responsive to the people while maintaining my commitment

Yet where the sombre Templar rides the Modern caitiffs fly,

The Mummer (of The Mummer's Wife) has got it in the eye,

From Felix Holt his patent Colt hath not averted fate,

And Silas Lapham's smitten fair, right through his gallant pate.

There Dan Deronda reels and falls, a hero sore surprised;

Ha, Beauseant! still may such fate befall the Circumcised!

The Egoist is flying fast from him of Ivanhoe:

Beneath the axe of Skalagrim fall prigs at every blow: