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SQUIB

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 747 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SQUIB , supposed to be derived from the German word schieben, to push or shove forward with a sliding
movement
 , the name for a projected kind of firework that is flung out of a groove and breaks with a flash and a clatter. Hence, in the literary sense, a squib is a slight satirical composition put forth on an occasion; and it is intended that it should make a noise by its explosion, not by the possession of any permanent importance. Steele says, in the Tatler, that " squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are
call
 'd libellers, lampooners and pamphleteers," showing that, at the beginning of the 18th.
century
 , the man who composed the
satire
 , as well as the
satire
  itself, was called a squib Swift speaks of the rapidity with which these little literary fireworks flew about from place to place, and he himself was a proficient in the making of noisy squibs. Perhaps the best type of a squib in
English
  literature is Gray's Candidate, which was written and circulated among the electors in 1764, when Lord Sandwich was canvassing for the office of high-steward of the university of
Cambridge
 . The
object
  of this poem was, by ridicule and defamation, to injure Lord Sandwich's prospects of success. When once the election was over the verses served no further purpose, and they have survived simply in consequence of their fluent wit and of the reputation of the
great
  poet who composed them. (See also
LAMPOON
 .)


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