But he was more famous for his satire than for his sermons or his poetry.

For his son Horace she had equal dislike, and he returned her hatred with malignant satire.

His satire has none of Swift's bitterness, but is subtle as that of Chaucer, and good-natured as that of Steele.

Both prose and poetry were too frequently satiric, and satire does not tend to produce a high type of literature.

2. How do you explain the fact that satire was largely used in both prose and poetry?

What is the chief object of satire? of literature?

A severe criticism of the volume in the Edinburgh Review wounded Byron's vanity, and threw him into a violent passion, the result of which was the now famous satire called English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which not only his enemies, but also Scott, Wordsworth, and nearly all the literary men of his day, were satirized in heroic couplets after the manner of Pope's Dunciad.

The figure which is here cut by St. John gives this remarkable satire a most remarkable close.

[Footnote 14: Readers need not have the points of this exquisite satire pointed out to them.

LONDON; A POEM: IN IMITATION OF THE THIRD SATIRE OF JUVENAL WRITTEN IN 1738.

And, tir'd, like me, with follies and with crimes, In angry numbers warn'st succeeding times; Then shall thy friend, nor thou refuse his aid, Still foe to vice, forsake his Cambrian shade; In virtue's cause, once more, exert his rage, Thy satire point, and animate thy page.

THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL.

This, therefore, we have to trust to, that decent, lively, and reflecting criticism, teaching men not to abuse books, but to read and to judge them, will have the effect of novelty upon a public wearied with universal efforts at blackguard and indiscriminating satire.

Previously, however, she had at least once attempted to write a political satire elaborately disguised as a romance.

That Walpole not only perceived, but actively resented the affront, we may infer, though evidence is lacking, from the six years of silence that followed the publication of the satire.

One is almost forced to believe that Savage's well-wisher, the writer of the little satire, "To the Ingenious Riverius, on his writing in the Praise of Friendship," was none other than Eliza herself.

That the poet's opinion of her remained unchanged by Mrs. Haywood's vituperation may be inferred from some lines in her praise in a satire called "The Authors of the Town," printed soon after the publication of "Memoirs of a Certain Island.

Specific delineation was necessary to make effective the satire, and though the presence of the "key" made broad caricature possible, since each picture was labeled, yet the writers of scandal novels usually drew their portraits with an amount of detail foreign to the method of the romancers.

But satire and libel, though necessitating detailed description, did not, like burlesque or parody, lead to the creation of character.

Mrs. Ben [sic]"; and Pope himself pilloried the offender to all time in his greatest satire.

The lines on Eliza, which still remain the coarsest in the satire, were in the original "Dunciad" even more brutal.

In 1729 the place of the abused Corinna was given to Mrs. Centlivre, then five years dead, in retaliation for a verse satire called "The Catholic Poet, or Protestant Barnaby's Sorrowful Lamentation: a Ballad about Homer's Iliad," (1715).

" shows that the two victims of Pope's most bitter satire felt a sort of companionship in misfortune.

As a matter of fact Mrs. Haywood's most successful and popular writings were produced after the publication of that poem, and that too at a period when Pope's predominance was far higher than it was at the time the satire itself appeared.

Though the novel exhibits some pictures of life which at the time were considered natural, and some bits of satire rather extravagant than striking, its appearance was a tacit admission of the failing of the author's powers.

He left the door open, to have light to do his work by, but Marcia closed it, clinging to the gilded satyr's head that served for knob with both hands, her lips drawn tight against her teeth, her whole face tortured with anticipation.

How like a satyr he looked while he was talking to me about their being slaves.

Libertine N. libertine; voluptuary &c 954.1; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell^, fast man; intrigant^, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard^, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard^; chartered libertine.

merman, mermaid, merfolk^; siren; satyr, faun; manito^, manitou, manitu. possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession; insanity &c 503.

His bus'ness is t' inveigh and flatter, Like parcel parasite and satyr.

Euphormio Satyr.

Euphormio Satyr.

A Satyr or a Libel on one of the common Stamp, never meets with that Reception and Approbation among its Readers, as what is aimed at a Person whose Merit places him upon an Eminence, and gives him a more conspicuous Figure among Men.

We have sects in religion: but the only thing sublime or ridiculous in that way is Mr. Irving, the Caledonian preacher, who "comes like a satyr staring from the woods, and yet speaks like an orator!"

THE MAN AND THE SATYR

A Man and a Satyr became friends, and determined to live together.

All went well for a while, until one day in winter-time the Satyr saw the Man blowing on his hands.

"Why do you do that?" asked the Satyr.

The Satyr got up from the table.

Sir Richard Blackmore and the wits: a study of "Commendatory verses on the author of the two Arthurs and the Satyr against wit" (1700)

Simonides, a Poet famous in his Generation, is, I think, Author of the oldest Satyr that is now extant; and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

It has likewise, upon this Account, been frequently resented as a very great Slight, to leave any Gentleman out of a Lampoon or Satyr, who has as much Right to be there as his Neighbour, because it supposes the Person not eminent enough to be taken notice of.

Pray please to inform them again, That to speak what they know is shocking, proceeds from ill Nature, and a Sterility of Brain; especially when the Subject will not admit of Raillery, and their Discourse has no Pretension to Satyr but what is in their Design to disoblige.

I cannot but look upon the finest Strokes of Satyr which are aimed at particular Persons, and which are supported even with the Appearances of Truth, to be the Marks of an evil Mind, and highly Criminal in themselves.

Our Satyr is nothing but Ribaldry, and Billingsgate.

It seems originally designed as a Satyr upon the Rich, though, in some Parts of it, 'tis like the foregoing Discourse, a kind of Comparison between Wealth and Poverty.

This panegyrical Satyr on themselves certainly is worthy of your Animadversion.

Contrast the radiance of the dawn in which the Satyr, the emblem of strong and joyous Nature, is first seen: C'était l'heure où sortaient les chevaux du soleil; Le ciel tout frémissant du glorieux réveil, Ouvrant les deux battants de sa porte sonore, Blancs, ils apparaissaient formidables d'aurore; Derrière eux, comme un orbe effrayant, couvert d'yeux, Éclatait la rondeur du char radieux * *

The Curtain is drawn, Clorin appears sitting in the Cabin, Amoret sitting on the one side of her, Alexis and Cloe on the other, the Satyr standing by.

But he fared even worse than before; for Hother dealt him a deadly wound with a magic sword, which he had received from Miming, the Satyr of the woods; and after lingering three days in pain Balder died of his hurt and was buried with royal honours in a barrow.