Thackeray burlesqued James so skilfully that he has already become a tradition.
In this work Mrs. Trollope's burlesque was burlesqued sufficiently well, perhaps, to amuse people at the moment, though it reads flatly enough now.
In one of his satires, Horace gives us an idea of the manner in which slaves burlesqued their lords at this jocund time.
A group of caricatured heads, types of expression and burlesqued peculiarities, in two prints, designed by Henry Wigstead, and engraved and published by Thomas Rowlandson.
Rowlandson found it so; and taking that as a sort of maxim which governed all things, physical as well as moral, in the polite city, heburlesqued even the burlesque.
My Lord Carteret's Hanoverian articles have much offended; his express has been burlesqued a thousand ways.
The Olympian gods and Homeric heroes were burlesqued for fun.
The heathen gods were taken under the protection of the mimus, instead of being burlesqued as they had been for several centuries.
The alternative of breaking her pledged word to her father, or of letting Nevil be burlesqued in the sight of the town, could no longer be dallied with.
These people are caricatures,' Tuckham said, in apology for poor England burlesqued abroad.
After "Romeo and Juliet," the first of Shakespeare's plays to beburlesqued was "Richard III.
Her adventure has been burlesqued at least twice--once by Francis Talfourd and a collaborator, at another time by Mr. H.
The first of Lord Byron's plays to be burlesqued was "Manfred," which fell to the lot of Gilbert Abbott a'Beckett in 1834.
Such unnecessary but crudely effective movement Stevenson burlesqued more than once in the stage directions of his Macaire.
When a wit hadburlesqued some lines of this dramatic poem, his uneasiness at the innocent banter was equally oppressive; nor could he rest, till, by the interposition of a friend, he prevailed upon the author to burn them.
In this he burlesqued the proceedings of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies with some degree of spirit and humour.
He burlesquedthe sensational novels of the day in Roberto, the Rover, and Moses, the Sassy.
He burlesqued the gushing love songs of the period, advertising in his program to render at appropriate intervals "Dearest, Whenest Thou Slumberest Dostest Thou Dreamest of Me?
Now I unfortunately parodied it and burlesqued the Professor, who stood at the end of the library, giving us suitable actions to the words.
The public imagined that I simply took a certain picture of a particular artist and burlesqued it.
He burlesqued his own religion as the most earnest constantly do, for we all revolve around ourselves as well as our suns.
Staring at the Capitol, which means so much nobility to him who has the nobility to understand the dream that raised it, he burlesqued its ideals.
The extravagances of Liszt worship, which certainly reached a pitch never surpassed in the annals of musical idolatry, are burlesqued in a series of paragraphs aimed at Wagner as well as his son-in-law to be.
The journey runs, after a few adventures, over into an elaborate practical joke in which Pankraz himself is burlesqued by his contemporaries.
She burlesqued his drawl with a little joyous laugh: "I reckon if you're right set on it I'll have to marry you, Val Collins.
Thank you," burlesqued the bandit gravely, with such an ironic touch of convention that Alice smiled.
But he has a notable talent at burlesque; his genius slides so naturally into it, that he hath burlesqued Homer without designing it.
Boileau's crusade, too, against the minor poets of his day was unfortunately followed by his own production of a ridiculous ode, excellently burlesqued by Prior, on the taking of Namur in 1692 by the French.
It is sufficient to say that both Gargantua and his son Pantagruel are the heroes of adventures, designedly exaggerated and burlesqued from those common in the romances of chivalry.
Northall writes, in Before and Behind the Curtain: "We shall long remember the comic humor with which he burlesqued the charming and graceful Fanny.
This gentleman has burlesqued the following eminent authors, by such a close imitation of their turn of verse, that it has not the appearance of a copy, but an original.
Pope's reputation for veracity was fatally wounded, and the newspapers burlesqued him mercilessly.
In 1894 he was again burlesqued in a parody of Lord Ormont and his Aminta, which ran through three numbers and was decorated with a portrait of the author as a bull in the china shop of syntax, grammar and form.
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