"Mr. Alexander Pope," says he, "before he had been four months at this school, or was able to construe Tully's Offices, employed his muse in Satirizing his master.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
Arrived at Mourzuk at about 4 P.M. I here thought of a squib which had been published in a rival paper at Malta, representing me as "The Consul of the Blacks at Mourzuk" in allusion to and Satirizing my anti-slavery propensities.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
His work, however, has been so little understood, as to be pronounced a mere work of humour, Satirizing the follies of the times, both in politics and morals, and giving whimsical views of human nature.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving