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    satires


    1. satires of her borne mind rose to the surface in a rush


    2. of the important writers of his timeand composed interesting prose satires; his verse


    3. keen sense of wit and a lively imagination which made evenhis political satires interesting


    4. He that possesses her must keep her within bounds, not permitting her to break out in ribald satires or soulless sonnets


    5. If your son write satires reflecting on the honour of others, chide and correct him, and tear them up; but if he compose discourses in which he rebukes vice in general, in the style of Horace, and with elegance like his, commend him; for it is legitimate for a poet to write against envy and lash the envious in his verse, and the other vices too, provided he does not single out individuals; there are, however, poets who, for the sake of saying something spiteful, would run the risk of being banished to the coast of Pontus


    6. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even specimens of its amusing barbarism


    7. Scott: The Grand Style in the Satires of Juvenal


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