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The Poetical Works of Laman Blanchard

With a Memoir by Blanchard Jerrold

Blanchard, Laman (1804-1845)

I.

PART I.POEMS OF SENTIMENT.

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II.

PART II.POEMS OF HUMOUR.

THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING.

THE EPITAPH OF 1830.

ON FIRST SEEING THE PORTRAIT OF L.E.L.

APOSTROPHE TO THE APPROACHING COMET.

ODE TO THE LITTLE LORD MAYOR.

A BRAHAM-ESE BALLAD

THE LADIES AND THE PARLIAMENT.

ON MACLISE'S PORTRAIT OF MACREADY IN MACBETH.

ON THE DESTRUCTION OF SIR JOHN SOANE'S PORTRAIT BELONGING TO THE LITERARY FUND SOCIETY.

FALSE LOVE AND TRUE LOGIC.

CONGRATULATORY VERSES TO MISS ELLEN TREE.

TO ELLEN TREE IN ‘ION.’

THE BREAKFAST PARTY.

ACUTE DEDUCTION.

PHILOSOPHY OF GAMES.

A POETICAL COLUMN.

THE PROPER USE OF THE EYES.

MINERVA AT THE PORTICO OF THE ATHENÆUM TO THE DUKE OF YORK AT THE HEAD OF HIS COLUMN.

“THE VIXEN.”

CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO MADAME VESTRIS ON HER RECENT JOURNEY TO BRIGHTON.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S STOCKINGS.

HER MAJESTY'S EXCURSION TO BRIGHTON.

HELEN FAUCIT IN ‘THE LADY OF LYONS.’

TO WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY.

LOVE'S MASQUERADINGS.

TWO OF A TRADE.

A SONG OF CONTRADICTIONS.

LINES BY A Y---G L---Y OF F*SH---N.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

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ACUTE DEDUCTION.

‘He takes his hat, and why I would be knowing.’
‘Learn,’ cries that subtle devil, Paul,—‘he's going!’