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  • Satyre upon a Saxaphone by the most brilliant of the younger novelists.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • Satyre upon a Saxaphone by the most brilliant of the younger novelists.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • After whom followed _Iohn Lydgate_ the monke of Bury, & that nameles, who wrote the _Satyre_ called Piers Plowman, next him followed _Harding_ the Chronicler, then in king _Henry_ th'eight times

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • _Dramatick_ reprehensiue, & put in execution by the feate & dexteritie of mans body, to wit, the _Satyre_, old _Comedie_, new _Comedie_, and

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • They claim attention on various grounds: some are the works of well-known men, such as Anthony Munday and Warren Hastings; some are bitter political squibs -- such, for instance, as the "Satyre against the Scots," page 47; some, again, are exquisitely beautiful, as "The Dirge," page 53.

    Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry Edmund Goldsmid

  • Bvt because in those dayes when the Poets first taxed by _Satyre_ and

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • "Macchiavelli, der die Freiheit liebte, schrieb seinem Prinzen so, dass er alle rechtschaffenen Psychologen in Verlegenheit und in solche Verwirrung gebracht, dass sie gar nicht mehr wussten, was sie sprachen und sie behaupteten, Macchiavelli habe eine politische Satyre geschrieben."

    Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 Various

  • _How vice was afterward reproued by two other maner of poems, better reformed then the Satyre, whereof the first was Comedy, the second

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • _That which seemes Best is Worst, exprest in a Paraphrastical Transcript of Iuuenals tenth Satyre.

    Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

  • _Satyre_, & by that occasion was somwhat sharpe and bitter after the nature of the _Satyre_, openly & by expresse names taxing men more maliciously and impudently then became, so as they were enforced for feare of quarell & blame to disguise their players with strange apparell, and by colouring their faces and carying hatts & capps of diuerse fashions to make them selues lesse knowen.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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