pasquinade

• And the little pasquinade is so curious, and will fill a gap in that fine collection so nicely! —  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
• In the first number of Mr Blackwood's new series appeared the celebrated "Chaldee MS.," a humorous pasquinade, chiefly directed against Pringle and his literary friend Cleghorn, and which, on account of its evident personalities, was afterwards cancelled Besides conducting Constable's magazine, Pringle undertook the editorship of The Star_, a bi-weekly newspaper; but he was led soon to renounce both these literary appointments. —  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
• It was the age of England's lethargy After the defeat of Culloden, satire languished for a while, to revive again during the ministry of the Earl of Bute, when everything Scots came in for condemnation, and when Smollett and John Wilkes belaboured each other in the Briton and the North Briton_, in pamphlet, pasquinade, and parody, until at last Lord Bute withdrew from the contest in disgust, and suspended the organ over which the author of Roderick Random presided. —  English Satires
• Have you never heard the story of how the king was riding by, where the people were collected at the corner of a street, stretching out their necks to read a pasquinade which had been hung on the wall, and was directed against the king himself? —  The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel
• The danger attending open attacks forces them to confine their satire within epigram; and thus pasquinade is but the offspring of hypocrisy, the only resource of wits who are obliged to be grave on so many absurdities in religion, and respectful to so many upstarts in purple." —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860

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