Such sharoe would settle upon every page of Pope's satires and moral epistles, oftentimes upon every couplet, if any censor, armed with an adequate knowledge of the facts, were to prosecute the inquest.
The sort of service, however, expected from Pope in such a field, falls in better with the style of his satires and moral epistles than of a work professedly metaphysical.
A number of his most trenchant satires are directed against George III.
YOUNG, whose satiresgive the very anatomy of human foibles, was wholly governed by his housekeeper.
In his satires Horace is quick, round, and pleasant.
One of the earliest satires of Lucilius appears to have been a letter written to Scipio after the capture of Numantia; and several of his other satires were written in an epistolary form.
The parasites and spendthrifts, the misers and money-makers of Horace's Satires and Epistles, Maenius and Avidienus for instance, are among the most strongly marked of his personal sketches.
Many of his personal satires are directed against the licentiousness of the men and women with whom he quarrelled.
In this respect, as well as in his relation to his patrons, he reminds us of the tone of some of the Satires of Horace.
Fragments from one book of the Satires appear to be parts of a letter written by Lucilius to congratulate his friend on the capture of Numantia[5].
Expressions in his Satires and Epistles, and even in his Odes, show how closely he studied the language of Terence[17].
The Satires and Epistles of Horace showed, for the first time, how the didactic spirit could deal in poetry with the whole conduct and familiar experience of life.
In reading both the Satires and Epistles we are continually coming upon the vestiges of Lucilius, in some turn of expression, some personal or illustrative allusion.
The satires of Ennius were written in various metres, iambic, trochaic, and hexameter, and treated of various topics of personal and public interest.
The opening lines of the Prologue to the Satires give a vivacious description of the crowds of authors who rushed to "Twitnam," to obtain his patronage or countenance, in a day when editors were not the natural scapegoats of such aspirants.
Young's satires show abundance of wit, and one may not be able to say at a glance in what they are inferior to Pope.
The Essay on Man was on hand during the early part of this period, the epistles and satires representing a ramification from the same inquiry.
A selection from his satiresis to be found in Raynouard's collection of Provencal literature.
In the legends and allegories and satires represented in these pages the reader will find strange and fervent faiths as well as homely pictures of the world as it is.
The novels of former periods had interested by the creation of character and scenes; and there had been numerous satires prompted by personal pique.
Satires have at once exhibited and scourged social faults and national follies, and remained to after times as most essential materials for history.
His moral satires are aimed at the Church corruptions of the day, and yet are conservative; and are taken, says Berthelet, in his dedication of the Confessio to Henry VIII.
Luc de la Barre, blinded for his bold satires by the king (Henry I.
These Essays were comments, suggestions, strictures, and satires upon the age.
Along with these satires went many poems in praise of wine and riotous living.
Their satires were almost uniformly directed against the church, attacking even the pope.
Juvenal wrote sixteen satires in all, the most famous of which are the third and tenth, both imitated in modern times with great success by Dr.
In reading his satires one cannot help but feel the zest with which the author has composed them.
In the satires and epistles he never employs this conventional ornament.
Probably epodes and satires were the first fruits of his pen, though some scholars ascribe certain of the Odes (e.
A good deal of the obscurity of these Satires was forced upon the poet by the necessity of avoiding everything that could be twisted into treason.
The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Satires evince a kindly vein which we fail to find in the earlier ones.
To what periods of the life of Horace would you refer the composition of the Book of Epodes and the Books of Satires and Epistles?
And Lucilius addressed some of his satires to him, probably those on grammar, "Has res ad te scriptas Luci misimus Aeli;" so that he is a bond of connection between the two epochs.
The twelfth and fifteenth Satires are conspicuous examples of this.
All agree in considering the first book of the Satires to have been his earliest effort.
In the third and fourth Satires he complains of the universal ignorance of our true interests, the ridicule which the world heaps on philosophy, and the hap-hazard way in which men prepare for hazardous duties.
He was so when Horace wrote his first book of Satires (x.
Some have thought that in the eleventh and twelfth Satires they can find the man, and have been glad to figure him as genial, simple, and kind.
Many of his most stinging satires were written there, including his ferocious libel on the Irish parliament.
But he spent more of his time in writing political satires than in prayer or sermonizing.
He wrote several bitter satires on ecclesiastical matters, which would have caused his separation from the deanery under ordinary circumstances, but the archbishop as well as the civil authorities was afraid of his caustic pen.
Their success in this small game is one of the stereotyped satiresupon mankind.
Satires and Epistles of Horace Edited by Professor JOHN C.
We possess sixteen of his satiresdivided into five books.
In reading these Satires we all read our own minds and hearts.
The first nine satires present a wonderfully vivid picture of the seamy side of life at Rome at the end of the first century.
In matters of morality his satires have the same high aims.
His sermons, it was complained, were all satires on particular persons.
The Satires of Horace are far from being remarkable for poetical harmony, as he himself acknowledges.
Juvenal, who had begun his Satires several years before, continued to inveigh against the flagrant vices of the times; but the only author whose writings we have to notice in the present reign, is a poet of a different class.
We find from Quintilian, that Varro likewise composed satires in various kinds of verse.
The satires of Juvenal abound in philosophical apophthegms; and, where they are not sullied by obscene description, are supported with a uniform air of virtuous elevation.
Priscian, Quintilian, and other ancient writers, spear of Persius's satires as consisting of a book without any division.
As soon as his book ofSatires was published, all the world began to admire it, and were eager to buy it up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
