C. C. Bombaugh (1828–1906)

Indeholder "Introduction - by Martin Gardner", "Alphabetical Whims", " The Freaks and Follies of Literature", " Account of certain Singular Books", " What are Pangrammata?", " The Banished Letters", " Eve's Lenged", " Alphabetical Advertisement", " The Three Initials", " A Jacobite Toast", " 'The Beginning of Eternity'", " The Poor Letter H", " The Letters of the World", " Traps for the Cockneys", " Ingenious Verses on the Vowels", " Alliterative Verses", " 'A Bevy of Belles'", " Antithetical Sermon", " Acrostics", " Double, Triple, and Reversed Acrostics", " Beautiful and Singular Instances", " The Poets in Verse", " On Benedict Arnold", " Curious Pasquinade", " Monastic Verses", " The Figure of the Fish", " Acrostic on Napoleon", " Madame Rachael", " Masonic Memento", " 'Hempe'", " 'Brevity of Human Life'", " Acrostic Valentine", " Anagrams", " German, Latin, and English Instances", " Chronograms", "Palindromes", " Reading in every Style", " What is a Palindrome ?", " What St. Martin said to the Devil", " The Lawyer's Motto", " What Adam said to Eve", " The Poor Young Man in Love", " What Dean Swift wrote to Dr. Sheridan", " 'The Witch's Prayer'", " The Device of a Lady", " Huguenot and Romanist; Double Dealing", "Equivoque", " A Very Deceitful Epistle", " A Wicked Love Letter", " What a Young Wife wrote to her Friend", " The Jesuit's Creed", " Revolutionary Verses", " Double Dealings", " A Fatal Name", " The Triple Platform", " A Bishop's Evasion", " The 'Toast' given by a Smart Young Man", " 'The Handwriting on the Wall'", " French Actresses", " How Mdlle. Mars told her Age", " A Lenient Judge", " What Mdlle. Cico whispered to 'the Bench'", "The Cento", " 'A Cloak of Patches'", " How Centos are made", " Mosaic Poetry", " The Poets in a Mixed State", " New Version of Old Lines", " Cento on Life", " A Cento from thirty-eight Authors", " Cento from Pope", " Biblical Sentiments", " The Return of Israel", " Religious Centos", "Macaronic Verse", " 'A Treatise on Wine'", " Monkish Opinions", " Which Tree is Best?", " A Lover with Nine Tongues", " Horace in a New Dress", " What was Written on a Fly-Leaf", " 'The Cat and the Rats'", " An Advertisement in Five Languages", " Parting Address to a Friend", " 'Oh, the Rhine!'", " The Death of the Sea Serpent", "Chain Verse", " Lasphrise's Novelties", " Singular Ode to Death", " On 'The Truth'", " 'Long I looked into the Sky'", " A Ringing Song", " A Gem of Three Centuries Old", "Routs Rimes", " The Skeletons of Poetry", " How the Poet Dulot lost all his Ideas", " The Flight of three hundred Sonnets", " The 'Nettle' Rhymes", " How a Young Lady teased her Beau", " Assisting a Poet", " Miss Lydia's Acrostic", " Alfred De Musset's Lines", " What the Due de Malakof wrote", " Reversed Rhymes", " How to make 'Rhopalic' verses!", " What they are", "Emblematic Poetry", " Poetry in Visible Shape", " The Bow and Arrow of Love", " The Deceitful Glass", " Prudent Advice", " A Very Singular Dirge", " Poetry among the Monks", " Sacred Symbols", " A Hymn in Cruciform Shape", " Ancient Devices", " Verses within the Cross", " Cypher", " 'U O a O, but I O U'", " Perplexing Printer's Puzzle", " An Oxford Joke", " The Puzzle of 'The Precepts Ten'", " A Mysterious Letter to Miss K. T. J.", "Monosyllables", " The Power of Little Words", " How Pope Ridiculed them", " The "Universal Prayer"", " Example of Dr. Watts", " Wesley's Hymns", " Writings of Shakespeare and Milton", " 'Address to the Daffodils'", " Geo. Herbert's Poems", " Testimony of Keble, Young, Landor, and Fletcher", " Examples from Bailey's 'Festus'", " The Short Words of Scripture", " Big and Little Words Compared", "The Bible", " Who wrote the Scriptures", " Why", " And When", " Accuracy of the Bible", " The Testimony of Modem Discoveries", " Scope and Depth of Scripture Teaching", " What Learned Men have written of the Bible", " Testimony of Rousseau, Wilberforce, Bolingbroke, Sir Wm. Jones, Webster, John Quincy Adams, Addison, Byron, &c.", " Who Translated the Bible", " Wicklif's Version", " Tyndale's Translation", " Matthew's Bible", " Cranmer's Edition", " The Geneva Bible", " The Breeches Bible", " The Bishop's Bible", " Parker's Bible", " The Douay Bible", " King James's Bible", " The Number of Books, Chapters, Verses, Words, and Letters in the Old and New Testaments", " The Bible Dissected", " An Extraordinary Calculation", " Distinctions between the Gospels", " The Lost Books", " What the word 'Selah' means", " The Poetry of the Bible", " Shakespeare's Knowledge of Scripture", " The 'True Gentleman' of the Bible", " Misquotations from Scripture", " A Scriptural 'Bull'", " Wit and Humor in the Bible", " Sortes Sacræ", " Casting Lots with the Bible", "The Name of God", " How God is known", " His Name in all the tongues of Earth", " Ancient Saxon Ideas of Deity", " 'Elohim' and 'Jehovah'", " The "Lord" of the Ancient Jews", " 'God in Shakespeare'", " The Fatherhood of God", " The Parsee, Jew, and Christian", "I.H.S.", " The Name of Jesus", " What does I. H. S. Mean?", " De Nomine Jesu", " What St. Bernardine did", " 'The Flower of Jesse'", " Story of the Infant Jesus", " Ancient Legends of Christ", " Persian Story ; The Dead Dog", " Description of Christ's Person", " The Death Warrant of Christ", " The Sign of the Cross in Ancient America", "The Lord's Prayer", " Thy and Us", " The 'Spirit' of the Lord's Prayer", " Gothic Version of the Fourth Century", " Metrical Versions", " Set to Music", " The Prayer Illustrated", " Acrostical Paraphrase", " What the Bible Commentators Said", " The Prayer Echoed", " A Singular Acrostic", "Ecclesiasticæ", " Anecdotes of Clergy", " Excessive Civility", " A Very Polite Preacher", " Dean Swiff's short Sermon", " 'Down with the Dust'", " An Abbreviated Sermon", " Dr. Dodd's Sermon on Malt", " Bombastic Style of Bascom", " The Preachers of Cromwell's time", " When a man ought to Cough!", " Origin of Texts", " How the Ancient Prophets Preached", " Clerical Blunders", " Proving an Alibi", " Whitefield and the Sailors", " Protestant Excommunication", " The Tender", " Mercies of John Knox", "Puritan Peculiarities", " The Puritan Maiden 'Tribby'", " A Jury-List of 1658", " An Extraordinary List of Names", " Singular Similes", " Early Punishments in Massachusetts", " Virginia Penalties in the Olden Time", " Primitive Fines for Curious Crimes", " Staying away from Church", " The 'Blue Laws' of Connecticut", " Hard Punishments for Little Faults", "Paranomasia", " The Art of Pun-making", " What is Wit?", " Puns Among the Hebrews", " A Pungent Chapter", " Punning Examples", " The Short Road to Wealth", " A 'Man of Greece'", " Witty Impromptus of Sydney Smith", " Startling toast of Harry Erskine", " 'Top and Bottom'", " The Imp of Darkness and the Imp o' Light", " A Printer's Epitaph", " The 'whacks' and the 'stick'", " 'Wo-man' and 'Whim-men'", " Faithless Sally Brown", " Whiskers versus Razors", " Pleasure and Payne", " Plaint of the old Pauper", " To my Nose", " Bad 'accountants' but excellent 'book-keepers'", " The Vegetable Girl", " On an Old Horse", " Grand Scheme of Education", " 'The Perilous Practice of Punning'", " 'Tu Portu Salus'", " On a Youth who was killed by Fruit", " The Appeal of Widow-Hood", " Swiff s Latin Puns", " Puns in Macbeth", " Classical Puns and Mottoes", " Mottoes of the English Peerage", " Jeus-de-Mots", " How Schott Willing", " A Catalectic Monody", " Bees of the Bible", " Franklin's 'Re's'", " Funny 'Miss-Nomers'", " Crooked Coincidences", " A Court Fool's Pun", "English Words and Forms of Expression", " Dictionary English", " Number of words in the English Language", " Language of the Bible", " Sources of the Language", " Helping a Foreigner", " Difficulties of the Language", " Disraelian English", " Why use 'Ye'?", " Its, His, and Her", " How often 'That' may be used", " How many sounds are given to 'ough'", " A Literary Squabble", " Concerning certain Words", " Excise, Pontiff, Rough", " Dr. Johnson in Trouble", " Americanisms", " 'No Love Lost'", " The Forlorn Hope", " Quiz", " Tennyson's English", " Eccentric Etymologies", " Words which have changed their Meaning", " Strange Derivations", " Influence of Names", " Big Words and Long Names", "Tall Writing", " The Domicile erected by John", " New Version of an Old Story", " Curiosities of Advertising", " Mr. Connors and his big Words", " Curiosities of the Post Office", " Singular Play Bill", " Andrew Borde, his Book", " The Mad Poet", " Foote's Funny Farrago", " Burlesque of Dr. Johnson", " Newspaper Eulogy", " 'Clear as Mud'", " An Indignant Letter", " A Chemical Valentine", " The Surgeon to his Lady-love", " The Lawyers Ode to Spring", " Proverbs for Precocious Pupils", "Metric Verse", " Unconscious Poetizing", " Cowper's Rhyming Letter to Newton", " Poetic Prose in Irving's Knickerbocker", " Example from Disraeli's 'Alray'", " Unintentional Rhythm in Charles Dickens' works", " Old Curiosity Shop and Nicholas Nickleby", " American Notes", " Versification in Scripture", " Rhymes from Celebrated Prosers", " Curious Instance of Abraham Lincoln", " Opinion of Dr. Johnson", " Examples from Kemble and Siddons", "The Humors of Versification", " The Story of the Lovers", " Mingled Moods and Tenses", " The Stammering Wife", " A Song with Variations", " 'While She Rocks the Cradle'", " A Serio-Comic Elegy", " Reminiscence of Troy", " Concerning Vegetarianism", " W. C. Bryant as a Humorist", " Address 'To a Mosquito'", " The 'Poet' of the 'Atlantic'", " Bryants Travesty", " A Rare Pipe", " The Human Ear", " A Lesson in Acoustics", " Amusing Burlesque of Tennyson", " Sir Tray ; an Arthurian Idyl", " All About the 'Ologies'", " The Variation Humbug", " Buggins and the Busy Bee", " Comical Singing in Church", " The Curse of O'Kelly", "Hiberniana", " Irish Bulls and Blunders", " Miss Edgeworth on the 'Bull'", " Comical Letter of an Irish 'M. P.'", " Bulls in Mississippi", " American Bulls", " The New Jail", " A Frenchman's Blunder", " The 'Puir Silly Body' who wrote a Book", " The 'bulls' of Classical Writers", " Bulls from every Quarter and of all kinds", "Blunders", " Slips of the Press", " The Bishop Accused of Swearing", " The Damp Old Church", " From a French Newspaper", " The Pig-killing Machine and the Doctor", " Slips of the Telegraph", " Simmons and the Cranberries", " Finishing his Education", " The Poets in a Quandary", " Blunders of Translators", " Rather Gigantic Grasshoppers", " 'Love's last Shift'", " Amusing Blunder of Voltaire", " 'A Fortune Cutting Meat'", " A New 'Translation' of Hamlet", " The Frenchman and the Welsh Rabbit", "Misquotations", " Curious Misquotations of Well-known Authors", " Example of Collins", " Sir Walter Scott in Error", " Blunder of Sir Archibald Alison", " Cruikshank as the Real 'Simon Pure'", " Judge Best's 'Great Mind'", " Byron's Little Mistake", "Fabrications", " The Description of Christ's Person a Fabrication", " 'Detector's' Charge against Scott", " The 'Ministering Angel' not a Fabrication", " The Moon Hoax", " A Literary 'Sell'", " Carlyle's Worshippers Outwitted", " Mrs. Hemans' Forgeries", " Sheridan's 'Greek'", " Spurious Ballads", " The Simple Ballad Trick", " A Hoax upon Scott", " Psalmanazar's Celebrated Fabrications", " Benjamin Franklin's Parable", " The Forgeries of Ireland", " Imitations of Shakespeare", "Interrupted Sentences", " The Judge and the Criminal", " 'Free from Guile'", " Poor Mary 'Confined'", " Erskine's 'Subscription'", " A Satisfactory Note", " 'Little Hel", " Going to War", " The Poet Assisted; the Sun and the Fishes", " Giving him the 'lie'", " De Quincey and the Fiend", " Wit in the House of Common", "Echo Verse", " Ancient Echo Verses", " Address to Queen Elizabeth", " London before the Restoration", " Echo Song by Addison", " A Dutch Pasquinade", " The Gospel Echo", " Echo and the Lover", " Dean Swift's verses on Women", " Buonaparte and the Echo", " Fatal Verses", " Why Palm, the Publisher, was shot", " Remarkable Echoes", " A Fatal Confession", " Extraordinary facts in Acoustics", " Hearing Afar Off", "Puzzles", " Puzzles defended : their use and value", " Exercise for the Mind", " Ancient Perplexities", " 'The Liar'", " 'Puzzled to Death'", " A French rebus", " Napoleon Buonaparte's Cypher", " A Queer-looking Proclamation", " A curious Puzzle for the Lawyers", " Sir Isaac Newton's Riddle", " Cowper's Riddle", " Canning's Riddle", " A Prize Enigma", " Quincy' s Comparison", " Perplexing Intermarriages", " Prophetic Distich", " The 'Number of the Beast'", " Galileo's Logograph", " Persian Riddles", " The Chinese Tea Song", " Death and Life", " The Rebus", " What is it?", " The Book of Riddles", " Bishop Wilberforce's Riddle", " Curiosities of Cipher", " Secret Writing", " Remarkable Cryptographs", "Refractory Rhyming", " Julianna and the Lozenges", " Brougham's Rhyme for Morris", " The French Speculator's Epitaph", " What is a Monogomphe", " Rhymes for Month, Chimney, Liquid, Carpet, Window, Garden, Porringer, Orange, Lemon, Pilgrim, Widow, Timbuctoo, Niagara, Machonochie", " Rhyme to Gottingen", " The Ingoldsby Legends", " Punch's Funny Rhymes", " Chopin's Rhyme to Brimblecomb", " Butler's Rhyme to Philosopher", " A Rhyme to Germany", " Hood's Nocturnal Sketch", "Conformity of Sense to Sound", " Articulate Imitation of Inarticulate Sounds", " Example from Pope", " Milton's 'Lycidas'", " From Dyer's 'Ruins of Rome'", " Imitations of Time and Motion", " 'L'Allegro'", " Pope's 'Homer'", " Dryden's 'Lucretius'", " Milton's 'Il Penseroso'", " Fine Examples from Virgil", " Imitations of Difficulty and Ease", "Notes".

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