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History of English Humor (Vol. 1&2)
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART I
ORIGIN OF HUMOUR
PART II
GREEK HUMOUR
PART III
ROMAN HUMOUR
ENGLISH HUMOUR
CHAPTER I
MIDDLE AGES
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
Robert Green
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
FOOTNOTES:
Volume 2
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
FOOTNOTES
A. G. K. L'Estrange
Complete Edition
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To return to the Cæsars. The humorous vein which we have traced in the family descended to Augustus—the great nephew of Julius. Some of his sayings, which have survived, show him to have been as pleasant in his wit as he was proverbially happy in his fortunes.
When the inhabitants of Tarraco made him a fulsome speech, telling him that they had raised an altar to him as their presiding deity, and that, marvellous to relate, a splendid palm tree had grown up on it: "That shows," replied the Emperor, "how often you kindle a fire there." To Galba, a hunchback orator, who was pleading before him, and frequently saying, "Set me right, if I am wrong," he replied, "I can easily correct you, but I cannot set you right."
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