Lucian himself, in The Angler, declares it his business to hate quacks, jugglery, lies, and conceit.
[47] Essay on Comedy.
[48] Laughter, 174.
[49] Byron as a Satirist, 180.
[50] Political Satire in English Poetry, 240.
In his Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature, Wendell contributes another link to the chain of evidence:
“Sincere or not, satire is essentially a kind of writing which pretends to unmask pretense.”
[51] Hazlett, in his essay on Wit and Humour, remarks that “it has appeared that the detection and exposure of difference, particularly where this implies nice and subtle observation, as in discriminating between pretence and practice, between appearance and reality, is common to wit and satire with judgment and reasoning.”
[52] Meredith characterises the chase of Folly by the Comic Spirit as conducted “with the springing delight of hawk over heron, hound after fox.”
[53] Satires: I, IV, 78 ff.