I am proud of the compliment; yet I have varied from the mode prescribed: not because Roscommon has already given such a version; or because I think the satyrical hexameters of Horace less familiar than the irregular lambicks of Terence.
This is the only way I can account for his having sometimes carried his satyrical Strokes farther, than, I doubt, a true and laudable Satyrist would have thought justifiable.
He begins it thus, "When I find my Name in the Satyrical Works of this Poet," &c.
Sophoklês, over and above the satyrical dramas in his tetralogies.
I often apply this Rule to my self; and when I hear of a Satyrical Speech or Writing that is aimed at me, I examine my own Heart, whether I deserve it or not.
Some of our Authors indeed, when they would be more Satyricalthan ordinary, omit only the Vowels of a great Man's Name, and fall most unmercifully upon all the Consonants.
Your Gentleman of a Satyrical Vein is in the like Condition.
Yet his Pen was not so lushious in praising, but, when he listed, it was as bitter in railing, witness this his Satyrical Character of his aforesaid Antagonist.
Ending with a Satyrical Fable of the DOG and the OTTOR.
In the same year appeared "Satyrical Characters and Handsome Descriptions, in Letters.
Satyrical Essayes, Characters, and others, or accurate and quick Descriptions, fitted to the life of their Subiects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satyrical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
