"Lampooner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seems to have been no uncommon hour for the Kit-Kat to break up, and a Tory lampooner says that at this club the youth of ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... sensitive, and, brandishing a tomahawk, always himself shrank from a scratch. This was shown some years afterwards by his violent assault on Mr. Gifford, with a bludgeon, in a bookseller's shop, because the author of the "Baviad and Maeviad" had presumed to castigate the great lampooner of the age. In the present instance, the furious Wolcot leapt to the rash conclusion, that the author of the satire was no less a personage than Mr. Hayley, and he assailed the elegant author of the "Triumphs of Temper" in a virulent pasquinade. ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli |
