It's from Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark.
*smacks forehead* Of course! Arrgh, I can't believe I didn't remember that one instantly. Although I still think there was a very similar line in some other book, which is what made me confuse the two. "[blanked] [him/her/it] with [blank]s and with [blank]" is, I suppose, a fairly obvious formula. And, of course, Carroll was both an active satirist and an inspiration to generations of future writers.
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It's from Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark.
*smacks forehead*
Of course! Arrgh, I can't believe I didn't remember that one instantly. Although I still think there was a very similar line in some other book, which is what made me confuse the two. "[blanked] [him/her/it] with [blank]s and with [blank]" is, I suppose, a fairly obvious formula. And, of course, Carroll was both an active satirist and an inspiration to generations of future writers.