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... of the citizens with the Whig party had remained unbroken, but there uwere evident symptoms of restiveness on the par. of, the forner. They had no absolute objections to urge against the candidates offered to them by the Whigs, bout they complained that ...

THAT GRAND OLD MAN!

... couldn't ake out what it all was about- Any more than the Grand Old Man, Ho, ho ! Any mtore thaty thr Grand Old Nan. Then the Whigs took it up and moved stumping abroad, In a terrible fuss to maintain Tbst the great Manifesto was what they adored, Whilst ...

TOWN AND TABLE TALK ON LITERATURE, ART, &c

... rather have seen Mrs. Fletcher in a box at a theatre than have seen Mrs. Siddons on the stage of the same theatre. She was a Whig, and long a widlow. She i married for love of. what marriage is said seldom to give-liberty. Her husband, Archisiald Fletcher ...

SONG

... ?? And privilege siffers a gross uiiminution, th For nothing is safe tram these Wiigs, - he 5 I r These Whigs; Cli 0. nothing is sacred from Whigs I tb They ruired the landlords through Peel, .ha And Tbrcugh Peel - * And they' ipdered the farmers a-de ...

SPIRIT OF PUNCH

... have been, And queerish bed-fellows I've seen, But never aught like this- Then swelled the wrath of Gladstone's tail- To Whigs and pries shall Progress quail ? And Stansfeld was the cry- But Clarendon upreared his head, His cigarette fung by, With ...

AS THE OLD COCK CROWS, THE YOUNG COCK LEARNES

... compass must swell, The more noisy the crowd are; Yet for Lords to throw dirt On the Peerage too bad I call- Lord Russell is Whig, Yiscount Amberley Radical: Goes-in for the masses, - - Would triust to the millions To tool their own drag Without Peers for ...

POETRY

... And Fraser-mion from Buelhan's Bracs. Let Farquharson-s from Loeh.na-gur, And Forbeses from loal Stratlidon, Join westland whigs from vild Stranraer, And Tories from Loeh.Torridon. tlaedonalds from Glengarry conic, Fiom Kcppoch, loidart, Arruadale, And ...

OUfi LONDON CORBESPONDENCE. Sunday Night. The death Frances, Countess of W'aldegrave, less well known as Lady ..

... Lady Holland's parties in a previous generatiou, Frances, Countess of Waldegrave, was looked upon as the chief dispenser of Whig hospitalities, and both Carlton Hardens and at Strawberry .Hill —Horace Walpole's Rococo retreat—she dispensed them with a ...

THE TRANSVAAL MUDDLE

... honourable ? I, says Selbornte glib, Although it was a fib, I called it honourable. ATho cried Shame upon it ? I, 'ay Whig and Tory, And all who care for Britain's glory, We cried Shame upon it. Who approved it 8tronrly ? t We, say ,il the Rads ...

A MODERN PROPHECY

... beer barrels? bi What of the five millions? 0, Prophet ?? I cC Deficit obvious, 0 Plainly bequeathed to us m By these false Whigs. m Quick-witted Benjamite, ul Sbiftv and elever pi Leading the Philistinea; in Glancing along their lines, t Confident ever ...

THE ACCEPTABILITY OF THE DIDACTIC NOVEL

... tionoften find it d~ifficultto graspandrcalise to them. selves 'the scenes and character which it describes. But -n infusion of Whig and Tory, of Church and Chapel, or of Manchester and Oxford, supplies just the avour and consistency which they require. Such ...