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BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
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ALBUM VERSES AND OTHER POEMS-
Dedication to the Publisher
In the Album of a Clergyman's Lady
In the Autograph Book of Mrs. Serjeant W-
In the Album of Lucy Barton
In the Album of Miss
To the Same
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To James Sheridan Knowles
To the Editor of the "Everyday Book "
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To Caroline Maria Applebee
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To Cecilia Catherine Lawton
To a Lady who Desired me to Write her Epitaph
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To her Youngest Daughter.
To my Friend the Indicator.
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SATAN IN SEARCH OF A WIFE
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TRANSLATIONS-
The Ballad Singers.
To David Cook, Watchman
On a Sepulchral Statue of an Infant Sleeping
That a bully is always a coward
Nuga Critica
Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago
Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in Modern Art
The Wedding
Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age
Old China
The Child Angel: a Dream
Confessions of a Drunkard
Elia on his Confessions of a Drunkard
Popular Fallacies
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That ill-gotten gains never prosper
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That a man must not laugh at his own jest
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he is no gentleman
That such an one shows his breeding-that it is easy to perceive
That enough is as good as a feast
That the poor copy the vices of the rich
Of two disputants, the warmest is generally in the wrong
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translation
That verbal allusions are not wit, because they will not bear a
That the worst puns are the best
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That handsome is that handsome does
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On the Inconveniences Resulting from being Hanged
On the Danger of Confounding Moral with Personal Deformity
On the Custom of Hissing at the Theatres.
On Burial Societies and the Character of an Undertaker