REFERENCES DESCRIPTIVE OF THE PLATES. CORIOLANUS. THE illustrations of this celebrated tragedy have been commenced with the original cause of the hostility between the people and CORIOLANUS; and the mobbing has been condensed as much as possible. To those who remember Kemble in this character, it may appear that some of his points have been omitted; but that is the case only where the point has been in the dialogue, and not possible to be represented in pictorial delineation. I. CAIUS MARCIUS opposing the people on the subject of the gratuitous distribution of corn. "CIT. Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yourselves scabs? 1 CIT. We have ever your good word. MAR. He that will give good words to thee, will flatter Beneath abhorring.-What would you have, you curs? What's their seeking? MEN, For corn at their own rates; whereof they say, The city is well stored." |