Satire in the Victorian novel

by Frances Theresa Russell

[5] Essay on Satire, by the Duke of Buckingham: Dryden’s Works, XV, 201.

[6] Young: Preface to the Seven Satires.

[7] Fielding: Historical Register: Dedication to the Public, III, 341.

[8] Fielding: Tom Jones: Dedication to George Lyttleton, VI, 5.

He also says, in The Covent Garden Journal: “Few men, I believe, do more admire the works of those great masters who have sent their satire (if I may use the expression) laughing into the world. Such are the great triumvirate, Lucian, Cervantes, and Swift.”

[9] Browning: Aristophanes’ Apology.

[10] Garnett, in the Enc. Brit. 9th edition.

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“Wolves use their teeth against you, bulls their horn;

Why, but that each is to the manner born?”