Reflections of a Bachelor Girl - Helen Rowland

Nothing to Say Q. K. Philander Doesticks Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1874 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This is a humor book. These dying men to soothe and cheer? To do what mortal skill may do. To lighten their burdens of grief and woe; To shrive these dying souls of blame, To bid them hope in Heaven above. Who hath sent these in my dear name. To do this holiest work of love? Hath the treasure here given been paid by those. Whose 'wrongs' are so earnestly plead by you? Or hath it been done by their 'natural foes'. The wealthy, the rich, the opulent few. Of Madison Square and the Fifth Avenue? During this lengthy interrogation. The Spirit had been pretending to doze. But he waked himself up at the peroration. And most ungallantly turned up his nose. And turned on his heel, and turned him away, -- Sulkily saying, he'd Nothing to Say.

Nothing to Say - Q. K. Philander Doesticks

A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1744 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

A Character of the prefent Set of Wits in this Ifland. A Panegyrical Effay upon the Number Three. A Differtation upon the principal productions of Grub-ftree. Lectures upon the Diffection of Human Nature. A Panegyrick upon the World. An Analytical Difcourfe upon Zeal, Hiftori-theophyfi-logically confidered. A general Hiftory of Ears. A modeft Defence of the Proceedings of the Rabble in all Ages. A Defcription of the Kingdom of Abfurdities. A Voyage into England, by a Perfon of Quality in Terra Auftralis incognita, tranflated from the Original. A Critical Effay upon the Art of Canting, Philofophically, Phyfically, and Mufically confidered

A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift

More Nonsense Edward Lear Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1861 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This is a melody book. Lear's second collection of limericks appeared in 1872 in More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes Botany &c., published by Robert Bush. This book, as the title suggests, contained not only limericks, but also botanies and a collection of twenty-six other 'nonsense rhymes and pictures' describing as many characters (mainly animals) so as to form an alphabet. Though the name given these is the same he used for the limericks, they are not really 'rhymes', but rather short prose descriptions.

More Nonsense - Edward Lear

Essays and Tales Joseph Addison Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1718 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

The book is the sixty-fourth volume of the contains those papers from the Tatler which were especially associated with the imagined character of Isaac Bickerstaff who was the central figure in that series; and in the twenty-ninth volume there is a similar collection of papers relating to the Spectator Club and Sir Roger de Coverley who was the central figure in Steele and Addison’s Spectator. Those volumes contained no doubt some of the best essays of addison and Steele. But in the Tatler and Spectator are full armories of the wit and wisdom of these two writers who summoned into life the army of the essayists and led it on to kindly war against the forces of Ill-temper and Ignorance. Envy Hatred Malice and all their first cousins of the family of Charitableness are captains under those two commanders-in-chief and we can little afford to dismiss from the field two of the stoutest combatants against them. In this volume it is only Addison who speaks and in another volume presently to follow there will be the voice of Steele. The two friends differed in temperament and in many of the outward signs of character but these two little books will very distinctly show how wholly they agreed as to essentials. For Addison Literature had a charm of its own he delighted in distinguishing the finer graces of good style and he drew from the truths of life the principles of taste in writing.

Essays and Tales - Joseph Addison

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 08 Dante Alighieri Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1320 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This the 8th volume of classic book by Dante about his visit to hell, purgatory and paradise, where he meets people he knew.

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 08 - Dante Alighieri

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 3: Stories and Romances Artemus Ward Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1866 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

My story opens in the classic presinks of Bostin. In the parler of a bloated aristocratic mansion on Bacon street sits a luvly young lady, whose hair is cuvered ore with the frosts of between 17 Summers. She has just sot down to the piany, and is warblin the popler ballad called Smells of the Notion, in which she tells how, with pensiv thought, she wandered by a C beat shore. The son is settin in its horizon, and its gorjus light pores in a golden meller flud through the winders, and makes the young lady twict as beautiful nor what she was before, which is onnecessary. She is magnificently dressed up in a Berage basque, with poplin trimmins, More Antique, Ball Morals and 3 ply carpeting. Also, considerable gauze. Her dress contains 16 flounders and her shoes is red morocker, with gold spangles onto them. Presently she jumps up with a wild snort, and pressin her hands to her brow, she exclaims: Methinks I see a voice.

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 3: Stories and Romances - Artemus Ward

An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad Walter Harte Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1773 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

Since the first publication of Walter Harte's An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad, it has reappeared more than once: the unsold sheets of the first edition were included in A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose, Which Have Been Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad (1732), and the Essay is also found in at least three late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century collections of poetry. For several reasons, however, it makes sense to reprint the Essay again. The three collections are scarce and have forbiddingly small type; I know of no other twentieth-century reprinting; and, perhaps most important, Aubrey Williams claims that "the critical value for the Dunciad of Harte's poem has not been fully appreciated". Its value can best be substantiated, or disputed, if it is rescued from its typographical limbo in the collections and reprinted from its more attractive first edition.

An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad - Walter Harte

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete Dante Alighieri Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1320 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This is the complete classic book of "The Divine Comedy by Dant" by Dante about his visit to hell, purgatory and paradise, where he meets people he knew.

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete - Dante Alighieri

The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor Helen Rowland Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1875 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

WHAT! Would you cast a loving Woman hence? Thou, Fickle One, prepare for penitence! Full many a golden ducat shall you pay To drown the memory of such insolence. AND every note, that, in your cups, you write, In cold black Type, perchance shall see the light; While all the World, across its coffee urn, Shall titter gaily at the sorry sight. AH yes! For all the papers, which discussed Your wedding plans, shall turn your cake to crust, Publish your letters and your photographs, And trail your Egotism in the dust!

The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor - Helen Rowland

The Humors of Falconbridge 1818-1854 Falconbridge Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1853 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This book is a collection of short stories of Humorous and Every Day Scenes, which is containing our daily lifes up and downs sweet and bitter experiences.

The Humors of Falconbridge - 1818-1854 Falconbridge

Laughable Lyrics Edward Lear Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1876 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

It is a melody book. Hillarious, fantastic poems that I enjoyed reading to my two sons when they were little. Now I'd like to read them for anyone's children to enjoy listening to.

Laughable Lyrics - Edward Lear

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 4: To California and Return Artemus Ward Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1866 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

Her decks are crowded with excited passengers, who instantly undertake to look after their trunks and things; and what with our smashing against each other, and the yells of the porters, and the wails over lost baggage, and the crash of boxes, and the roar of the boilers, we are for the time being about as unhappy a lot of maniacs as was ever thrown together.

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 4: To California and Return - Artemus Ward

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 5: The London Punch Letters Artemus Ward Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1866 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

Mr. Punch: My dear Sir, You prob'ly didn't meet my uncle Wilyim when he was on these shores. I jedge so from the fack that his pursoots wasn't litrary. Commerce, which it has been trooly observed by a statesman, or somebody, is the foundation stone onto which a nation's greatness rests, glorious Commerce was Uncle Wilyim's fort. He sold soap. It smelt pretty, and redily commanded two pents a cake. I'm the only litrary man in our fam'ly.

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 5: The London Punch Letters - Artemus Ward

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War Artemus Ward Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1866 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

The present edition is of a work which has been for more than thirty years prominently before the public, and which may be justly said to have maintained a standard character.

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War - Artemus Ward

The Jest Book Mark Lemon Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1869 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

The Compiler of this new Jest Book is desirous to make known that it is composed mainly of old jokes, —some older than Joe Miller himself, —with a liberal sprinkling of new jests gathered from books and hearsay. In the course of his researches he has been surprised to find how many Jests, Impromptus, and Repartees have passed current, century after century, until their original utterer is lost in the "mist of ages"; a Good Joke being transferred from one reputed Wit to another, thus resembling certain rare Wines which are continually being rebottled but are never consumed.

The Jest Book - Mark Lemon

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1320 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

On the surface, the poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven; but at a deeper level, it represents, allegorically, the soul's journey towards God. At this deeper level, Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete - 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri

Nuts and Nutcrackers Charles James Lever Genre: Humour Publish Date: 31 December 1871 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This book is a collection of popular collection of humorous essays by the author Charles James Lever.

Nuts and Nutcrackers - Charles James Lever