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  • "Juvenalian" satire, both in matter and manner, is not a little remarkable.

    English Satires Various 1885

  • Granted, that essay is in the Juvenalian mode; the Horatian mode which includes everything from The Rape of the Lock to The Simpsons is less harsh.

    Terence Kealey’s Sexist “Lust” « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • The excellent David Leonhardt, also of the Times, wrote a column the same day as Dowd's Juvenalian juvenilia, which, judging by the headline, echoes her point.

    Billy Kimball: Are We Rome? Naaah. 2008

  • For Blaze, this was nearly Juvenalian wit, but John didn't even smile.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • Juvenalian imitation, but freer and bolder than the first.

    Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

  • Cleiveland and that of Pope, as between the diverse schools known as the "Horatian" and the "Juvenalian".

    English Satires Various 1885

  • _The Medal_ reverts to the type of the classic satire of the Juvenalian order.

    English Satires Various 1885

  • _Timon of Athens_, of all the works of Shakspeare, possesses most the character of satire: -- a laughing satire in the picture of the parasites and flatterers, and Juvenalian in the bitterness of Timon's imprecations on the ingratitude of a false world.

    Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806

  • Garrick’s Fribbleriad (1761) and of grotesquely overblown Juvenalian indignation in

    'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006

  • D. 1900, should overhear _my_ voice amongst the babblings that will then be troubling the atmosphere -- in that case it will hear me still reaffirming, with an indignation still gathering strength, and therefore approaching ever nearer and nearer to a Juvenalian power of versification, so that perhaps I shall then speak in rhymed couplets -- that all anecdotes pretending to be _smart_, but to a dead certainty if they pretend to be _epigrammatic_, are and must be lies.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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