Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 548 pages Alphabetical whims : Alphabetical advertisement ; Enigmas ; Eve's legend ; Jacobite toast ; Letter H ; Lipogrammata and pangrammata ; Marriage of a lady to Mr. Gee ; The three initials ; Univocalic verses -- Acrostics : Alliterative on Miss Stephenson ; Brevity of human life ; Burke ; Chronogrammatic pasquinade ; Crabbe ; Dryden ; Emblematic fish ; Hempe ; Herbert, George ; Huber ; Irving ; Longfellow ; Macaulay ; Macready ; Masonic memento ; Monastic vow ; Napoleon family ; Oliver's impromptu on Arnold ; Rachel ; Reynolds ; Scott, Walter ; Southey ; Valentine ; Wordsworth -- Alliteration : Alphabetical ; Belgrade, siege of ; Bunker Hill Monument ; Prince Charles protected by Flora Macdonald ; Title-page for Book of Extracts ; Complimentary of chess ; Couplet on Cardinal Wolsey ; Felicitous flight of fancy ; Hood's Ode to Perry -- Anagrams The Bible : Accuracy of the Bible ; Bibliomancy ; Books belonging to, lost or unknown ; Dissection of Old and New Testaments ; Hexameters in the Bible ; Misquotations from scriptures ; Parallelism of the Hebrew poetry ; Parallel passages between Shakespeare and the Bible ; Scriptural sum ; Selah ; Similarity of sound ; Testimony of learned men ; The true gentleman -- Bouts rimés Bogart's impromptu ; Reversed rhyming ends The cento : Biblical cento ; Cento from Pope ; Mosaic poetry ; The return of Israel -- Chronograms -- Churchyard literature : Antithesis extraordinary ; Bathos ; Brevity ; Cento ; Earth to earth ; Epitaph, historical (acrostical ; African ; biographical ; curious and puzzling ; eulogistic, apt, appropriate ; Greek ; Hibernian ; miscellaneous ; moralizing and admonitory ; on eminent men ; on infants and children ; self-written ; transcendental ; unique and ludicrous) ; Mortuary puns ; Parallels without a parallel -- Concatenation, or chain verse : Lasphrise's novelties ; To death ; Truth ; Trying skying -- Conformity of sense to sound : Articulate imitation of inarticulate sounds ; Imitation of difficulty and ease, time and motion -- Curious books : Book-amateurs ; Most curious book in the world ; Odd titles of old books ; Silver book -- Customs, singular : Abyssinian beefsteaks ; Beautiful superstition ; Foundations of Druidical temples ; Hair in seals ; High life in the 15th century ; Lion-catching in South Africa ; Making noses ; Matrimonial advertisement ; Memento mori ; Ostiak regard for bears ; Scorning the church ; Strange fondness for beauty Difficult versification -- Ecclesiasticæ : Excessive civility ; Bascom, eloquence of ; Clerical blunders ; Lord Bishop ; Origin of texts ; Preachers of Cromwell's time ; Sermon on malt ; Short sermons -- Echo verse : Acoustics, extraordinary facts in ; Bonaparte and echo ; Echo answering (and the lover ; on woman) ; Echoes, remarkable ; Gospel echo ; Pasquinade ; Song by Addison ; Synod of Dort -- Emblematic poetry : Altar inscription ; Cross, The ; Crucifixion, curious piece of antiquity on ; Cypher, ingenious ; Essay to Miss Catherine Jay ; Hindu triplet ; Oxford joke ; Rhomboidal dirge ; Typographical ; Wine-glass, the -- The English language : Changes of signification ; Compound epithets ; Example of want of analogy ; Excise ; Influence of names ; I say ; Its ; Our vernacular in Chaucer's time ; Patho-ology ; sources of the language ; That ; Wig, etymology of -- Epigrams : Apollo, in return for a sketch of ; Author, to a living ; Bed, to our, Bonnets ; Butler's monument ; Campbell's album verse ; Clock, the ; Commissary Goldie's brains ; Compliment, overdrawn ; Dentist, definition of ; Determination, a funny ; Dum vivimus, vivamus ; D. D., on a certain ; Eternity ; Fell ; Fiddler, on a bad ; Fool and poet ; Friend, to Dr. Robert ; Friend, to a capricious ; Friend in distress ; German tourist, suggested by a ; Giving and taking ; Hog vs. Bacon ; Hot corn ; Lady who married a footman ; Late repentance ; Law, after going to ; Lawyer, on an ill-read ; Lover to his mistress, with a mirror ; Marriage à la mode ; Marriage of Webb & Gould ; Marshal's, on epigrams ; Masculine ; Medical advice ; Mend ax ; Midas and modern statesmen ; Molly Aston ; One good turn deserves another ; One ignorant and arrogant, on ; Pale lady with red-nosed husband ; Parson and butcher ; Portmanteau, clergyman's loss of ; Queen, the fugal ; Quid pro quo ; Reception, a warm ; Rogers on Ward's speeches ; Same jawbone ; Selvaggi's distich to Milton ; Simplicity, prudent ; Sleep, inscription on a statue of ; Snow, that melted on a lady's breast ; Songsters, bad ; Terminer sans oyer ; To -- ; Wellington's nose ; Widows ; Woman, contra, pro ; world, the ; Double vision utilized Equivoque : Double-faced creed ; Fatal double meaning ; Houses of Stuart and Hanover ; Ingenious subterfuge ; Love-letter ; New regime ; Revolutionary verse ; Richelieu's letter to the French ambassador -- Facetæ : Brevity ; Gasconade and hoaxing ; Hippophagy ; Jests of Hierocles ; Mathews and the silver spoon ; Relics ; Royal quandary ; Same joke diversified ; Titles for library door -- Familiar quotations from unfamiliar sources -- Hiberniana -- I. H. S. : Beautiful legend ; Death-warrant of Jesus Christ ; De nomine Jesu ; Descriptions of the Saviour's person ; Flower of Jesse ; Persian apologue -- Impromptus -- Inscriptions : Bells, inscriptions on ; Books, fly-leaf inscriptions in ; English inns in olden time ; Æolian harp, inscription on ; Francke's discovery ; Golden mottoes ; Motton on a clock ; Posies from wedding-rings ; Spring, inscription over ; Tavern-signs ; Watch-paper inscription ; Wedding-ring, Lady Grey's ; Window-pane inscriptions Life and death : Bodies, preserved ; Bone not described by modern anatomists ; Charter rhyming ; Common heritage ; Corpses, folly of embalming ; Death's final conquest ; Definition, rhyming ; Dying words of distinguished persons ; Earth ; Lawyers, nice questions for ; Mary, Queen of Scots, last prayer of ; Moral code, Dr. Frankenstein's ; Questions for discussion ; Remarkable trance ; Round of life, the ; Time, employment of -- Literaria : Additional verses to Sweet Home ; anachronisms of Shakespeare ; Books and studies ; Gray's elegy ; Hamlet's age ; Hamlet's insanity ; Heraldry, Indian ; Parting interview of Hector and Andromache ; Punctuation, importance of ; Shakespeare's sonnets ; Stereotyped falsehoods of history -- Literati : Attainments of linguists ; Dryden and his publishers ; Literary oddities ; Literary screw -- The Lord's prayer : Acrostical paraphrase ; The prayer echoed ; Gothic version ; Metrical versions ; Spirit of the prayer ; The prayer illustrated ; Thy and us Macaronic verse : Am Rhein ; Parting address to a friend ; Polyglot inscription ; Treatise on wine -- Memoria technica [i.e., Mnemonic devices] : Books of the Old Testament ; Days in each month ; English sovereigns ; Metrical grammar ; Presidents of the United States ; Shakespeare's plays -- Miscellaneous facts for the curious : Aerolites ; Alligators swallowing stones ; America's discoverers, fate of ; Amount of gold in the world ; Antipathies ; Army of women ; Beer-casks, capacious ; Black hole at Calcutta ; Broken heart ; Chick in the egg ; Cloth-manufacture, celerity of ; Colors, diversity of ; Composition in dreams ; Crown of England ; Crude value vs industrial value ; Devonshire superstition ; Diameter to circumference, ratio of ; Difference between English poets ; Equestrian expeditions, remarkable ; Facial expression ; Fear, effects of ; Feline clocks ; Heaven, dimensions of ; Horse, wonderful ; Indian and his tamed snake ; Innate appetite ; Kaleidoscope, changes of ; Lock, wonderful ; Longevity, instances of remarkable ; Marriage vow ; Mathematical prodigies ; Memory, extraordinary ; Minute mechanism ; Noah's ark and the Great Eastern ; Number nine, seven, three ; Opium and East Indian hemp ; Painter, blunders of ; Perils of precocity ; Presidents, facts about the ; Quantity and value ; Romans, immense wealth of ; Romantic highwayman ; Salt as a luxury ; Sensation and intelligence after decapitation ; Sheep, habits of ; Skull that had a tongue ; Sleep, facts about ; Solomon's temple, cost of ; Stone barometer ; Strychnia, bitterness of ; Sympathy, strange instance of ; Taste, singular change of ; Walking blindfolded ; Wine at tow millions a bottle -- Monosyllables : The power of short words -- Moslem wisdom : Alexandrian Library ; Mohammedan logic ; Shrewd decision of Ali ; Turkish expedients ; Wisdom of Ali -- Name of God, the : Orthography ; Parsee, Jew, and Christian -- Nothing new under the sun : Aerial navigation ; Anæsthesia ; Auscultation and percussion ; Circulation of the blood ; Discovery of America, predictions of ; Magnetic telegraph, foreshadowings ; Steam-power, first discoverer of ; Stereoscope ; Table-moving and alphabet-rapping -- Origin of things familiar : All Fool's Day [i.e., April Fools Day] ; American flag ; Bottled ale ; Blue stocking ; Brother Jonathan ; Bumper ; Cards ; Dollar-mark ; Drinking health ; Dun ; Earliest newspapers ; First doctors (piano-forte ; prayer in Congress ; printing by steam) First telegraphic message, Thanksgiving proclamation ; Humbug ; Kicking the bucket ; La Marseillaise ; Mind your P's and Q's ; News ; Nine tailors make a man ; Old Hundred ; Order of the Garter ; Over the left ; Pasquinades ; Postpaid envelopes ; Potato ; Royal saying ; Signature of the cross ; Stockings ; Sub rosa ; Tarring and feathering ; Turkish crescent ; Uncle Sam ; Various inventions and customs ; Viz ; Word book ; Yankee Doodle -- O. S. and N. S. : Results of change in style -- Palindromes -- Parallel passages -- Paronmasia [i.e., Puns] : Ben, the carpenter ; Book-larceny ; Classical puns and mottoes ; Court fool's pun on Land ; Epitaph on an old horse ; From Holmes's modest request ; Grand scheme of emigration ; Miss-nomers ; Mottoes of English peerage ; Old joke versified ; Plaint of the old pauper ; Printer's epitaph ; Pungent chapter ; Russian double entendre ; Sheridan's complaint ; Short road to wealth ; Sonnet ; Sticky ; Swift's Latin puns ; Tom Moore ; To my nose ; Top and bottom ; Unconscious puns ; Vegetable girl ; Whiskers vs. razor ; Women ; Jeu de mots : Anagrammatic ; Iterative (Bees of the Bible ; Catalectic monody ; Crooked coincidences ; Fair letter ; Franklin's re's ; November ; On the death of Kildare ; Schott and Willing ; Swarm of bees ; Turn to the left ; Write written right ) ; Spiritual Persian poetry : Beauty's prerogative ; Broken hearts ; Caliph and Satan ; Double plot ; Earth as illusion ; Folly for one's self ; Fortune and worth ; From Mirtsa Schaffy ; Generous man ; Heaven an echo of earth ; Impossibility ; Moral atmosphere ; Proud humility ; Sober drunkenness ; Wine-drinker's metaphors ; World's unappreciation -- Personal sketches and anecdotes : André, Major ; Bonaparte (name in Greek, appearance of, Milton and Napoleon ; opinion of suicide) ; Cromwell, Oliver ; Elizabeth, Queen ; Franklin's wife ; Lafayette ; Luther ; Pope's skull ; Shakespeare's orthodoxy ; Washington ; Wickliffe's ashes -- Prose poetry : Cowper's letter to Newton ; Example in Irving's New York ; Nelly's funeral -- Prototypes : Falls of Lanark ; Franklin, Turgot's epigraph on ; Know-Nothings ; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence ; Old ballads ; Pilgrim's Progress, original of ; Plagiarism, great literary ; Proverb misascribed to Defoe ; Robinson Crusoe -- who wrote it ; Scandinavian skull-caps ; Use of language -- Puritan peculiarities : Connecticut blue laws, extracts from ; Punishments ; Similes ; Surnames -- Puzzles : Bonapartean cypher ; Book of riddles ; Canning's riddle ; Case for the lawyers ; Chinese tea-song ; Cowper's riddle ; Death and life ; Galileo's logograph ; Newton's riddle ; Number of the beast ; Persian riddles ; Prize enigma ; Prophetic distich ; Quincy's comparison ; Rebus (Bacon motto, French) ; Singular intermarriages ; What is it The sexes : Female society ; Happy woman, character of ; Letter to a bride ; My mother ; Parallel of the sexes ; Praise of women ; Wife, mistress, lady -- Tall writing : Anatomist to his dulcinea ; Borde's prologue ; Burlesque of Dr. Johnson's style ; Chemical valentine ; Clear as mud ; Domicile erected by John ; Foote's farrago ; From the curiosities of advertising ; From the curiosities of the post-office ; Indignant letter ; Intramural æstivation ; Mad pet ; Newspaper eulogy ; Ode to spring ; Transcendentalism, definition of -- Triumphs of ingenuity : Choosing a king ; Discovery of the planet Neptune ; Discovery of Vulcan ; King John and the abbot ; Lesson worth learning ; Strategem of Columbus -- Weather-wisdom : Davy on weather-omens ; Sheridan's rhyming calendar ; Signs of the weather ; Unlucky days