44 examples of satirised in sentences

Lamb first met William Godwin (1756-1836), the philosopher, probably through the instrumentality of their mutual friend Thomas Holcroft, not long after Gillray had satirised Lamb and Lloyd, in his plate in the first number of The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, August, 1798, as a frog and a toad, seated in the vicinity of Coleridge and Southey and reading together a volume labelled "Blank Verse, by Toad and Frog."

The principal Delia Cruscan poems were published in the British Album in 1789, and the collection was popular until Gifford's Baviad (followed by his Mæviad) appeared in 1791, and satirised its conceits so mercilessly that the school collapsed.

Swift satirised her in Corinna, a Ballad.

Porson with admirable humour satirised Hawkins for his attack on Barber.

The complaint has been very well satirised by one who suffered from it.

The satisfaction is in recognising which bits of media are being satirised at any given moment.

He went to France and Italy for two years; and on his return, in 1766, published two volumes of Travelsfull of querulous and captious remarksfor which Sterne satirised him, under the name of Smelfungus.

The ordinary three parts or courses (mensae) of a dinner,the gustatio or light preliminary course, the cena proper, with substantial dishes, and the dessert of pastry and fruit, could be amplified and extended to an unlimited extent by the skill of the slave-cooks brought from Greece and the East (see above, p. 209); the gourmand had appeared long before the age of Cicero and had been already satirised by Lucilius and Varro.

Vulgarity and ostentation, such as Horace satirised, were doubtless too often to be met with.

The "Spanish Friar" was often objected to the author by his opponents, after he had embraced the religion there satirised.

But the revival of the "Spanish Friar" could afford but little gratification to the author, whose newly-adopted religion is so severely satirised in the person of Father Dominic.

"God," he satirised, "who'd ever imagined you were the superstitious sort!

GEORGE I, Brett, Miss, i. 174, n. 2; burnt two wills made in favour of his son, ii. 342, n. 1; death, his, ii. 342, n. 1; knew nothing, ii. 342; Oxford, sends a troop of horse to, i. 281, n. i; Shebbeare, satirised by, iii. 15, n. 3; will, his, destroyed by George II, ii. 342; iv.

406, n. 1; Porson, satirised by, ii. 57, n. 5; iv. 370, n. 5, 406, n. 1; 'rigmarole,' his, i. 351, n. 1; Thrale's, Mrs., second marriage, iv. 339; unclubable, i. 27, n. 2, 480, n. 1; iv. 254, n. 2. HAWKINS, Miss, 'Boswell, Mr. James,' i. 190, n. 4; Burke's estimate of his son, iv. 219, n. 3; Hawkins's attack on the Essex Head Club, iv.

177; laugh, did not, ii. 378, n. 2; Letter to Tooke the Printer, ii. 319, n. 1; Lines on Censure, ii. 61, n. 4; low life, love of, v. 307, n. 3; Manley, Mrs., satirised in Corinna, iv.

WILLIAM III, Dodwell, Henry, will not persecute, v. 437, n. 3; Irish, not the lawful sovereign of the, ii. 255; Johnson's Dictionary, in, i. 295, n. 1; resplendent qualities, his, ii. 341, n. 4; Revolution Society, commemorated by the, iv. 40, n. 4; Shebbeare, satirised by, ii. 112, n. 3; iii. 15, n. 3; torture in Scotland, legal in his reign, i. 467, n. 1; 'worthless scoundrel,' ii.

I am sure to please nobody; I am satirised, criticised, libelled, hissed; yet I continue to do my best.

AYLMER, JOHN, tutor to Lady Jane Grey, bishop of London, a highly arbitrary man, and a friend to neither Papist nor Puritan; he is satirised by Spenser in the "Shepherd's Calendar" (1521-1594).

BALIOL, JOHN DE, son of the following; laid claim to the Scottish crown on the death of the Maid of Norway in 1290; was supported by Edward I., and did homage to him for his kingdom, but rebelled, and was forced publicly to resign the crown; died in 1314 in Normandy, after spending some three years in the Tower; satirised by the Scotch, in their stinging humorous style, as King Toom Tabard, i. e. Empty King Cloak.

"Contarini Fleming," "Coningsby," "Tancred," "Lothair," and "Endymion" are the most important of a brilliant and witty series, in which many prominent personages are represented and satirised under thin disguises.

MUSÆUS, JOHN AUGUST, German author, born at Jena, famous as the author of German Volksmärchen, three of which, "Dumb Love," "Libussa," and "Melechsala," were translated in the volumes of "German Romance" by Thomas Carlyle; he parodied Richardson's "Sir Charles Grandison" and satirised Lavater's "Physiognomical Travels" (1735-1787).

NÆVIUS, CNEIUS, one of the earliest Roman poets, born in Campania; wrote dramas, and an epic poem on the first Punic War, in which he had served; satirised the aristocracy, and was obliged to leave Rome, where he had spent thirty years of his life; died at Utica (265-204 B.C.).

PELHAM, a fashionable novel by Bulwer Lytton, severely satirised by Carlyle in "Sartor" in the chapter on "Dandies" as the elect of books of this class.

They satirised political and religious opponents, preached crusades, sang funeral laments upon the death of famous patrons, and the support of their poetical powers was often in demand by princes and nobles involved in a struggle.

The point is that Dante in the Purgatorio represents Sordello as showing to Virgil the souls of those who, while singing Salve Regina, ask to be pardoned for their neglect of duty and among them appear the rulers whom Sordello had satirised in his sirventes.

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