Satires, I, 1. Conington, 46.
Some modern echoes are heard. Says Byron,—
“Satiric rhyme first sprang from selfish spleen;
You doubt—see Dryden, Pope, St. Patrick’s Dean.”
Hints from Horace.
Taine applies his general theory to this instance:
“No wonder if in England a novelist writes satires. A gloomy and reflective man is impelled to it by his character; he is still further impelled by the surrounding manners.” Hist. of Eng. Lit. IV, 166.
In Shaw’s An Unsocial Socialist, one character says of another: “Besides, Gertrude despises everyone, even us. Or rather, she doesn’t despise anyone in particular, but is contemptuous by nature, just as you are stout.”
[12] Scourge of Villainy.
[13] Apology for Smectymnuus.