Chapter VI: Part 6

Serenade, microscopic, 148

Serenade, mycological, 152

Sermon, a Temperance, 145

"Serve-um-Right," 99

Sheridan, Dr., 111;
lines by, 172, 173

Shipwreck, the, 214

Shootover Papers, the, 35

Skelton, poet-laureate, 62, 174

Slidell and Mason, 92

Smith, Dr. Charles, epitaph by, 149

Smith, James and Horace, 15

Smith, Sydney, 111

Soliloquy in Hamlet, parodies on, 46, 47

Solo, the, 241

Song from Garrick Collection, 249

Southey's Kehama, parody on, 20

Spelling Reform, 141

Splendid Shilling, the, 11

Sun-dial, lines on a, 237

Surnames, 136

Swift, Dean, 111

Tale of Drury Lane, a, 22

Taylor, Bayard, lines by, 36

Teetotum, the, 108

Temperance Sermon, a, 145

Tennyson, parodies on, 39, 40

That Thirty-four! 52

Theatre, the, 16

Thirty-Five, 171

Thompson, George, anagram on, 195

To a Friend at Parting, 100

To a Lady with a Watch, 236

Toast--a Sott, 195

Topside-Galow, 123

Treatise on Wine, a, 73

Truth, chain verse on, 57

"Truth," parody from, 51

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, new versions of, 125, 131

Unfortunate Druggist, lament of an, 157

Valentine, a, 92

Very Felis-itous, 93

Victor Hugo, lines by, 112

Viner, Sir Robert, 193

Visitors' Books, lines from, 109

Watch-case verses, 232

"We met," &c., 29

Whalley, Peter, anagram on, 194

Wig and the Hat, the, 95, 183

Wilson, John, 193

Wine, a Treatise on, 73

Wordsworth, parody on, 32

Yacht Alphabet, a, 213

"You are old, Father William," 43

Yriarte, Tomaso de, 177

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Two well-known alehouses in Oxford, about 1700.

[2] From the "Carols of Cockayne."

[3] "'What do you mean by the reference to Greeley?'

"'I thought everybody had heard that Greeley's only autograph of Poe was a signature to a promissory note for fifty dollars. He offers to sell it for half the money.'"--_Diversions of the Echo Club._

[4] Macmillan & Co., London.

[5] See "Alice in Wonderland."

[6] Reference may also be made here to a recent work, "The Heptalogia; or the Seven against Sense," a book wholly devoted to parody, the merits of which could not be shown by extracts, but requires to be read at length to be properly estimated.

[7] "Ladles"--_i.e._, very spooney.

[8] Maginn died at Walton-on-Thames, 21st August 1842. He was one of the gayest, brightest, and wittiest of those reckless litterateurs who half a century ago worshipped with equal devotion at the shrines of Apollo and Bacchus.

[9] Chatto and Windus, London.

[10] Macmillan & Co., London.

[11] London: Chatto & Windus.

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Transcriber's Notes:

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The original text contains a few letters with diacritical marks that are not represented in this text version.

The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.

The original text includes various symbols that are represented as [Symbol] in this text version.

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