Juvenal was a satirist with a moral purpose; the Spaniard Martial, contemporary, was a satirist without one.
In short, while he was, with his friend Erasmus, a satirist of mediæval abuses, few would now deny that Protestantism would be too narrow rather than too broad for him.
The English who defied the law were better off than the French; a French satirist would probably have retorted that it was the English who obeyed the law who were worse off than the French.
Such a company of envious dames and damsels cannot be found among the persons of the satirist Thackeray.
The position of the satirist is oftentimes one which he would not have chosen, had the election been left to himself.
The danger of the satirist is, that continual use may deaden his sensibility to the force of language.
To the plebeians, whose folly is certainly sufficiently conspicuous already, the original old satirist Menenius is added by way of abundance.
We wonder," we continued, speculatively, "why we always suspect the society satirist of suffering from a social snub?
Those devices of the satirist belonged to the sentimentalist mood of the Thackerayan epoch.
Our satirist seemed to have lost something of his gayety.
In her minor fashion she was a satirist of the Pope school.
It was Mary Astell the satirist rather than Mary Astell the defender of learned women who awakened his spleen.
But the Dominicans would not give the satiristof their illustrious order a cup of water.
Yet the malignity of the most malignant satiristcould scarcely cut deeper than his thoughtless loquacity.
Those 15 small critics who are always desirous to lower established reputations ran about proclaiming that the anonymous satirist was superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature.
As a satirist Pope, though he did not hit so hard as Dryden, struck more deftly and probed deeper.
And as humorist and satirist he had a natural tendency to attack power,--to play Pasquin against the world's Pope.
Anger lies close by this point in all of us; and that the satirist evoked in another way.
After all, I thought, our satirist has just gone far enough into his neighbours to find that the outside is false, without caring to go farther and discover what is really true.
This was my first thought; but my second was not like unto it, and I saw that our satirist was wise, wise in his generation, like the unjust steward.
Lucilius, the first satirist of the Romans, who wrote long before Horace.
Here we have Dacier making out that Ennius was the first satirist in that way of writing, which was of his invention; that is, satire abstracted from the stage, and new modelled into papers of verses on several subjects.
The author is a humorist and a satirist of a very high order.
Thus its use in a short time became popular all over Europe and gave unlimited scope for the satirist and dramatist to ridicule the habit.
The humorist and satirist lost no opportunity of deriding the new fashion and its followers.
Were we to maintain that the pagan satirist was referring to the Apostle John, we might be able to show almost as many points of resemblance.
James Russell Lowell was the satirist of the abolition movement.
Archilochus could not have been called a satirist in the correct sense of the word.
A satirist is always to be suspected, who to make vice odious dwells upon all its acts and minutest circumstances with a sort of relish and retrospective fondness.
There was much in the character of thissatirist to raise him in the estimation of right-minded men.
Those small critics who are always desirous to lower established reputations ran about proclaiming that the anonymous satirist was superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature.
