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    2 2 THE TOMAHAWK. Januaky iS, 1868.

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    ON SOME LINES BY THE LAUREATE.

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    that once If the the as inverse ad give ...

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    A HISS IN TIME.

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    The re-action has come at last over the ...

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    2 2 The Tomahawk. Januaky Is, 1868.

    2 2 THE TOMAHAWK . Januaky iS , 1868 .

    On Some Lines By The Laureate.

    ON SOME LINES BY THE LAUREATE .

    That Once If The The As Inverse Ad Give ...

    that once If the the as inverse ad give age him is is admissible still a bad more name that certai , you there n in may this is not as our well a snobbish shade hang of a father dog doubt at - land . a week There of seems each other to be two a Laureate publications mania have cropp prevailed ing up , and on within Alfred the each Great case the to supp contribution ly them with is little copy more in the than shape " a copy of verses of verses . In /' Of + T-1 CI fivof « TT- >» A / i /^ + Ji-v ^ }> - < -. VU {< VU O n ^ naorarl IJ 11 \ J . 1 i :-i i-i Ul /~ lr > s \ f 7 lAS /' irsf * . v . ? . W <^

    have put - > - * s m . , thoug ^ little lllOL h to the say 11 versification V- . The i ^ tlli-X- idea was IXXV was -II . anything . not \* C . new \^ but , but smooth p icturesquel r r , and ' y the y genius anything but obtrusive . Of course " The Victim" was reproduced or pseudo-literary in almost , was asking the dail everyone y prints , else and whether everyone they , literary had seen Now Tennyson the new ' s series last poem of O ? . ice a Week rushes into the field with more copy by the Laureate " hot and hot , " with the elegant title imagine " On between a Spiteful the first letter and . " second Six stanzas cups , of written tea at , one breakfast might , under the influence of a bad head-ache after a Christmas dinner the and recei the pt hottest of a long of . - accompanying standing bill from coppers an irate ; and tailor suggested , who had by more Jtiear taste for notes than strophes .

    trie indignant bard : — • Here And it with is here it , a the spiteful close letter of the ; year , My For fam himself e in song has has done done much him b much etter . , " wrong , true Does Jack not ami this Gill remind ring us ? of Here childhood is poetry ' s song my ? masters Has it not ! The the head poetry -ache of the has nursery brought vanity ymers with . " a M rush y fame to the in front song . S" We The are beginning to be proud of our English Laureate ! ** O , If foolish men neglect bard , is vour your wa £ res ? hard ,

    I think I hear not the much roll of of the yours ages or . " mine—If ever foolish bard thought of addressing Alfred Tennyson , meets D . C . L with ., in . terms Colossal of satire indignation ! Gigantic , what humiliation crushing ! sarcasm And all this he means while he that hears the " irate the roll poet of had the been ages Avaiting , " which in , being dudgeon interpreted for his , morning Third and roll , fourth which stanzas had not : — come at the proper hour . " This fallen leaf—isn ' t fame as brief ? My rhymes may have been the stronger . [ lie wo 111 give hi . ]

    Yet I last hate but me a not moment [ hypocritical longer . charily ] , but abide your lot—[ If ) wt this a mo is wha ment t yoii longer ' ve ' ^ come we beseech to , O Alf , ] red ! " O , What faded room leaf , isn is here ' t fam for e as a hater brief ? ? [ We hi mi l > a t hatter imag . ine A that t the has bill been was omitted sent no -doubt y . ] , Vet For the it yellow hangs one leaf moment hates the later greener . " leaf , [ 77 o / n is the is most i / uality lik of ely some a passing Assam observation tea which the great man is discussing . ]

    he liut proceeds the great to show D . C . his L . scorns superiority to continue in simp the le prose quarrel . in verse ; 1 shall " What live \ " to sec s he it . , " Well greater than know I—isn if ' it t that be so your so cry it is ? And and , you , , ; feminine if it isn ' t log , why ic within it aint it , and ! " This we almost rejoinder fancy shows some repulsed an almost or time repulsive , and washer her words -woman have mi been ght ri have nging been in the in poet the ' room s cars . at the poets don ' t wash .

    That Once If The The As Inverse Ad Give ...

    Last stanza : — " O , summer leaf , isn ' t life as brief ? [ Third time of asking . } ' But this is the time for hollies : — And my heart , my heart , is an

    evergreen—{ The his own bard lau has rels evidentl a / id y they been have swallowin got into g his head . ] I hate the spites and the follies . " think We that have the doubts great as man to these had been lines to , and a bad are pantomime half inclined over to night , and had intended to write" I hate the sprites and the follies . " However , that is immaterial , and only refers to the omission of These the spiteful are the letter stanzas r . for which we dare not surmise how much as an equivalent has been paid for b his y a gold spirited . Wh editor y , if , Catnach and which had are sent returned such lines other out popular into excitement the streets , he on would the Clerkenwell have been hissed Explosion off , the or flatrc

    ware If some for insertion young asp in the irant most from Grub street lace of had half offered - such miscellanieshe would have been commonp kicked out of the office penny by an editor , without , an 7 i at his service . And we do not hesitate to say thought that there , from is not beg a inning redeeming to end line of or the thoug weak invention , or the g . host And to see Napoleon on t ) ie rock at Elba turn round and run after his cocked as great a descent , which the from wind the might sublime have to blown the ridiculou off , would s as is this be sad Memoriam ebullition . " of childishness on the part of the author of "In violent We do dyspepsia not doubt from that which , ere this he , has he has been recovered suffering- from ( and the the and public ashes too . ) , and If he is is sitting really on penitent his butt he of will sherry not object in sack to cloth our *~ % nnvACPi -r \ re l XIX - \ i w 1111 1 X 1 *\ 1 < - *

    ClVLUl ^ OOlli ^ * . CL Paulo-post Stanza . O , fallen think bard us , isn ' uncivil this too j hard ? You And ' ve got ive it up hot writing , so abide drivel your . lot ,

    A Hiss In Time.

    A HISS IN TIME .

    The Re-Action Has Come At Last Over The ...

    The re-action has come at last over the water . civic Everybody force at has the heard Porte of St . the Martin signal Theatre triumph a few gained nihts over back the . Expression of adverse opinion , in the shape of " goosing g , " sustain of the e police d by a who whole had theatre to yield -full . , It to has the great been chagrin said that , no th doubt e hiss , was We have directed no hesitation against a caricatu in saying re that of Schneider this was not ' s way so . of Madlle acting . . Silly , the actress hissed , is undeniably clever , but at the same time it has , the ever strangest been our ( to lot put to see mildl . y On ) young this occasion person when she put likes out her tonerue—a eresture as repulsive as is possible , when

    comwould mitted raise by a fish storm -woman in , E ngland which which , performed neither manage on the r _ s tage nor , police been remarked would be on sufficient the entrance to quell of . Madlle Some . hisses Delval , had who alread shows y too much of herself , even for the money now paid for a stallan Parisi d the an prices mirid that have there risen was —so a portion that there of is the no public doubt who in felt the that was high indecency time had brains come should to its step ultimat in and e boundary drive the , and intruders that it back . _ Tlmm i « a rrv rrninf nn in Paris , now ravine * . " T . pt us havo

    p pieces lays which in which our wives the and plot dau depends ghters may on m ost e ; we legs or least k of send shoulders the witles ! Sensuality s harlotry and of deg the radation revue to have the new had their streets ' turn and : p the lace public for the , gardens wit that , and elevates let . " us Nor have can food our for neig thoug hbours ht throw , and growing the fault on nd the infecting World ' s e Fair whol of e last stage year for . The rs fungus , culmin has ating been in the shameless atrocities of last year ' s faeries , and though here

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 18, 1868, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_18011868/page/2/