My lampoon is cried up to the skies; but nobody suspects me for it, except Sir Andrew Fountaine: at least they say nothing of it to me.
He had, when a lad at the plough, an eloquent word and an inspired song for every fair face that smiled on him, and a sharp sarcasm or a fierce lampoon for every rustic who thwarted or contradicted him.
The heroine Of this rough lampoon was Mrs. Riddel of Woodleigh Park: a lady young and gay, much of a wit, and something of a poetess, and till the hour of his death the friend of Burns himself.
Swift ten years later, wrote a lampoon on Cutts, so dull and so nauseously scurrilous that Ward or Gildon would have been ashamed of it, entitled the Description of a Salamander.
There is a bitter lampoon on Lady Marlborough of the same date, entitled The Universal Health, a true Union to the Queen and Princess.
It is partly a social satire, partly a professional lampoon on the current methods of learning and teaching law, partly a political diatribe on the alterations introduced into provincial and national life and polity under Louis XI.
Then, still in the same prolific year, Moliere returned to social satire in Les Facheux, an audacious lampoon on the forms of fashionable boredom common among the courtiers of the time.
The well-known lampoon of Gray may serve as a specimen of the feeling of the country.
The most spirited lines, perhaps, that he ever wrote are to be found in a bitter lampoon on Louis and Madame de Pompadour, which he composed at this time, and sent to Voltaire.
He published a lampoon on Aaron Hill; he was taxed with it; and he lied and equivocated.
He published a still fouler lampoon on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; he was taxed with it; and he lied with more than usual effrontery and vehemence.
One bookseller sent to the palace a copy of the most stinging lampoon that perhaps was ever written in the world, the Memoirs of Voltaire, published by Beaumarchais, and asked for his Majesty's orders.
He published a lampoon on the Duke of Chandos; he was taxed with it; and he lied and equivocated.
If he had written a lampoon on Dennis, such as that on Atticus or that on Sporus, the old grumbler would have been crushed.
Ka'b was angry at this, and composed a lampoon on his brother, on the Prophet, and on their new religion.
Others assert that Ismail bin Abu Sehl administered a poisonous potion to Abu Nuwas, because he had composed a lampoon against him; but its operation was so slow that he died only four months after he had drunk it.
You lie in your throat; there is no one dares make a lampoon about Arne of Guldvik.
The sailors were very angry and said he should not lampoon Haflidi for nothing.
Why should a lampoon hurt us more than it does you?
Footnote a: He writ a vileLampoon on Mr. Addison, and then in a Preface owns, he deserves Respect from every Lover of Learning.
The Frau von Pfaffenrath complained of this lampoon to the sovereign at Frankfort, and afterwards began a course of proceedings against the Frau Landjaegermeisterin which even then was considered harsh and cruel.
Footnote 600: In a contemporary lampoon are these lines: "Oh, happy couple!
No more mendacious, more malignant or more impious lampoon was ever penned.
Footnote 796: I am not aware that thislampoon has ever been printed.
I found the lampoonon my table this morning, among my letters.
The lampoon denounced him as the persecutor of the brides of the Lord, and the enemy of the church.
I commission you to have the lampoon reprinted and to expose it for sale in the bookstores at six kreutzers a copy, the proceeds to be given to the poor.
In a word, that former sort of satire which is known in England by the name of lampoon is a dangerous sort of weapon, and for the most part unlawful.
And may you ever have the luck, To rhyme almost as ill as Duck; And though you never learnt to scan verse, Come out with some lampoonon D'Anvers.
Pope wrote a lampoonabout the same age as Cowley these romantic narratives; and we have seen a pretty good copy of verses on Napoleon, written at the age of seven, by one of the most distinguished rising poets of our own day.
Is it not rather a disgrace, and a lasting lampoon upon American freedom, to tolerate this violation of the first principles of reciprocal rights?
Neither Charles the Second at the hands of Marvell, nor George the Fourth at the hands of Moore, received anything like the steady fire of lampoonwhich Wolcot for years poured upon the most harmless and respectable of English monarchs.
