Literature numbers many satirists among its most honoured names; and the best satires show intellect, education, and a keen appreciation of human nature.
But the works of the ancient satiristsare of interest mainly to scholars, and cannot be included in a collection destined for a popular audience.
It is not merely an embodiment of the ideas of the satirists who suggested it and the artist who drew it, but also of many a traditional and stereotyped symbol, bequeathed from generation to generation by artists dead and gone.
In both she is a very woman--not as conventional satirists and conventional encomiasts praise or rail at women, but as women are.
The virtue of temperance was taught by their philosophers in the most eloquent language; and the diatribes of their satirists are evidence that the Roman conscience was not wholly at rest in regard to the excesses which were prevalent.
Besides, most of our late satirists seem to lie under a sort of mistake, that because nettles have the prerogative to sting, therefore all other weeds must do so too.
I have observed some satirists to use the public much at the rate that pedants do a naughty boy ready horsed for discipline.
Preachers, economists, and satirists denounce the luxury and immodesty of the dress both of men and women, the gluttony and the drinking habits of the rich burghers and of the nobility of Germany.
It is true that the begging friars were always the butt of the satirists of the close of the fifteenth century.
In short, the medieval Jewish satirists were gifted with much of what a little time ago was foolishly styled "the new humor.
You find the Jewish satirists exhausting all their stores of drollery on the subject of rollicking drunkenness.
Contemporary satirists furnish a precise date when ancient things are on the turn and getting out of fashion; they are the first who, like hawks, descend on their quarry.
The satirists are the earliest recorders of manners, but, fugitive historians of fugitive objects, they only sport on the surface of things.
Or: "I have observed some satirists to use the term.
The science of jurisprudence was ably represented by various professors, but it became more and more involved and difficult, and frequently draws forth from the satirists abuse of its quibbling intricacies.
In this Lucilius first gained great renown, and even now has many admirers so wedded to him, as to prefer him not only to all other satirists but to all other poets.
Had the modern prose essay existed at Rome, it is probable the satiristswould have availed themselves of it.
In vain do emperors issue edicts for the suppression of foreign rites; in vain do courtly satirists or fierce declaimers complain that Rome will not be satisfied with ancestral beliefs and ancestral virtues.
But his most important work was his formation of the character of one of the three Roman satiristswhose works have come down to us.
This is analogous to the way in which the satirists use the names consecrated by Lucilius or Horace as types of a vice, and repeat the same symptoms ad nauseam, e.
Death appears at the most unexpected and inopportune moments, with that stern and ghastly reminder of the futility of human pleasures, successes, and pursuits, of which the most playful satirists have never been able to lose sight.
As a satirist in rhyme Marvell has shared the usual and not undeserved fate of almost all satirists of their age and fellow-men.
The satirists have said that, though not invariably (our present author contains cautions on that point) yet as a rule, if you take yourself with sufficient seriousness, mankind will follow suit.
During the period through which these writers flourished, Rome saw a considerable number of other satirists of the same class, whose works have perished.
The pasquils formed a body of satire which struck indiscriminately at everybody within its range, but satirists were now rising who took for their subjects special cases of the general disorder.
We must not overlook our great poet Chaucer, as one of the powerful satirists of this period.
In this respect the satirists of the Church went hand in hand with the pictorial caricaturists of the illuminated manuscripts, and of the sculptures with which we sometimes meet in contemporary architectural ornamentation.
Another of the celebrated satirists of the scholastic ages was named Alanus de Insulis, or Alan of Lille, because he is understood to have been born at Lille in Flanders.
Of the two other great satirists whose works are preserved, Juvenal was born about the year 40 of the Christian era, and Persius in 43.
One of the principal classes of the satirists of the middle ages, the minstrels, or jougleurs, were far from being unamenable to satire themselves.
Among the satirists who espoused the cause to which Murner was opposed, we must not overlook a man who represented in its strongest features, though in a rather debased form, the old spontaneous poetry of the middle ages.
The parti-coloured hose of the Plantagenet period and later called forth many strictures from the satirists and moralists, chiefly clerical, of the time.
But the most insistent of all the satirists was Philip Stubbes, who wrote his "Anatomy of Abuses" in the reign of Elizabeth.
This marked the commencement of those horned head-dresses which were speedily developed to such an extravagant degree, and so excited the wrath of the satirists of the time.
In the case of the Ionian satirists and elegists, and in that of the AEolian lyrists, the national peculiarities of the art resulted from national qualities in the artists.
It is noticeable that both of these satirists are Ionian.
He is certainly inferior to all these mighty satirists both in wit and passion, and also in definite purpose.
Disraeli, in truth, belongs to that very small group of real political satirists of whom Swift is the type.
A bon chat bon rat'--the fidus and audax satirists of the present times.
Have at ye all," we satirists give no quarter; Yet shall our mirth prove grateful as Bath water.
The satirists of the time saw this, and Margaret, besides encountering the small-shot of society ridicule, received now and then such a broadside as James Russell Lowell gave her in his "Fable for Critics.
These qualities make him the greatest of the satirists of Rome, if not of the world.
It is in satire alone that we find any trace of genuine moral earnestness and enthusiasm; and the reason for this is primarily that the satirists wrote under the influence of the one force that definitely and steadily made for righteousness.
The Romans were great satirists because they did so; the English are great satirists in so far as they do so likewise.
In society she was generally known as the Princess d'Este, and the bilious satirists of the Inns of Court used to speak of Sir Thomas as 'the Prince.
The majority of the ancient word pictures are distorted views on our subject by partisan writers, contemporary moralists on the one side, satirists on the other.
We are far from averring that no satirist can be a good man, but certainly most satiristshave either been very good or very bad men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satirists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
