And put a stop to his spouting.
“What though these heretics heard me not,”
Quoth he to his friends Canonical;
“My speech is safe in the Times I wot,
And eke in the Morning Chronicle.”
W. M. Thackeray.
This parody is supposed to be the first composition by Thackeray that was ever published. It appeared in an Exeter newspaper soon after the great meeting, on the question of Catholic Emancipation, had been held on Penenden Heath.
The Sailor Boy.
The Sailor Boy on a tour is gone—