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52 THE TOMAHAWK. . [7><(k 3', 1869.
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The Puritans. By Ernest Myers. London : ...
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MACBETH, Grand Opera. (Par A—br—ise Th—m—s.)
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52 The Tomahawk. . [7><(K 3', 1869.
52 THE TOMAHAWK . . [ 7 ><( k 3 ' , 1869 .
Our Bookmarker.
OUR BOOKMARKER .
The Puritans. By Ernest Myers. London : ...
The Puritans . By Ernest Myers . London : Macmillan and Co . 1869 . Swinburne This is ' one s Atalanta of those in dramas Calydon (!) indirectly for which responsible we must hol . d That Mr . the wonderful classic work form of of real drama genius which gav has e a stimulu not as s to et the succeeded revival in of producing any equal to its , prototype . We may y imitate the form of the ancient dramabut Mr . Swinburne ' s work is a solitary i nstance ajestic The Puritans r hythm success , an n i ot n , a deep classical emp trag ting i subject c power repro lik . du e ce Atalanta its dignity bu , its it drama is treated an classi d of c all s y . M There ilton is are onl e chief y four spe personages aker , except , in the the i Chorus n in vivid dicat , . e We an ict y u must depth confess or p n assio that n , or the is apoem a name sad dealing of misnomer " drama with . , " its if A subject mean more t g scarc loomy el , not ever p to come resque say across dull , guage p even iece , in our ntique researches affectation amongst we have the literary Mr . Ernest y lumber M of the is past a , . clever manand he comes of a clever family . yers His brother is the young author of , St . Paul , and one blue of the . But great we leaders would of entreat the movement the author for of dye the ing present all women work doubt to pause he will before find he tries to le scale foolish Parnassus h to again natter . him No with the title of poet many . There peop is an irresistible enoug attraction for with some choruses people in , a and book plentifull nicely y printed sprinkled , written with in " blank yeas" verse and , are " nays prone , " and to pronounce other old-fashioned such productions frippery . poetry Women —we , particularl are getting y , poetical into alliteration thoughts —without or even enquiring feelings lurking whether under there that reall venerable y are any tion disguise soon . Mr perceive . Myers that will , there if he is give nothing the matter in this quiet drama considera which - little might , which not just need as have well been have written been at written all . He in prose will , wish and with very us and , that college he had exercises consigned repose it . to It the would limbo be where too his much other to expect school , a rig man ht to who expect had from taken him a firs correct t class versification to be a poet . ; but We we select have the a following as specimens of inharmonious and incorrect lines : — " " And Shall angry presentl clamour y in a kindlier and pushing clime to of and peace fro . . " " — — P P . . 15 i 6 « . " " All Still saw living full , and plainl deem y , and that how he since has known war begun on earth . "—P . " . — 31 P . . 17 . " " Holds Look fearfull yet wild y when revel ; they neither hear art that thou Cromwell , O friend comes . "—P . . " 33 — . P . 32 . " Brave also , and he with all his routed host . "—P . 44 . it also In our was time supposed blank vers to hav e used e rh to ythm have : but ten perhap and not s the eleven advance feet ; of Instances intellect has of alternate changed all or that consecutive . lines rhyming will be found most inexcusable in pp . 16 , 17 fault , 18 , . and 25 , in the blank verse portions—a
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the " mysteries for nonsens " e of lines this , dra we ma will . not inflict on our readers all " What time the young-eyed morning smote the sea " may sea with be very his tail poetical . . It suggests to us a puppy lashing the P . 20 , in chorus , we find" They wondered that none would uphold . " they " They would " probabl not have y had " very ndered little th kn at owled none ge would of gram m hold ar , or " wh My en ers' the authority re was nothing for " subtill for y " em ? Milton to uphold uses . " What subtly , is " and Mr . there is such a word as " subtilel y ; " but to Mr . Myers belongs the W s ole should honou n ot of have inven dragged ting " subtill this y . p " recious drama from the been conge finall nial " ob relegated scurity , " to which did not it represent has , we a hope class , by of this publica time - tion which is becoming a real nuisance . Some industrious and h in e telli repeats gent boy his succeeds achieveme in producing at the Un a iversity prize poem ; he at lear school ns to ; masters translate Eng Sop lish hocle sufficientl s , ^ Eschylus y to , a understand nd Euripides Shakespeare with ease ; and he upon these premises he concludes that he is * a poet . , The m position akes his which ponderous his pers p rigg vera nce m accept and talents ed by have many fairl as y brill earn iant ed , l ori ear g n inality t the ; kn ack is hailed of imitati as a n poet differe by n t m frie odes nds of because versificatio he has n this and new the outside genius because world is they expected g cannot understand to fall down him and . Obscure worship , affectation is to be accepted as deep significance ; assumed m gen who m entato an ius ne m . ris g r ht s m Thus , are be useful ludicrousl it is that be in admi men their y exalted red who generation as as are the poets respectable inseparable as an compilers d orig scholars inal cruditi thinkers or , e com s and of - . amount No amou of stud of ac y can quainta make nce an with orig poetry inal thinker can make . A man a poet migh ; no t j ust ed an Elizabethan ell claim to be costume a Sir of W Messrs alter R . alei Nathan gh becaus as call e he hi had ms quaint elf a p expressions oet because which he had are found ught hi in mself the works certain of , anti great que poets and . of It is grace as a , p of rete elegance ntious , piece of feeling of affectation , or of , p devoid ower , utterl of imag y wanting ination , i n has poetic the thoug name ht of or a clever expression man , th to at recommend we condemn it , but this nothing work . else .
Macbeth, Grand Opera. (Par A—Br—Ise Th—M—S.)
MACBETH , Grand Opera . ( Par A—br—ise Th—m—s . )
Has [The Encouraged Vast Success Him Of ...
has [ The encouraged vast success him of to Hamlet proceed : , the in Grand the adaptation Opera of M of . Thomas Shake- , We p speare rop regret hetic ' s great libretto that tragedies we cannot of the to supply forthcoming the lyrical the music work stage ] , . with We the give plot here , & c a . Macbeth . —Part I . The Argument . on the The the armies O heath pera of near opens Duncan Forre with , l s e , a in merry b honour y Macbeth -making of the , and which victories Banquo is taking gained , over place the by lad Norwegians s and lasses and celebrate their allies , in , draughts the rebellious of " Thanes Mountain . The Dew Scotch , " and in Macbeth " Highland now enters Flings , accompanied , " the triump by h Banquo of their , and favourite followed chief by . his the a train succession retinue of pi of pers a to , Hi dunniewassels the ghland Thanedom Chief , of & of c that , Glavis such period as amidst . generall He the announces y cheers formed of mouredl the drama peasants , is represented announces ; while that Banquo as a he lig is ht ( who - not hearted , made for the young Thane purpose fellow of of Glavis ) good the l - yric hu but - y , dition declare to s the his interest love for of Macbeth the fable ' , s and beautiful one which wife , Shakespeare an important must adcertainl tified ambition y have , contemp dismisses lated the . Macbeth merry-m , akers in a wild j but outburst in the of word gra s - he " aroint shows thee that " his ( preserved mind is fro dwelling m the text on the of Witches the immortal whom bard when ) , , ,
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), July 31, 1869, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_31071869/page/10/
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