Alexander Pope Quotes about Satire
William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
"An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 307 (1735)