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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Presidential election. (search)
Thackeray's George IV.
Thirty-eight years ago, when George IV. was but a new King, upon the occasion of his visit to Ireland, Byron wrote: "Spread — spread for Vitellius the royal repast, Till the gluttonous despot be stuffed to the gorge.
And the roar of his drunkards proclaims him, at last.
The Fourth of the fools and oppressors called George."
Bitter as this language is — exceeded in bitterness only by what precedes and follows it in the same poem — posterity has endorsed the judgment pronounced upon the royal glutton by the indignant bard.
Mr. Thackeray is the last who has spoken, and the only difference between the contemporary satirist and the essayist of the present day, is, that the former attacks the living monarch with the stern indignation of a patriot, while the latter treats the dead King as a fit subject for no sentiment stronger than derision.
All the laughing devils under Mr. Thackeray's control — and their name is legion — are let loose upon the