Satanic School (The), a class of writers in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, who showed a scorn for all moral rules and the generally received dogmas of the Christian religion. The most eminent English writers of this school were Bulwer (afterwards Lord Lytton), Byron, Moore, and P. B. Shelley. Of French writers: Paul de Kock, Rousseau, George Sand, and Victor Hugo.
Satire (Father of), Archilŏchos of Paros (B.C. seventh century).
Satire (Father of French), Mathurin Regnier (1573-1613).
Satire (Father of Roman), Lucilius (B.C. 148-103).
Satiro-mastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet, a comedy by Thomas Dekker (1602). Ben Jonson, in 1601, had attacked Dekker in The Poetaster, where he calls himself “Horace,” and Dekker “Cris´pinus.” Next year (1602), Dekker replied with spirit to this attack, in a comedy entitled Satiro-mastix, where Jonson is called “Horace, junior.”
Saturday. To the following English sovereigns from the establishment of the Tudor dynasty, Saturday has proved a fatal day:—
Henry VII. died Saturday, April 21, 1509.
George II. died Saturday, October 27, 1760.
George III. died Saturday, January 29, 1820, but of his fifteen children only three died on a Saturday.
George IV. died Saturday, June 26, 1830, but the Princess Charlotte died on a Tuesday.