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TRUE-BLUE AND BLUE-WHIG

... as for Blue - Whi%, the false creature) all, Is certain to run or to rat. True-Blue is of sure honest gender: his , Blue - Whig an effeminate thing, by T'Iis now to Reform a pretender, I ArAd now to the Tories will cling. by Here haingeth a ?? True-Blue ...

POETRY

... wouldl have bern the lirst to have felt, is, to sa' nothing more of it, very surprisitig.] AWA, WHItGS, All-A. Awn, Whigs, auwa, Awa, Whigs, awn, Ye're but a ?? o' traitor loons, Ye'll ne'er do gool at ?? Our thrintis (a) flourislt'd fresh and fItir, And ...

Poets' Corner

... (For party, mind, I do not care a fig; For why should Whig or 'Joi'y cramp or wvarp us?) And when the House of Commons was sent packing, lie *-alued not a pin what jokes wiere crackiig. A boiflde Whig he call'd himself, 1Though he, like other men, might ...

THE OUTS—A Dramatic Sketch in Dublin

... has destroyed everything. Sorry for yqu and West and Litton, but we are all out, and do not know where to turn. The infernal Whigs are in again, I fear firmer than ever.-ln haste, H. Goulburn.' The Sergeant (stuffing the letters into his pocket, walks out)- ...

IS IT LIKE?

... the renegade Times, may help to amuse at this time, all but the hero, and, perhaps, the bard:- PORTRAIT OF LORD STANLEY. Half Whig, half Tory, like thoie midway things, 'Tvixt bird and beast, that by mistakc have wiligs A miongrel statesman, 'twixt two factions ...

Poets' Corner

... wjpoetz' caorner. BRITANNIA sat weeping, The Lion lay sleeping, And Liberty sobbing in grief; % Wlhen a resolute band Of Whigs, hand in hand, Determined to give her relief. 'T'hev look'd here and there, Betwveen hope and despair, For a man that would ...

ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN

... see, I've got ready This clever and cunning resolution. With this, please the pigs I I'll upset the Whigs Ere they bring on a dire revolution. Ere the Whigs can appeal to the people, I'll steal A march on Lord John and his crew; All their plans I'll derange ...

JOHN BULL'S DILEMMA; AND HOW IT ENDED

... to the door, he Sent in a hudthfor Doctor Tory. The Doctor yame, and when duly fee'd Told John his case meas bad indeed; 4' Whig's Russewd PuRGl, ^ quoth he, with a laugh, Has made your nerves too strong by hair: Like a miser hamper'd by too much wealth ...

A PINCH OF SNUFF!

... chance to sit, And sip their slop, and talk of it, What gives a sharpness to their wit ? A pinch of soufr! AVhat introduces Whig or Tory, A nd reconciles them in their story, When each is boasting in his glory? A pinch of snuff! What warms-without a c ...

TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

... paper accused of fallingt short of the measure as a perfect reformer ? Only be- cause it is, andI has always been, while the Whigs have been in power, too much of a direct supporterof ministers; instead of de- voting its energies solely to the support of ...

REMARKABLE SAYINGS OF GREAT LAWYERS

... honoured walls behold with pain, Only thse ghost of their departed glory. LORI) LYNlIlltltST- aneformwa onle prayed for by the Whigs Heoand thea oble Duke had both beens taught so; For u rights the people scarcely ctaed two lris- He kneos it wellyand Mr ...

Poetry

... tie shovel hats.- All born ot the fi(01 sass colst'siol) that sprilsgs From a topsy.tssrry order of hlisugs! Thliaks to the Whigs, this reign of s-0ow Math become bilt a nimitrer of history new; war as Riuslen kilsIs, to Isis great slsouiet, 1lats' Paddy ...