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Does this savour of the Tory , of the aristocratic defender of vested abuses ? It is true that he anathematized a popular abuse ; but he does it upon sound radical principles , equall y applicable to all abuses ; and , whatever nuisance might have fallen in his way , he would have tried it by the same standard , without making question of its godfathers . A * venerable institution ' would be of no value in his eyes unless it were also a good institution . With a heavy heart he exclaims ,
' Rather than fool it so , Let the high office and the honour go To one that would do thus / Then suddenl y he seems to recollect the disappointment it would cause his mother , and he is again determined : * I am half through ; The one part suffer ed , the other will I do . Here come more voices , —' He seems half humorous in his scoffs , as if the ridiculous nature of the business had suddenly struck him in a new light . He greets the new comers :
• Your voices : for your voices I have fought ; Watch'd for your voices ; for your voices , bear Of wounds two dozen-odd ; battles thrice six I ' ve seen , —and heard of ; for your voices , have Done many things , some less , some more : your voices ; Indeed , I would be consul /
All this the citizens seem to have taken as a token of good fellowship ; and universal acclamation hails him as consul ,, when the tribunes enter with Menenius . His noble nature instantly chafes at the sight of the tribunes , whom he abhors , from an instinctive knowledge of their baseness ; and upon their telling him that he is elected ,, he fiercely inquires , May I then change these garments ?'
On receiving the assent of the tribunes , he departs with Menenius , and then the tribunes fall to work insidiously to stir up the people against him , exulting in the thought that the indignant spirit ' is warm at his heart . ' The fuller ' s comrade , whose importance has been mortified by the withdrawal of the patrician hand , is the first to cry out against him ; but the fuller manfull y speaks out his opinion , that Uoriolanus was sincere : No , 'tis his kind of speech : he did not mock us . ' But he has no firmness of mind ; and the arts of the tribunes , together with the clamour of the other citizens , Trho resolve to annul the election , alter his resolves * The election spirit stirs him , and when his comrade says ,
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Coriolanus no Arirtocrat . 19 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/39/
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