It was discussed, attacked, defended, eulogised, ridiculed.

It was praised with the most fulsome adulation; assailed with the most violent condemnation.

Editorials were written upon it.

Special articles, in literary pamphlets, dissected its rhetoric and prosody.
The phrases were quoted,--were used as texts for revolutionary sermons, reactionary speeches.

It was parodied; it was distorted so as to read as an advertisement for patented cereals and infants' foods.