The occasion for mysatire was one which must be described as inevitable in the case of one eager to try his hand at imitations of Pope.
My first lisp--the first poem I ever wrote--of all the odd things in the world was a diminutive satire in the style of Pope.
A beautiful satire is contained in the account of the traitors--tradition, human wisdom, and man's invention.
Nothing can be more masterly than the satire contained in this trial.
To point this satire the more, a picture of the Prodigal Son hangs on the wall.
Just Between Themselves A vivacious satire on married life which is full of mirth of the quieter, chuckling variety.
How Leslie Loved Not only a buoyant love story but a penetrating satire on modern manners.
Yet 'tis a thousand pities so much Satire should be lost.
Why, truly, Satirehas ever been of wondrous use to reform Ill-manners.
And that the Satire may be sure to bite, } Kind Heav'n!
The first English writer who can be read with approbation is William Langland, the author of Piers Plowman's Vision, a severe satire upon the clergy.
These deserved nothing better, in the thirteenth century, than biting satire and indignant reproof, and the poets were willing enough to bestow both.
His genius showed itself in turning this method of a laborious lucidity into a peculiarly exasperating form of satire and controversy.
In Hood at his best the verbal neatness only gives to the satire or the scorn a ring of finality such as is given by rhyme.
The exquisitely penetrating political and social satire he afterwards wrote belongs to an age later than the Victorian.
A Vindication of Natural Society, a satire on the views of Bolingbroke, but so close was the imitation of that writer's style, and so grave the irony, that its point as a satire was largely missed.
He translated from the Latin of Manzolli The Zodiac of Life, a satire against the Papacy, and The Popish Kingdome by T.
Tam o' Shanter to the blistering satire of Holy Willie's Prayer and The Holy Fair.
In 1738 appeared London, a satire imitated from Juvenal which, pub.
Here he produced successfully Pasquin, a Dramatic Satire on the Times, and The Historical Register for 1736, in which Walpole was satirised.
He made clever adaptations of the classical satirists, wrote an ironical Satire against Virtue, and four severe satires against the Jesuits.
Pope, however, thought them "the best poetry and truest satire in the English language.
His first book was Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished.
It is curious to see how the expressions of the bitterest writer of English political satire to a great extent express the same ideas as the great French satirist of private life.
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities.
It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much, yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirised can join in the satire.
Then, satire boiling over into passion, she cried vehemently, "We are threshing empty ears.
The paper on 'Architecture in the United States' is from the pen of one who 'knows whereof he writes;' and he has not been sparing of deserved satire upon the sad and ridiculous mistakes of those among us who are miscalled architects.
Turn to his Parisian letters and see the union of wit and humor, of playful satire and nice observation which pervade them.
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
By satire kept in awe, shrink from ridicule, though not from law.
Satire lies about men of letters during their lives, and eulogy after their death.
In tragedy and satire I maintain, against some critics, that this age and the last have excelled the ancients; and I would instance in Shakespeare of the former, in Dorset of the latter.
There was little, if any, really good-natured satire underlying these cartoons; they were designed and executed vindictively, and their main object was to hurt.
The most potent pictorial satire has always been the gradual elaboration of some clever idea--the periodic reappearance of the same characters in slightly modified environment, like the successive chapters of a serial story.
Throughout the Jeffersonian period, national and local satire and burlesque flourished, atoning in quantity for what it lacked in wit and artistic skill.
The eteignoir was constantly used in satire directed against the priesthood, the most famous instance appearing in the Minerva in 1819.
Philipon and his companion Daumier have created a world of pleasant satire upon all the prevailing abuses of the day.
That pictorial satire may be made forceful without the sacrifice of dignity was long ago demonstrated by Tenniel's powerful work in the pages of Punch.
Their satire took the form of bitter personal attacks, and a very curious contest ensued between the government and the editorial staff of the Charivari.
Miss Gascoigne, always on the watch for affronts, turning sharply round, but there was not a shadow of satire in her friend's simplicity.
His satire was born largely of a transient stimulus, and was evanescent.
At all times his incomparable wit and satire has appealed rather to the cultured, and even the emotional quality of his fiction is frequently so profound and unusual as to be fully enjoyed only by the intellectually untrammelled.
He was also the author of the story of "Rasselas,"--that notable satire on discontent and the search after happiness.
Yet, with all his mirth, there is a vein of playful satire in his description of men and things.
Footnote 231: The curious satire in the works of Seneca, is the strongest remonstrance of profaned religion.
Footnote 55: See xvith epistle of the first book of Horace, the xiiith Satire of Juvenal, and the iid Satire of Persius: these popular discourses express the sentiment and language of the multitude.
Footnote 2: See Dacier on the sixth satire of the second book of Horace Cornel.
Spanheim supposes that the coin was struck by some of the enemies of Gallienus, and was designed as a severe satire on that effeminate prince.
Against such unworthy adversaries, Cicero condescended to employ the arms of reason and eloquence; but the satire of Lucian was a much more adequate, as well as more efficacious, weapon.
The whisper of book-leaves tempts me to suppose that he read several of the bitterest odes, very possibly a whole satire of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, that poet so fierce but withal so urbane.
The book, in fact, is a very clever satire on human nature, a satirewhich gains much charm and piquancy from its coming from the mouth of a masterful self-respecting hound.
He spoke highly of the duke, but with much satire of all else, and that incautiously, and evidently with an innate defiance of consequences, from a consciousness of secret powers to overawe their hurting him.
His satireis of that kindly quality that leaves no sting.
His book, which is a harsh satire on the vices of the smart set of Madrid, made an immediate sensation.
The Satireon "Flecno" makes the utmost of another joke we know of- -that of famine.
The celebrated Satire on Holland certainly makes the utmost of the fun to be easily found in the physical facts of the country whose people "with mad labour fished the land to shore.
Perhaps there is no age of English satire that does not give forth the sound of that laughter unknown to savages--that craven laughter.
He wrote Pindaric Odes; translated from the classics; and exercised his powers of satire till he could confidently to himself predict the force of that "hate to fools" which he afterward assumed as his principal characteristic.
One of his earliest favorite books was Homer; and at Twyford school he wrote a satire on the master, for which he was severely castigated.
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