Selections from the British Satirists: With an Introductory Essay by Cecil (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Selections From the British Satirists: With an Introductory Essay by Cecil

Again, with a view to saving space for pieces more generally interesting and more genuinely amusing, I have been as sparing as possible in my selections from authors who require to be read dictionary in hand. I have aimed merely at giving extracts representative of the early English school, not of each early English satirist.

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