The Archive · 1891

The English Mail Papers

We wonder whether the whirligig of Time will bring in his revenges in Bismarck' case i la week Ter eartuon of the Prince as Coriolan The strong, rugged, features of the great Well, well, well would he had continued to'his country As he began; and not unknit, himael/, lo knot he made." So they'll whine out The smug Srcrsruses. But what I wonder once again ians make new head Vi ex-Chancellor suit well with the Roman \Y* yuin my shadow, then garb, and Tenniel has hardly ever been Trample.my own projection? So they babble more successful in a drawing of the Prince, Who'd silence me, make this my mouthpiece for it is no caricature. The motto is from mute 5 Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Act I. Se. 1:—Who prate of tion—banishment, "Such a nature, 1 Perchance, anon, for me, as for the Roman, Tickled with good success, disdaits the Because 'I cannot brook to be commanded shadow Under Comrsivs." What said Vouomnta Which he treads on at noon."

'The accompanying verses are well worth Pea yThgeclones phelps To her imperious oon?'

The man was noble, the ensuing age abhore'd I would not First Citizen, Consider you what services he ye has done for his country My own Vinottta say so—she who freta Second Citizen. Very well; and could be At my colossal chafing. Annmx's shade content to give him good report fort, but that Would mock my fall; but silent Fried-he pays himself with being proud."—Corio- richsruh, Janus, ActI., Scene 1.

[Teuton Coriolanus loguitur Was ever man so as 18 this MaRcrus?" There spoke the babbling Tribune! Proud great gods All power seems pride to men of petty souls, As the oak's knotted strength seems arrogance To the slime-rooted and wind-shaken reed That shivers in the shallows. who An eagle on the topmost plun Of the State's eminence, and harried thence All lesser fowl like sparrows!—I to hide Like a chased moor-hen in a marsh, and bate The breath thatawed the world into a whisper, That would not shakes taper fame or stir A flickering torch to flaring I do wonder His insolence can brook to be commanded.

'Commsrus." So the Roman said: Srcrs1us Vexvrvs, than hast reason. Under Comrxrus!' Who's Comnsrcs now The adolescent-Emperor, or his cool om} it 2 Comusrus!

Unseasoned youth, or untried middle-age, A shouting boy, or a sleek-spoken elder, Hot stripling, cool supplanter I serve not Under Comrstus," nay!—yet since he stands, There, where I made firm footing amidst smug comfort where we Titans struggled—

Irks me, whilst lesser spirits so misshape My vast designs, whose shadow dwarfed, distorted, I trample in my anger, thus—thus—thus The Pall Malt giv duction of Kay Biemarcks, wh much disunited, influencing the son, bent upon sobering his father, This is the true reason, we are told, why Count Her-amuse themselves with stories about the bert has fled into Egypt." The papers hostility of Bismarck to the young Emperor, and the Emperor is understood to have referred to his grandfather's great henchman in his 3] at the dinner of the Brandenburg Diet The Emperor referred to the dinner of last and said that many of then: might have felt doubts as to the paths which he was following at the time, and the objects which he had in view, but he knew that he could reckon upon their constant support. He spoke of Great Elector" as the ideal of his youth, and as the inspiration of his life, for the Elector had ascended the throne in his youth, and in times of peril and difficulty. The Emperor said that he fully recognised that the situation at t time had its anxieties, "A it of disobedience,

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