Its conduct so roused Swift that his indignation found expression in one of his bitterest and most terrible poetical satires"The Legion Club"a satire so bitter and so scathing that reading it now, after the lapse of more than a century and a half, one shudders at its invective"a blasting flood of filth and vitriol, out of some hellish fountain," Mr. Churton Collins calls it.

Lord Macaulay (a very typical Englishman, romantic, prejudiced, poetical), Lord Macaulay said that he would not lift his hand to get rid of an anomaly that was not also a grievance.