. William Hone; his life and times. ue of their infamous power. There is nothing mincing in these denunciations, andthe squib took the popular fancy at once. Of Circularfame refers to the infamous circular issued to theLords-Lieutenant of counties, already dealt with. Not the least cutting bit of pictorial satire is thecorkscrew suspended from the watch of the Dandyof Sixty (otherwise the bibulous Prince Regent),while real pathos appears in the print of John Bullsstarving, weeping, ragged family, with the massacreof the people in the background. Portentous, unexampled, unexplained. What man, s
. William Hone; his life and times. ue of their infamous power. There is nothing mincing in these denunciations, andthe squib took the popular fancy at once. Of Circularfame refers to the infamous circular issued to theLords-Lieutenant of counties, already dealt with. Not the least cutting bit of pictorial satire is thecorkscrew suspended from the watch of the Dandyof Sixty (otherwise the bibulous Prince Regent),while real pathos appears in the print of John Bullsstarving, weeping, ragged family, with the massacreof the people in the background. Portentous, unexampled, unexplained. What man, seeing having human feelings, does not blushAnd hang his head to think himself a man? I cannot restA silent witness of the headlong rageOr heedless folly by which thousands gold for Ministers to sport away. A publication so popular, and commanding such largesales as The Political House that Jack Built,naturally produced imitations in several quarters. Onepiracy perpetrated, of which some of the woodcuts are ^^-. 1) il-f J jlh uo;o voiliru. l ) v«)SU Ual » hii h ili stroyr th ti OUALIFICATION. In love, and in diink, and oritopjilcd liy delit;With \vonicn, witli ^\ille, and w itii dnii< on the Iret. THE FIRST ILLUSTRATION IN THE QUEENS MATRIMONIALLADDER, POLITICAL PAMPHLETEERING 223 still in existence, was printed for L. Carvelho,London ; another, printed by J. Dawson, Norwich,was embellished with a mediocre woodcut of TheClerical Magistrate, Law & Gospel. There can belittle doubt that much of the success of Hones satireswas due to the excellence of the cartoons. The imitations essayed by the courtly booksellerswere weak and washy as compared with Hones, andhe therefore never felt any serious rivalry; lackingpoint and inventiveness, those of the opposite party failedto hit the popular taste, or to promote the cause theyadvocated. Rarely did he publish political satires fromother pens than his own ; one of the very few was The Man in the Moon. About
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