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"Philistine" refers to the middle classes, narrow-minded and self-satisfied people, according to Arnold, whom he satirizes with the idea of opening their minds to new ideas. "Hebraism" is Arnold's term for moral education.
Taylor, the Water Poet, the inveterate opponent of the introduction of coaches, thus satirizes the one in which he was forced to take his place as a passenger: "It wears two boots and no spurs, sometimes having two pairs of legs in one boot; and oftentimes against nature most preposterously it makes fair ladies wear the boot.
In Arms and the Man, he satirizes the romantic admiration for the soldier's calling; in The Doctor's Dilemma , he attacks the professional man; in Widowers' Houses , he assails the rich property holder with his high rents on poor people's houses: and in Man and Superman , he dissects love and home until the sentiment is entirely taken out of them.
As he thus soliloquized he heard a shrilling sort of squeak; and a showman stationed before his window the stage on which Punch satirizes the laws and moralities of the world, "kills the beadle and defies the devil." KENELM turned from the sight of Punch and Punch's friend the cur, as his servant, entering, said a person from the country, who would not give his name, asked to see him.
Works which treat upon man in his relation to society, can only be strictly applicable so long as that relation to society treated upon continues. For instance, the play which satirizes a particular class, however deep its reflections and accurate its knowledge upon the subject satirized, must necessarily be obsolete when the class itself has become so.
Affecting Case of the cruelty of one Slave to another, and compared to the Jews of Morocco. Chorus Singing of the Slaves. Mode in which Ostriches are Hunted. Arrival of Senna and Ivory from Aheer. Christians are not Liars. Farewell Visit from Jabour. Quick Route to Timbuctoo from Ghat. Kandarka turns Comedian, and satirizes the Touaricks of Ghat. Mercantile Transactions of the Governor.
In 1780 he was elected an Associate; in the following year he arrived at the full honours of academicianship. Peter Pindar, in his 'Lyrical Odes to the Royal Academicians for 1782, finds a place for De Loutherbourg. Having denounced the unlikeness of Mason Chamberlin's portraits, he satirizes the style of art of the landscape painter:
Subtile beauties puzzle him; the titles of the poems, for instance, giving by delicate allusion the key-note of each, as "Astraea," "Mithridates," "Hamatreya," and "Étienne de la Boéce," seem to him the work of "mere caprice"; he pronounces the poem of "Monadnoc" "poor and weak"; he condemns and satirizes the "Wood-notes," and thinks that a pine-tree which should talk like Mr.
With a generous hatred of stupidity, he flies full tilt at the pedantic education of the monasteries, and asserts the highest ideals of science and humanity. With an equal loathing of asceticism, he satirizes the monks themselves, and sketches out, in his description of the Abbey of Theleme, a glowing vision of the Utopian convent.
Taylor, the Water Poet, the inveterate opponent of the introduction of coaches, thus satirizes the one in which he was forced to take his place as a passenger: "It wears two boots and no spurs, sometimes having two pairs of legs in one boot; and oftentimes against nature most preposterously it makes fair ladies wear the boot.
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