It was such a temper, rather than reasoned unbelief, that inspired the blasphemous parodies in Reynard the Fox and other popular works of the Middle Ages.
Then, again, the most famous of Purim parodiespreceded the Ghetto period.
The official Ghetto begins with the opening of the sixteenth century, whereas the best parodies belong to a much earlier date, the fourteenth century.
All about coons and girls, parodies of hymns, parodies about Kaiser Bill, and sheer unadulterated nonsense.
Among Smedley's clever parodies of Swift's writings are those of A Tale of a Tub, Against Abolishing Christianity, and Gulliver's Travels.
They are the parodies of wise men, and their arts are the parodies of true arts and sciences.
Nicol Heinelius published not less than fifty parodies of this poem, in a small book entitled "Phaselus Catulli, et ad eundem Parodiarum a diversis auctoribus scriptarum decades quinque; ex Bibliotheca Nic.
There have been nearly as many parodiesof this poem, as imitations of that last mentioned.
There are noisy processions, cavalcades, and even scandalous parodies of some of the most sacred services of the Church.
The other case was when Irving Berlin and a number of other songwriters sued Mad, because we used to publish a lot of articles of song parodieswhich we'd say were sung to the tune of so-and-so.
But the majority of his time these days goes to writing and performing special lyrics for special occasions -- usually parodies of his own hit songs.
James Smith, one of the authors of the Rejected Addresses,--a series of parodies rivalled only by those of Bon Gaultier, lived at No.
This is equally true of Cene dalla Chitarra's satirical parodies of the Months, in which, using the same rhymes as Folgore, he turns each of his motives to ridicule.
From these brief notices it will be seen that terza rima during the Renaissance period was reserved for dissertational, didactic and satiric themes, the Capitoli of the burlesque poets being parodies of grave scholastic lucubrations.
Large numbers are parodies of amatory or obscene songs, beginning with nearly the same words and intended to be sung to the same tunes.
But it contained two or three parodies which deserve to rank with the best in the language.
And it will be remembered that Mr. Slum composed some very telling parodies of the same popular author as advertisements for Mrs. Jarley's Waxworks; but I forbear to quote here what is so easily accessible.
If I were to indulge in quotations from well-known parodies of prose, this chapter would soon overflow all proper limits.
The most delightful essay in one of his books of Reprints deals with this amazing bard, and contains some parodies so perfect that Mr. Haynes Bayly would have rejoicingly claimed them as his own.
Such, to a generation brought up on Milton and Pope, were the styles of the various poetasters satirized in Rejected Addresses; but excellent as are the metricalparodies in that famous book, the prose is even better.
The Ballads of Bon Gaultier, published anonymously in 1855, had a success which would only have been possible at a time when really artistic parodies were unknown.
Perkin and the warming-pan were the burden of every lay, and a peal of parodies celebrated the flight of the Stuart.
Libels on Buonaparte, burlesques on his acts, parodies of his bulletins, accounts of the atrocities of his armies, were daily put forth, mingled with countless songs and tracts of encouragement and defiance.
The phrase italicized parodies a passage occurring in The True Tragedie of Richard, Duke of York, &c.
Plato Comicus, the author of 28 comedies, political satires and parodies after the style of the Middle Comedy.
This comedy was published in 1672; the parodies are amusing; and though parody is the most unfair weapon that ridicule can use, they are in most instances warranted by the original.
The versification of this once famous mock-heroic poem is smooth and regular, but not forcible; the language clear and neat; the parodies and allusions happy.
His celebrated domestic tragedy of Inez de Castro, the fable of which turns on a concealed and clandestine marriage, produced one of the happiest parodiesin Agnes de Chaillot.
We should like to have appropriated some of these silli, or parodies of Timon the Sillograph, which, however, seem to have been at times calumnious.
Parodies were frequently practised by the ancients, and with them, like ourselves, consisted of a work grafted on another work, but which turned on a different subject by a slight change of the expressions.
There are parodies even in Plato; and an anecdotical one, recorded of this philosopher, shows them in their most simple state.
The numerous parodies of Hamlet's soliloquy were never made in derision of that solemn monologue, any more than the travesties of Virgil by Scarron and Cotton; their authors were never so gaily mad as that.
Among his youthful parodies of old English poets is one piece entitled "The Alley," a not over clever burlesque of the famous description of the Bower of Bliss.
This is probably the most comprehensive volume of Parodies ever issued.
It may, indeed, be surmised that some scenes in Friar Bacon are parodies of their pompous analogues in Dr.
The Old Wives' Tale fairly parodies the induction in James IV.
They doubtless existed much earlier, though I do not think that they anticipated the parodies of sacred rites or the ecclesiastical saints' plays.
It has been remarked above that ridicule of the philosophers and parodies of the tragic poets were standing dishes in the middle comedy.
The puns of Aristophanes, for the most part, are very bad, but the parodies are excellent.
Farquhar parodiesthe French expression into “Soup for breakfast, soup for dinner, soup for supper, and soup for breakfast again.
The Dream, as I now know, is not best served by making parodies of it, and it does not greatly matter after all whether a book be an epic or a directory.
Like parodies of phrases in Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, and other Shakespearean plays ripple the stream of Beaumont's humour.
He wrote severalparodies on sensational novels of his time.
Nothing of Ivanhoe is injured, nothing made less valuable than it was before, yet, of all prose parodies in the language, it is perhaps the most perfect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parodies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
