Horace Smith

Rejected Addresses; Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum

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Rejected Addresses: Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum is the title of an 1812 book of parodies by the brothers James and Horace Smith. It contained 21 good-natured parodies of authors of the time, and was a popular success. Horace Smith was also well known for his sonnet writing competition with Percy Shelly.
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REJECTED ADDRESSES:

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE TWENTY-SECOND EDITION.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

PREFACE TO EIGHTEENTH EDITION. [0b]

CONTENTS.

REJECTED ADDRESSES. [1]

I. LOYAL EFFUSION.

II. THE BABY’S DEBUT. [5a]

III. AN ADDRESS WITHOUT A PHŒNIX. [10a]

IV. CUI BONO?

V. HAMPSHIRE FARMER’S ADDRESS.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF DRURY-LANE PLAYHOUSE.

IN THE CHARACTER OF A HAMPSHIRE FARMER.

VI. THE LIVING LUSTRES.

VII. THE REBUILDING.

VIII. DRURY’S DIRGE. [38a]

IX. A TALE OF DRURY LANE.

X. JOHNSON’S GHOST. [52]

XI. THE BEAUTIFUL INCENDIARY. [56a]

XII. FIRE AND ALE.

XIII. PLAYHOUSE MUSINGS.

XIV. DRURY-LANE HUSTINGS.

XV. ARCHITECTURAL ATOMS.

XVI. THEATRICAL ALARM-BELL.

XVII. THE THEATRE.

A PREFACE OF APOLOGIES.

THE THEATRE

XVIII. XIX. XX. TO THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE NEW DRURY LANE THEATRE. [93]

CASE, No. I. MACBETH.

CASE, No. II. THE STRANGER. [96]

CASE, No. III. GEORGE BARNWELL. [98]

XXI. PUNCH’S APOTHEOSIS.

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