English Satires

English Satires

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Title: English Satires
Author: Various
Editor: Oliphant Smeaton
Release Date: June 24, 2005 [eBook #16126]
Language: English
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ENGLISH SATIRES
With an Introduction by
OLIPHANT SMEATON
London The Gresham Publishing Company 34 Southampton Street Strand

TO THE MEMORY OF
ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART D.D., LL.D., F.S.A.
WITH A GRATEFUL SENSE OF ALL IT OWES TO HIS TEACHING THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

PREFACE.
In the compilation of this volume my aim has been to furnish a work that would be representative in character rather than exhaustive. The restrictions of space imposed by the limits of such a series as this have necessitated the omission of many pieces that readers might expect to see included. As far as possible, however, the most typical satires of the successive eras have been selected, so as to throw into relief the special literary characteristics of each, and to manifest the trend of satiric development during the centuries elapsing between Langland and Lowell.
Acknowledgment is due, and is gratefully rendered, to Mrs. C.S. Calverley for permission to print the verses which close this book; and to Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for permission to print A.H. Clough's "Spectator ab Extra".
To Professor C.H. Herford my warmest thanks are due for his careful revision of the Introduction, and for many valuable hints which have been adopted in the course of the work; also to Mr. W. Keith Leask, M.A.(Oxon.), and the librarians of the Edinburgh University and Advocates' Libraries.
OLIPHANT SMEATON.

CONTENTS.
Page INTRODUCTION xiii
WILLIAM LANGLAND I. Pilgrimage in Search of Do-well 1
GEOFFREY CHAUCER II. III. The Monk and the Friar 6
JOHN LYDGATE IV. The London Lackpenny 10
WILLIAM DUNBAR V. The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins 14
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY VI. Satire on the Syde Taillis--Ane Supplicatioun directit to the Kingis Grace--1538 19
BISHOP JOSEPH HALL VII. On Simony 22 VIII. The Domestic Tutor's Position 23 IX. The Impecunious Fop 24
GEORGE CHAPMAN X. An Invective written by Mr. George Chapman against Mr. Ben Jonson 26
JOHN DONNE XI. The Character of the Bore 29
BEN JONSON XII. The New Cry 34 XIII. On Don Surly 35
SAMUEL BUTLER XIV. The Character of Hudibras 36 XV. The Character of a Small Poet 43
ANDREW MARVELL XVI. Nostradamus's Prophecy 45
JOHN CLEIVELAND XVII. The Scots Apostasie 47
JOHN DRYDEN XVIII. Satire on the Dutch 49 XIX. MacFlecknoe 50 XX. Epistle to the Whigs 57
DANIEL DEFOE XXI. Introduction to the True born Englishman 63
THE EARL OF DORSET XXII. Satire on a Conceited Playwright 65
JOHN ARBUTHNOT XXIII. Preface to John Bull and his Law suit 66 XXIV. The History of John Bull 70 XXV. Epitaph upon Colonel Chartres 76
JONATHAN SWIFT XXVI. Mrs Frances Harris' Petition 77 XXVII. Elegy on Partridge 81 XXVIII. A Meditation upon a Broom stick 85 XXIX. The Relations of Booksellers and Authors 86 XXX. The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal Highness Prince Posterity 91
SIR RICHARD STEELE XXXI. The Commonwealth of Lunatics 97
JOSEPH ADDISON XXXII. Sir Roger de Coverley's Sunday 101
EDWARD YOUNG XXXIII. To the Right Hon. Mr. Dodington 105
JOHN GAY XXXIV. The Quidnunckis 112
ALEXANDER POPE XXXV. The Dunciad--The Description of Dulness 114 XXXVI. Sandys' Ghost; or, a proper new ballad of the New Ovid's Metamorphoses, as it was intended to be translated by persons of quality 120 XXXVII. Satire on the Whig Poets 122 XXXVIII. Epilogue to the Satires 131
SAMUEL JOHNSON XXXIX. The Vanity of Human Wishes 136 XL. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield 147
OLIVER GOLDSMITH XLI. The Retaliation 149 XLII. The Logicians Refuted 154 XLIII. Beau Tibbs, his Character and Family 156
CHARLES CHURCHILL XLIV. The Journey 160
JUNIUS XLV. To the King 164
ROBERT BURNS XLVI. Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous 180 XLVII. Holy Willie's Prayer 182
CHARLES LAMB XLVIII. A Farewell to Tobacco 186
THOMAS MOORE XLIX. Lines on Leigh Hunt 191
GEORGE CANNING L. Epistle from Lord Boringdon to Lord Granville 192 LI. Reformation of the Knave of Hearts 194
POETRY OF THE ANTI JACOBIN LII. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder 203 LIII. Song by Rogero the Captive 205
COLERIDGE AND SOUTHEY LIV. The Devil's Walk 206
SYDNEY SMITH LV. The Letters of Peter Plymley--on "No Popery" 208
JAMES SMITH LVI. The Poet of Fashion 216
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR LVII. Bossuet and the Duchess of Fontanges 218
LORD BYRON LVIII. The Vision of Judgment 226 LIX. The Waltz 236 LX. "The Dedication" in Don Juan 243
THOMAS HOOD LXI. Cockle v. Cackle 249
LORD MACAULAY LXII. The Country Clergyman's Trip to Cambridge 253
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED LXIII. The Red Fisherman; or, The Devil's Decoy 257 LXIV.