It is to be remembered that nascent Protestantism in England under Henry VIII resorted to the weapons of obscene parody (Blunt, Ref.
Line: 16 A parodyof course on Prynne's Histrio-mastix.
No doubt Cleveland's actual parody is rather coarse and not extraordinarily witty: but there is no more objection to it in principle than to Thackeray's two forms of the 'Willow Song' in Ottilia.
If genuine, this is therefore an early effort; it might be an undergraduate flight, like the parody on Austin.
If Milton had had the humour to parody some of his own work, it would have been much the better for him and for us.
But, instead of continuing our observations, suppose we parody his Lordship's Address, and apply it to February 1814: TO A YOUNG LADY.
We read in the parody of Coleridge, in "Rejected Addresses": Amid the freaks that modern fashion sanctions, It grieves me much to see live animals Brought on the stage.
This latter contains some skilful parody on old fogyism.
A fugue is used incidentally with a burlesque effect that reminds one of Berlioz' "Amen" parody in the "Damnation of Faust.
Simultaneously Bel caught sight of her and, with a blurred travesty of his really charming smile, and a faltering parody of that air of gallant alacrity which she had once thought so engaging, moved to intercept Lucinda.
For an instant she stared hopelessly at Nolan, comprehending that this vile parody of the design she had approved was due wholly to his arbitrary action in contradicting the plans without reference to her wishes.
Do not a good many of them perform that parody every day of their lives?
Things began to wear the look of a parody from the Lutrin.
The True History, a parody of the old Greek historians, (vii) Influence of the Old Comedy writers: vanity of human wishes.
On one occasion he had gone so far as to parody one of the tracts they had sent round in the night, and to get a copy dropped into each of the leading Simeonites' boxes.
The Modern Endymion,' from which an extract is given, is a parody on Disraeli's earlier manner.
Fortunately for our purpose, there were then living not a few poets whose style and manner of thought were sufficiently marked to make imitation easy, and sufficiently popular for a parody of their characteristics to be readily recognized.
After the publication of thisparody John Davis printed "The Philadelphia Pursuits of Literature.
It was a parodyof Rivington's "Petition to Congress," and was called "The Humble Representation and Earnest Supplication of J.
She wrote a parody upon Pope which was printed with Nathaniel Evans' poems (1772): How happy is the country parson's lot!
Many things in Buddhism lent themselves to such a transformation orparody of earlier teaching.
The griotes accompany the barbaric songs of their husbands with lascivious dances, and form a grotesque parody on the nautch girls of India and the almes of Egypt.
The parody consists in the similarity of their achievements to those of knight-errantry, while they are themselves in all points unlike the champions of chivalry.
Cene dalla Chitarra, his satirical Poems on the Months inparody of Folgore da Gemignano, iv.
The Cortigiana is a parodyof Castiglione's Cortegiano.
The one entitled Moscheis is an elegant parody of the Batrachomyomachia, relating the wars of ants and flies in elegiac verse.
The effect of parody is thus obtained by emphasizing the style of elder poets and suddenly breaking off into a different vein.
Another Paduan author used this parody of humanistic verse to caricature a humanist, whom he called Vigonca.
But this parody of the Empire was requisite in order to free the mass of the French nation from the weight of tradition, and to elaborate sharply the contrast between Government and Society.
His very clever parodyof a touching and well-known poem of the time, found its way to many a camp-fire and became a classic about the Richmond "hells.
Satan is a parody of Heraclitus' conception of War.
Five-and-twenty years ago the schools of art at South Kensington were the most comical in the world; they were the most complete parody on the Continental school of art possible to imagine.
Footnote: The speech seems to contain a parody of Augustus's style and sayings.
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