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Definition of Lampoons
1. lampoon [v] - See also: lampoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lampoons
Literary usage of Lampoons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts,: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"Refutation of Cromwell having teen a Brewer—lampoons on the Subject •—His early
Profligacy—He is entered at Sydney College, Cambridge —Removal to the Inns ..."
2. Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1879)
"There are only two reasons for which we may be permitted to write lampoons ; and
I will not promise that they can always justify us. The first is revenge, ..."
3. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"CHAPTER XXII He is insulted by his Tutor, whom he lampoons— Makes a considerable
Progress in polite Literature ; and, in an Excursion to Windsor, ..."
4. The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: Collected and Authenticated, with Those of by Walter Raleigh, Henry Wotton (1892)
"SPECIMENS OF lampoons ON RALEIGH. 1. " Water thy plants with grace divine, And
hope to live for aye; Then to thy Saviour Christ incline; ..."
5. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... Moore's individual Grievance—His Course and Views in this Country—His Presentation
to the President—His lampoons on the President—Anecdote—Jefferson and ..."
6. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1880)
"To the end lampoons of his life but slight solicitation was needed to nius.
draw from him the story of the high doings which he witnessed ' in the times of ..."
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