"Satyrical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Protectorship, I wrote freely and satyrical enough: he was now become Independant, and all the soldiery my friends; for when he was in Scotland, the day of one of their fights, a soldier stood with Anglicus in his hand; and as the several troops passed by him, 'Lo, ...
— William Lilly's History of His Life and Times - From the Year 1602 to 1681 • William Lilly
... declined in the hands of his insufficient successors. The poets and wits that came after him, wanted either the talents, the malignity, or the courage to follow his example, to imitate him in his daring personalities, or to adopt his merciless satyrical style. They followed his steps, only in his feeble, pitiful paths, and contented themselves with writing contemptible buffoon caricature parodies of the writings of the greatest men. The new comedy never could have raised its head, had the middle comedy continued ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 • Various |
