls Want of Knowledge Effects of Emotion Unity of the Sense of the Ludicrous 24 1 22 CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XX Definition Difficulties of forming one of Humour 27 6 23 CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI Charm of Mystery Complication Poetry and Humour compared Exaggeration 28 5 24 CHAPTER XXII 25 CHAPTER XXII Imperfection An Impression of Falsity implied Two Views... Advantages of Ugliness Button Conspiracy Advocacy of Dirt The "Genteel Pigeons" 20 7 19 CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII Thackeray His Acerbity The Baronet The Parson Medical Ladies Glorvina "A Serious Paradise" 21 6 20 CHAPTER XVIII 21 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 22 6 CHAPTER... Cambridge He became a fellow of St John's, and Lord Dorset afterwards introduced him at Court, and obtained for him the post of secretary of Legation at the Hague, in which office he gave so much satisfaction to William III that he made him one of his gentlemen of the bed chamber He became afterwards Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Ambassador in France, and Under Secretary of State During his two... fantastic outside of a man, a well-digested bundle of costly vanities, and you may call him a volume of methodical errata bound in a gilt cover He's a curiously wrought cabinet full of shells and other trumpery, which were much better quite empty than so emptily filled He's a man's skin full of profaneness, a paradise full of weeds, a heaven full of devils, a Satan's bedchamber hung with arras of God's own... the noiseless tenor of their way "E'en now their books, from cobwebs to protect, Inclosed by door of glass, in Doric style, On polished pillars raised with bronzes decked, Demand the passing tribute of a smile." Another parody of this famous Elegy published about the same date, has a less pleasant subject the dangers and vices of the metropolis It speaks of the activities of thieves "Oft to their subtlety... cheat unseen, And dies unhanged for want of proper care." Gay dedicated his first poem to Pope, then himself a young man, and this led to an intimacy between them In 17 12 he held the office of Secretary to Ann, Duchess of Monmouth; and in 1714 he accompanied the Earl of Clarendon to Hanover In this year he wrote a good travesty of Ambrose Philips' pastoral poetry, of which the following is a specimen-Lobbin... Gilpin" "The Task" Goldsmith "The Citizen of the World" Humorous Poems Quacks Baron Münchausen 127 12 CHAPTER IX 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 13 CHAPTER X CHAPTER X Wolcott Writes against the Academicians Tales of a Hoy "New Old Ballads" "The Sorrows of Sunday" Ode to a Pretty Barmaid Sheridan... were beginning to protest against the gothic barbarity of rhyme, and Surrey had given in his translation of the first and fourth books of Virgil a specimen of the freer versification Meres says that "Piers Plowman was the first that observed the true quality of our verse without the curiositie of rime" but he was not followed The new character of the "Splendid Shilling" caused it to bring more fame... 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 CHAPTER XXIII Nomenclature Three Classes of Words Distinction between Wit and Humour Wit sometimes dangerous, generally innocuous 339 HISTORY OF. .. domestic cares, Ne'er rouse these sleepers from their drowsy bed "No chattering females crowd the social fire, No dread have they of discord and of strife, Unknown the names of husband and of sire, Unfelt the plagues of matrimonial life "Oft have they basked along the sunny walls, Oft have the benches bowed beneath their weight, How jocund are their looks when dinner calls! 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