I am in no mood for compliments, satiricor otherwise.
The Revolution broke out when he was a young man, and he was moved to write satiricpoetry against the British.
Of course the satiric aim is different in the two poems.
Trumbull occupied the front rank of the satiric writers of that age.
He had already written at the age of thirteen a satiric poem, The Embargo, which had secured wide circulation in New England.
A bad poem, though interesting from the number of poets mentioned, is a satiric effort entitled The Examination.
No man has ever succeeded better than he in combining scholarship and vivacity in humorous and satiric verse.
By this I mean that the satiric outburst was not provoked by any sort of anger.
A dash of Italian merriment mingles with his enthusiasm; but he has none of Pulci's skepticalsatiric humor, none of Ariosto's all-pervasive irony.
From these brief notices it will be seen that terza rima during the Renaissance period was reserved for dissertational, didactic and satiric themes, the Capitoli of the burlesque poets being parodies of grave scholastic lucubrations.
Though they are commonly called Satires, they rather deserve the name of Epistles; for while a satiric element gives distinct flavor to each of the seven poems, this is subordinated to personal and familiar topics of correspondence.
It became an engine of terrorism, assumed satiric tone, and finally fell into the hands of didactic or merely fanciful poets.
In Carnival time it was the custom of the Florentines to walk the streets, masked and singingsatiric ballads.
Many satiric Latin poems bear his name at Eton, and he continued that turn afterwards at Cambridge.
Crow that they scape satiric rage, And get off in whole skins; How will dramatic fools rejoice!
Inheriting it from Lord Townshend, the father of caricaturists, he there pursued, with nearly equal ability, that turn forsatiric drawing.
Especially was this so in satiricand didactic poetry.
Hawthorne's humor was quiet and fine, like Irving's, but less genial and with a more satiric edge to it.
Holmes's favorite measure, in his longer poems, is the heroic couplet which Pope's example seems to have consecrated forever to satiric and didactic verse.
But behind his satiric mask he concealed the manliest tenderness, and a reverence for every thing in human nature that is good and true.
And that wakens the satiric spirit, so that an amusing interlude follows, summing up by implication much of the contrast between the English and German minds: .
There is no voice of so full a compass, booming out of tragic depths or shrilling satiric laughter or sweet with heroic romance; breathing essential poetry and yet rich with the comedy of life.
And this passage again, with its satiric flavour and dexterity of execution, we are content to enjoy in its apparent detachment, until we glimpse the link which unites it to the larger interest of the whole.
He has a gift of detachment; of cool and exact observation; and to this is joined a dexterity of satiric touch which serves indignation well.
When later he developed a turn for satiric verse at school he was requested to leave and went to Petrograd at the age of fifteen.
The "succeeding book" is the Moral Essays, which are almost entirely made up of satiric sketches.
The praise was intended for thesatiric sketches of men and manners which make up the Moral Essays.
The spleen and hate engendered wit by prompting satiric effusions; but wit is not in itself a virtue, and when Pope inserted it in his catalogue he must have been thinking of the moral ends it might subserve.
Akin to these hortatory epigrams, in their tone of settled melancholy, are some of the satiric and convivial.
No problems connected with the plays of Shakespeare are more difficult of solution than those offered by the satiric drama, in which matter from the story of Troy is handled in so enigmatic a fashion.
In England, if they did nothing else, they helped to stimulate a taste for realistic and satiric drama.
In 1702, before his prosecution, he published a satiric poem on the vices of the age, entitled "Reformation of Manners.
This work, as might be anticipated, was a satiric attack on the clergy of that day.
Yet Fielding had already, as we shall see, struck a wholesome note of satiric fun.
Humor, except in the satiric vein, is hardly more germane to the genius of Hawthorne than to that of Poe; its occasional exercise is seldom if ever happy.
As for Swift's chef d'oeuvre, it is a fairy-tale with a grimly realistic manner and a savage satiric intention.
Nor are satiric side-strokes in the realistic vein wanting--as in the drawing of such a high lady of quality as Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs--the very name sending our thoughts forward to Thackeray.
Here is a satiric character sketch where before was romance; for broad comedy in the older and larger sense it has no peer among modern novels.
The same tendency had its vogue on both the English and French stage--the Comedie larmoyante of the latter being vastly affected in London and receiving in the next generation the good-natured satiric shafts of Goldsmith.
For broad comedy presentation he is unsurpassed: as well as for satiric gravity of comment and illustration.
The mellifluous sentimentality, too, of the novelist seems to come to a climax in this book; justifying Taine's satiricremark that "these phrases should be accompanied by a mandolin.
In the second the satiric tendency of the Fabliaux and Renart is carried still further, with an admixture of not often apposite learning to a much greater extent.
There never was perhaps a greatly popular story but this simple plot was carried through it: mere satiric wit is addressed to a class of readers and thinkers quite different to those simple souls who laugh and weep over the novel.
Finally, Macklin's best work as a playwright was satiric enough and topical enough to be short-lived in popularity even in his own day.
The isolation of Brook Green, Islington, Battersea Fields, even Chelsea, when a little allowance has been made for satiric license, was a real thing.
Satiric references to the royal patronage of foreigners begin in Punch's first volume.
Swift gave certain satiric directions to a servant how to snuff a candle, and he added further injunctions, "Stick your candle in a bottle, a coffee-cup or a mustard pot.
The eighteenth century of the days of Hogarth, with his Gin Lane and Beer Street and with his satiric pencil reflecting the follies of his day is filled to repletion with eating and drinking, especially the latter.
Olympia had ended her search in the basket and fastened a glance of satiric good humor upon the culprit, which did not tend to relieve the awkwardness of the moment.
