Category: Humour
_"Le sujet que l'on entreprend de parodier doit toujours être un ouvrage connu, célèbre, estimé. La critique d'une pièce médiocre ne peut jamais devenir intéressante, ni piquer la curiosité. Il faut que l'imitation soit fidèle, que les plaisantéries naissent du fond des choses...
_"Le sujet que l'on entreprend de parodier doit toujours être un ouvrage connu, célèbre, estimé. La critique d'une pièce médiocre ne peut jamais devenir intéressante, ni piquer...
8. PART III.The curtain falls on this delightful scene, As space is precious and will not permit Of further details; but this goes to show That things don't always turn out just the same As...
3. PART II.YET oft the riddle of Art's real drift Flashed through me as I sat and gazed. But not the less some season I made shift To keep my wits undazed.
5. ACT III.--THE UPPER HALL IN STEER'S FARM.Assuming that Mrs. Bernard-Beere, as _Dora Steer_, speaks these lines, we have the counterpart of the villainously seductive Earl in _Philip Edgar_, a thankless part, which was...
2. PART I.To women weird and wondrous, long of jaw, And lank of limb, and greenish as with mould, And full-red lips and shocks of fulvous hair, And raiments strange of fold.
7. PART II.Sam went to sea, and whilst upon a voyage, He read of Enoch Arden and his woes; And so he soon resolved to do the same As in the book he read that Enoch did. To carry out his pl...
6. PART I.In a fair village on the English coast There dwelt a lad--they called him Hunky Sam. He was but young--three years, or may be four, But manly for his age; his appetite For bulls...
4. ACT I.--STEER'S FARM.