These poems, particularly the two latter, are the sharpest lampoons in the language.
In national spirit and moral purpose it was unlike the personal lampoons of the Greek satirists.
They are like the lampoons of Archilochus and the early Greek Iambic writers, purely personal in their object.
But the original satura, which also was familiar to the Romans before they became acquainted with Greek literature, was somewhat different both from the Fescennine verses, and from the lampoons which arose out of them.
The lampoons on Piso and his favourites, Porcius and Socration, show that those who wronged his friends could rouse in him as generous indignation as those who wronged himself.
About one half of the shorter poems, and more than half of the epigrams, are to be classed among his personal lampoons or light satiric pieces.
His name as a lyric poet is most usually coupled with that of his friend Calvus; and a well-known passage of Tacitus[340] brings together his lampoons and those of Bibaculus as being 'referta contumeliis Caesarum.
All the while the walls of London are covered with lampoons representing me as a parricide ready to strike down Your Majesty to have your inheritance.
He had been known, during several years, as a small poet; and some of the most savage lampoons which were handed about the coffeehouses were imputed to him.
Shrewsbury produced ferocious lampoonswhich the Jacobites dropped every day in the coffeehouses.
In the Jacobite lampoons of that time, lampoons which, in virulence and malignity, far exceed any thing that our age has produced, she was not often mentioned with severity.
The lampoons on him which were hawked about the town were distinguished by an atrocity rare even in those days.
Some said that the lampoonsof the Opposition had driven the Earl from the field; some that he had taken office only in order to bring the war to a close, and had always meant to retire when that object had been accomplished.
To one or other of these statues, during the concealment of the night, are affixed those satires or lampoons which the authors wish should be dispersed about Rome without any danger to themselves.
When any lampoons or amusing bon-mots were current at Rome, they were usually called, from his shop, pasquinades.
Panegyrics and Lampoons Lyrical panegyrics and lampoonsbelonged to a later epoch.
I complain not of their lampoons and libels, though I have been the public mark for many years.
As a rule, however, Wolcot directed hislampoons against the King, whose foibles he most unmercifully laid bare.
There were scores of virile pamphleteers in the pay of Ministers and Oppositions, as well as a number of independent writers of lampoons on all sorts and conditions of men and things.
They who have patience to look into the lampoonswhich these worthies had published against Dryden, will, in reading his retort, be reminded of the combats between the giants and knights of romance.
One of the king's bailiffs called Birger was to blame for this; but the lampoons were made against both.
In the lampoons were the following lines:-- "The gallant Harald in the field Between his legs lets drop his shield; Into a pony he was changed.
The thing which annoys them is that you make lampoons about them.
You are mutinous and make lampoons about them, and they threaten to pitch you overboard.
The press, that mighty engine for good or evil, had been set to work to undermine the power of the coalition, and lampoons and satires on Fox and North had been printed daily and scattered throughout the country.
A thousandlampoons bear witness, that, during the reign of Venus, under the auspices of Charles II.
Harvey's opponents were much nimbler penmen, and could strike off these lampoons with all the facility of writers for the stage.
The lampoonsare printed in Jonson's works [but not in their entirety.
His name as a lyric poet is most usually coupled with that of his friend Calvus; and a well-known passage of Tacitus[5] brings together his lampoons and those of Bibaculus as being 'referta contumeliis Caesarum.
He bore with great moderation a virulent libel written against him by Aulus Caecinna, and the abusive lampoons of Pitholaus, most highly reflecting on his reputation.
Lampoons against the government were not uncommon even in the time of Augustus; and elegant panegyric on the emperor served to counteract their influence upon the minds of the people.
Many of these inhabited Grub Street, and their lampoons against Pope and others of their more successful rivals called out Pope's Dunciad, or epic of the dunces, by way of retaliation.
Rochester next patronized Crowne and Otway for a time, but soon gave them up, and contented himself with assailing Dryden more directly in such lampoons as we have quoted.
It is charged that he assisted the duchess in composing lampoons on the Duke of Orleans, then Prince Regent.
Pope revenged himself for her scorn in his worst and most unmanly fashion of innuendo; she, on her side, retorted with lampoons and satire as cruel.
For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.
The clever hits at living City functionaries, indicated by their initials and nicknames, the rough ridicule and the biting innuendo, were telling in their day, but the lampoons have perished with their objects.
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