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They were formed upon the plan of Petrarch and Mantuan, being of a moral and fatirical nature, and containing but few llrokcs of rural de* fcription and bucolic imagery*
The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, Politics, and ... 1787
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Mdhohi or Afiatic plunderers, a fatirical poem, 410. 2s, 6d. x1ix« 229
A General Index to the Monthly Review: From Its Commencement, to the End of the Seventieth ... 1786
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His intention is to give a ludicrous and fatirical defcription of a late celebrated Naval Revieiv: but hit powers of execution and his intention are utterly at variance.
The Monthly Review; or, Litereary Journal: From January to June, inclusive. 1782
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Into this poem arc interwoven ievcral pa - ragraphs whidi had been before printed as a fragment, and among them the fatirical lines upon Addifon, of which the laft eouplet has been twice correfted.
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New if this be granted, we may cafily frppofe, that the frft hint of fatirical plays en the Roman rlage, was given by the Greeks.
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But, as Mr. fyarburton ingenioufly obfervM to me, the firft is a i beautiful aad fatirical expreffion.
The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected 1773
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It is very different, indeed, from the turn of ro - mances in general; and fome paiVagcs in it may, perhaps, fink too much into the low and vulgar ftrain; but this is commonly the cafe with this clafs of fatirical writings..
The Monthly Review 1772
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Warm and fincere in his friendfhip, he was from the fame principle, when not properly guided, equally fatirical in his refentmcnt.
Thoughts, Essays, and Maxims, Chiefly Religious and Political 1768
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11 The vapours of wint made the firft fatirical poets among ft the Romans j which, fays Pacier, we cannot better repreient, than by imagin - ing - a company of clowns on a holiday, dancing Jubbcr - lVj and upbraiding one another in extempore doggnJj with their defects and vices, and the ftories that wen told of them in bake-houfes and barbers - ftiope,
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Bleini (hes of others; hence his Book abounds with farcaflic Wit and fatirical Exprefllon.
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