33 Verbs to Use for the Word parody

[Footnote: The speech seems to contain a parody of Augustus's style and sayings.]

You had the confounded cheek to borrow from me the very book of songs you used when you wrote the parody, and you were fool enough to leave the rough copy in it when you brought it back.

The Roman tragi-comedyafter the type of the -Amphitruo- of Plautuswas no doubt styled by the Roman literary historians -fabula Rhinthonica-; but the newer Attic comedians also composed such parodies, and it is difficult to see why the Ionians should have resorted for their translations to Rhinthon and the older writers rather than to those who were nearer to their own times.

Then Mr. Bright, who had returned a captain, appeared with his company, consisting of Tom and Chloe with their children, and Tulee with her children, singing a parody composed by himself, of which the chorus was: "Blow ye the trumpet abroad o'er the sea, Columbia has triumphed, the negro is free!

In 1708 he published a vapid and stupid parody, suggested by John Philip's Splendid Shilling and Cider, entitled Wine.

Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, in Mary and Charles Lamb, 1874, says: "I found these linesa parody on the popular, or nursery, ditty, 'Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home'officiating as a wrapper to some of Mr. Hazlitt's hair.

" She went away with this parting shot, stepping high and holding her head poised loftilyan absurd parody of the Vicar in his most clerical moments.

The air was darkened by hurtling parodies, the arrangement of which is still a standing crux to the bibliographers.

Certain Americans and Europeans took them up at first because they introduced a parody of some Christian doctrines into their manifestoes.

In the latter year he had, much to the disgust of Sir John Soames, issued some very amusing parodies of the Philosophical Transactions, which he entitled Useful Transactions in Philosophy and other sorts of Learning, to be continued as long as it could find buyers.

but I cannot have you making any more outrageous parodies like astonished corpses, and people everywhere laughing at Queen Freydis!"

Two men of extraordinary character, which presented a savage parody of military talent, and a courage chiefly remarkable for the ferocity into which it degenerated, struggled for a while against the imperial arms.

They joined to produce a parody entitled the "Town and Country Mouse;" part of which Mr. Bayes is supposed to gratify his old friends, Smith and Johnson, by repeating to them.

407, n. 3; attempts made to bring him into it, ii. 137-139; projects an historical account of it, i. 155; parodies on Percy, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4; Warton, iii. 158, n. 3; party-opposition, averse to, ii. 348, n. 2; passions, his, iv.

He had not, however, so far as it appears, given away a single copy, when, on the very first day of the next session of Parliament, Lord Sandwich himself brought the parody under the notice of the House of Lords.

Unless you are set on a solitary day that man 'might as well be you'"she punctuated the parody with a mocking little moue.

Gillman, to whom I read the spirited parody on the introduction to Peter Bell, the Ode to the Great Unknown, and to Mrs. Fry; he speaks doubtfully of Reynolds and Hood.

See ante, iii. 326, where Johnson said 'the first Whig was the Devil.' Boswell was stung by what Mrs. Piozzi wrote when recording this parody.

They may, indeed, be regarded as to some extent at least a parody of the two kindsthe courtly and the popular pastoralsince by combining the two each was made the foil and criticism of the other.

He had never revealed this parody of a diagnosis to his anxious family, who always believed the city doctor had found something deadly that might at any time carry off the patient sufferer.

They covered the walls with grotesque representations of the royal family; they shouted out parodies of Bourbon songs; and there was not a hero of the old régime, from Hugh Capet down, whose virtues were not celebrated under the name of Napoleon.

As a special item of their musical program they sang a parody of Apple Blossom Time called It's Watermelon Time in Dixie.

He had, as Byron said in Sheridan's days of decay, done the best in all he undertook, written the best comedy, best opera, best farce; spoken the best parody, and made the best speech.

They wished to establish themselves, unquestioned and undisturbed, and did so; and I do not think we shall be far wrong if we take the original Young Turk programme about as seriously as we took the parody of a Parliament with which Abdul Hamid opened (as with a blessing) his atrocious reign.

As the flames rose, the Te Deum was sung, and a villager thundered out a parody in the Norman dialect of the hymn

33 Verbs to Use for the Word  parody