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"Words can no longer stand by and let the media abuse them without retribution," said Satire's lawyer, Noah Webster VI.
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At Satire's glance Pride smooth'd his low'ring crest,
Poems (1828) Thomas Gent
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It is a retaliation on Satire's part for the intimate knowledge she had allowed us to gain of Horace and Persius through their works.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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If Satire's scourge could wake the slumbering hounds
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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If Satire's scourge could wake the slumbering hounds
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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A. D.Hope wrote in the preface to his Dunciad Minor published in 1970, '[Satire's] purpose is, by isolating and making it ridiculous, to put in a clear light the perversity of judgment and the lapses of sense from which the greatest wits are not immune and which may be concealed from themselves and others precisely because of their eminence in other respects.
unknown title 2009
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Pleased if from hence th 'unlearned may compr And rey'rence his and Satire's gen'rous end.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements ... 1812
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In Satire's praife, to a low untun'd ftrain, C In thee was moft impertinent and vain.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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Is this, (what ever fhall difclaim The Bard indignant) Satire's aim?
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