a satire against follies

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• satire — /sat uyeur/, n. 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. 3 …   Universalium

• Satire — This article is about the genre. For the mythological creature, see satyr. Satires redirects here. For other uses, see Satires (disambiguation). 1867 edition of Punch, a ground breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a great deal… …   Wikipedia

• satire — late 14c., work intended to ridicule vice or folly, from L. satira satire, poetic medley, earlier satura, in lanx satura mixed dish, dish filled with various kinds of fruit, lit. full dish, from fem. of satur sated (see SATURATE (Cf. saturate)).… …   Etymology dictionary

• Fingask Follies — The Fingask Follies is an annual musical revue; a show of follies conceived at Fingask Castle, Tayside, Scotland. ( Glyndebourne of the Carse ): When the King cam to Fingask: To see Sir David and his Lady,: A cod’s head weel made wi’ sauce: Took… …   Wikipedia

• English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …   Universalium

• Swift, Jonathan — born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire. died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English. He was a student at Dublin s Trinity College during the anti Catholic Revolution of 1688 in England. Irish Catholic reaction in… …   Universalium

• Bert Leston Taylor — (1866 1921) was an American columnist, humorist, poet, and author. Bert Leston Taylor became a journalist at seventeen, a librettist at twenty one, and a successfully published author at thirty five. At the height of his literary career, he was a …   Wikipedia

• Bernard of Cluny — For the archbishop of Toledo, see Bernard de Sedirac. Bernard of Cluny (or of Morlaix) was a Benedictine monk of the first half of the 12th century, a poet, satirist, and hymn writer, author of the famous verses De contemtu mundi, On Contempt for …   Wikipedia

• Bernard of Cluny — • A Benedictine monk of the first half of the twelfth century, poet, satirist, and hymn writer, author of On the Contempt of the World Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Bernard of Cluny     Bernard of Cluny …   Catholic encyclopedia

• comedy — comedial /keuh mee dee euhl/, adj. /kom i dee/, n., pl. comedies. 1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,… …   Universalium

• Augustan literature — is a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century, ending in the 1740s with the deaths of Pope and Swift (1744 and 1745, respectively). It is a literary… …   Wikipedia