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    Here we have what no auditor could remember in the great model , I am sure—the four distinct states of feeling clearly put forth , not only in gesture , eye , and lip , but what is a more certain , safer , and truer exposition of them and the man ' s character , the voice showed , in its variety , that it had been struck into a natural adaptation of its tones by the several present thoughts and emotions ; these tones had all nature ' s appropriateness .

    First was the question put to a . friend in such a way as tinged it with a meaning that it was a friend ' s wish yielded to , rather than a knowledge desired ; then as . if conning the dose of words in his lesson , 'I pray , sir / and dashing them out of his mouth impatiently , as if too nauseous for endurance in ' Plague upon it , ' &c . taking the lesson up again , and relieving his palate of their odiousness by qualifying it with the angry scorn of his true nature , an abhorrence of baseness , fancied or real .

    And does any auditor forget his ' Kindly V There was a visible moral pain in uttering the word—a revolting , and a constrained keeping with'n , the feelings which his heart prompted him to lay bare . That * A match , sir , ' and what followed , the hand was put forth in the impulse of a thought , ' I have done ; enough with you ; ' not as if it were the adjunct in concluding a bargain , and it was so well fitted to that thought that no eye could have perceived in it a design to induce that contact of the citizen ' s palm , and its consequences . Equally beautiful was the hurrying , impatient monotone in which he ran over the words of his disagreeable lesson , as if sickening at them while he spoke— . ' Your voices , for your voices I have fought , ' &c . ; and many other passages which a&k for comment but must be denied it .

    From the commencement of the third act , the master-spirit—the close thought with which he had examined and studied—the depth and completeness of the plunge which he had made into the rnind , heart , passion , and being of Coriolanus , could no longer be questioned . Whatever thinking auditor doubted till then , hesitated not in accepting this Coriolanus as the true one , although it was so very different from the established model . I should lengthen this note far beyond the limits which can be granted to my observations , were I to show all the points of beauty and masses of difference in the first scene ; but one or two passages may be noticed , not for their difference , but for their power and beauty . The angry astonishment at the charges enumerated by Brutus , tinged with contempt of that Tribune and his motives in making the charges , in 1 Why this was known before /

    the reply to Not to them all , * ' Have you informed them since ?' was given in a suppressed but acute tone , and a dart of the eye , which both went directly to the crouching accuser ' s heart ; and that headlong hurrying of the words , in fear that his friends should stop him before he could give them all breath ; the quiet intenseness of resolute purpose in the voice , as if the sentiment should not be , could not be questioned , in Whoever gave that counsel to give forth the corn , ' &c . and the deep , internal boiling of rage in , Hence ! rotten thing , or I shall shake thy bones Out of thy garments !—

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    Macready ' s Coriolanus . 77

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/79/