Excerpt: ... mass of people who were not within the sacred pale. When Dr. Home gave up the publication of the Gazette, in whose office Collins had been for some time a compositor, the latter applied for the position, and was informed that 'the office would be given to none but a gentleman.' This little incident recalls the quiet satire which Goldsmith levels in 'The Good-natured Man, ' against just such absurd sensitiveness as Collins had to submit to: - FIRST FELLOW-The Squire has got spunk in him. SECOND FELLOW-I loves to ...
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Excerpt: ... mass of people who were not within the sacred pale. When Dr. Home gave up the publication of the Gazette, in whose office Collins had been for some time a compositor, the latter applied for the position, and was informed that 'the office would be given to none but a gentleman.' This little incident recalls the quiet satire which Goldsmith levels in 'The Good-natured Man, ' against just such absurd sensitiveness as Collins had to submit to: - FIRST FELLOW-The Squire has got spunk in him. SECOND FELLOW-I loves to hear him sing, bekeays he never gives us nothing that's low. THIRD FELLOW-O, damn anything that's low; I cannot bear it. FOURTH FELLOW-The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if so be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. THIRD FELLOW-I likes the maxum of it. Master Muggins. What, though I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison, if my bear ever dances but to the very genteelest of tunes-'Water Parted, ' or 'The Minuet in Ariadne.' No doubt this little episode made the disappointed applicant inveterate against the Government, for he commenced, soon afterwards, the publication of an Opposition paper, in which be exhibited the rude ability of an unpolished and half-educated man. Footnote: C. Lindsey's 'Life of W. Lyon Mackenzie, ' Vol. I., p. 112, note. Mr. W. Lyon Mackenzie appeared as a journalist for the first time in 1824, at Queenston, where he published the Colonial Advocate, on the model of Cobbett's Register, containing 32 pages, a form afterwards changed to the broad sheet. From the first it illustrated the original and eccentric talent of its independent founder. Italics and capitals, index hands and other typographic symbols, were scattered about with remarkable profusion, to give additional force and notoriety to the editorial remarks which were found on every page, according as the whim and inspiration of the editor dictated. The establishment of...
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