New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-02


WILKINS troisiag he coice.
Won know tina, Won PecautG1 all you sid
Touching tie silcfanient III that same oDok
You wrote against my Lord OF Winchesier;
Dssemble not; play the pialn Christian iliih'
CkASlEn.
/ have been nan loved plainness all my life
did dssembc, bat the honr has come ..y
For utter truth and plaipness wDefnlOfe, L say
I hold by all wrote within that DOok'
A. Tor the Pope count him Antichrist,
With ali his devils doctrines; and refuse
Reject him, and abhor him nave saii a. , avrav
with him
Ay. stop the heretic's mouth Hale him away.
WILLIAMS.
Harm him not, harm him not, nave him to the fire.
The manner in which the great Protestant martyr
welcomed his fate is thus rccied by an eyewitness
Enter PETERS.
HOWARD
Peters, my gentleman an lSI ,a CSan0e fire.
one that would neither niisreport nor lie'
Not 10 gain paradise no, nor II the rope
peio,s how rrlc You COX You bring The smoke
of CranmcI's burning with YOU
PEERS.
The smoke Of Cranmcr's burning wrapi me round
Howard.
Peters YOU know me Catholic bat English.
Did he die brayely Tell me- that on leave
All else untold
Ny Lori he died mOst braycly
How ,HD
Then tell ro nj.
Az, Master Peters tellus
rfTER.
you saw him now he past among the crowd;
And ever = ne WalSd ile tpanish friara
Htiii rhei Hin w.th cnfreaiy ana L9ll"'cn'
Steers. ever oskin 10 the h9ppv haven
Where he shall rest ut night, moved 10 is death;
And could ecc tba many s.lci.t hands A.,
Game from tie crowd and met ms OWE; ana mus
when We had come where Ridley hnnt Win Lailmer,
H.. Win cl'rl1q %iile ~ Ga s. " nose a'nd
ihey had moe "a his misery Win, and ali In white,
Iii long at. hoard. which n bed r''tr 'ha'ch
since II nry's death, doVnswcspu TO he citin,
Wncrrwlth tho bound him to tbs state he stood,
More ne an alcaut father 81 me church,
IMAM hereto - tnc-" tHn"e; and stl ~" triars
pied him. BAT C.lmuer only shook hi- head,
o. answered t!i.m ~ silent nrsaiiy,-;
Whcrcat ord Williams gave sudden cry =,
Maxi short! make short =: and - thy j! the wood
Then Crannicr hlci 'i' lrit hand t. hctcn,
hnd tLl;s' me tielt 'ut1 tic bitter Hain';
An crytn., in his decn voice, Iro,c man 9lite,
"Ihi, hatl attended ibis unworthy L"ud:
Tie Haric had r,rrh'i hi. hol ; TODD near-
he ncyci <.,rI;l o.. wriloc.l hri, Ike 3 ',atAc,
Umnoy. ~ in the -s,i'n SIS oi Gre iame;
Martyr may not cai him l,-t-bat wh.iher'
70 purgatory, man, 10 pqrs.lery.
Nay. but, ny Lord, he =. a.si rnrsatory
WY then 10 heaven, ana cd Ia marcy on Lin.
p, get. despite his f,arfu h.,c,'cs
J ioscd the n!an, AMI needs must iroan Tor him;
y Cranncr!
Eat y0nr moan /. uecles. now:
Come ont, my Lord. d. is "a n0rll OF fools.
The Llowly Green of England. by which name
Mary is faniliariy known IN El%i.h history. woalI
hardly seer, 10 present Che quaii;e, which appeal 70
the imagination of The pet teupt the shiii of ih,
artist. She is usually represented ~ coarse. coni-
monrace character, with slender intellectual Gifts,
devoid of all iehdcr sentiments, except lliud pfs-
sion for the So usual and cruel SpaDiird, who s0Hg 1t
her hand but did not beStow h love tor purposes al
an ambitions ani gGaepng state policy the passive
victim OF stern religious faU3iicem, whose ai3a-
rent firnnc 3 was OILY "a cynical ohatnacy, whose
deyout aspirations worc blended With gloomy
superstition and a yindioti,e fcTocity, and Wi,h
VII ln! al he sweet al pure ale i0As Of benign
wonanho1d were swlinwed mp in the absorbing Inst
of power and the Indulgence OF drnoHIdc temper.
NJ. Tcnnvson hIs made ~ AIT ongi to sOttcn the mn
,lao "us ineInents II this p0rtrl'turc. lie u>o mo-
subtle Illusions To disQuiss ihe traditions of history.
He accept, The bloody May. rot "a tho heroine OF
romance, but rs she !, known BY her deeds the pr
ing crafty selfish woman, whose religion was trag-
cdy, and hose love c;.hindled the frs Of martyr
dom. 81 the same Tine she i, cnYiuncd by the ct
with the clements Of infinite pity. No one can listen
to her mournfu wall of disappointed maternity and
crushed affection without plns Of sympathy. Her
bleeding heart j. Teyeac in ny ihat almost ~ 2,
costs aiI apology for the hlood 81 martyr, thai WAS
shell b. her impclous Will. HcrsOiIoN, are painted,
not a. the glish Of shallow sentiment. bu, as tne
genuine agones al a wounded hcar;. THIS, no doubt,
partly explains te secret OF the weird charm which
tl,is wonderful poem exercises over the Imagination
of the reader lie j. tempted ~ iellOWfsling for
tie unhappy Queen in spite of himself, and his iudig-
nation AZ her crimes is tempered with pity for her
sulsring'. I! is Ike one If those singlr transfer
nations in which the portrait nf desperate crin-
nal is change into an image oi smiling beauty, and
face of placid tenderness is revealed beneath bag
gard and repu,i,o conncnance.
The Judgment pronounced by an English Journal
that nothing equal to this drama has appeared since
the tilneofShak, spca,r ifiutendcd tosues, a com
parison between ietwo great mas,ers betraysa lack
of sound dissemination ., 10 the peculiar merits Of
each There IS no COMPTON standard by which to
estimate the qualities Of Shakespeare the child Of
Nature. and of G,nnyson, tho o.plg Of culture and
art. The attempt 10 weigh them in he same bal
ance would be ire revival of the ancient fcud be-
tween genius and tai nt II IcnuA son il unaI
uo1clable among modern poets, II cannot be pre-
tended that he has himself approached the nights Of
inspiration which formed tho habtual ainOsph
of Shakespeare. The former has too much rerius
for mere imitation, but any rescmhlances that may
be- fancicd To Euglauds divine dramatic prophet
must be- the fruit of imitation and not of spoDta-
noity. II Nature 9ftrr creating Shakespeare "broic
the mold in which hc was formed" il WAS not recon
siucted for the composition Of 'icnn}sOn The two
poets if they may be ,a.d 70 live IL thc .dne world
for human passion in I'll It's manifestations is deuti
cll with 10 not breathe the same air do moi
feed or ihc same meats, dO not clotho in tlc s1mc
flesh aul blood the proe.ny of their minds 1le cN-
quisitc reGnemcnts of Yrnny>on. wrought out vita
a.! the dainty fccilcs OF trt, rroned in the tender
warmth of Artificial sunshine, and painfully eah-
grated through discipline Of fasnc and prayer,
belong to another order than the free cordial uncon-