| 1. | suppose a work of mere burlesque to be the primary effort o. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | Of tricks _or_ of magpies and of burlesque poems _or_ of starlings. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 3. | The popular ridicule of Puritanism in burlesque and doggerel is best exemplified in Butler's _Hudibras_. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 4. | A few odd lines are given here to show the character of the work, and to introduce the reader to the best known burlesque in our languag. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 5. | There the burlesque ends the hero takes to the open road, and Fielding forgets all about Pamela in telling the adventures of Joseph and his companion, Parson Adams. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 6. | Of all this burlesque and doggerel the most famous is Butler's _Hudibras_, a work to which we can trace many of the prejudices that still prevail against Puritanism. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 7. | Fielding's first novel, _Joseph Andrews_ , was inspired by the success of _Pamela_, and began as a burlesque of the false sentimentality and the conventional virtues of Richardson's heroine. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | In his early life he wrote poems and dramas, under the influence of Byron but his first notable work, _Pelham_ , one of the best of his novels, was a kind of burlesque on the Byronic type of gentleman. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 9. | You have burlesqued my person, grossly betrayed my confidence, and misused my hospitality. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |