... and reports (?) the speeches of Parliament as The Senate of Liliprit, taking care, as he afterwards said, that the dogs (whigs) should not have the best of it. His poem of London brought him into note, and led to his recognition in literary circles; ...

... show is an institution of considerable antiquity. Long before the House of Commons was divided into the two great factions of Whigs and Tories ; long before the name of reform became the shibboleth of a party, the civic procession to Westminster struck terror ...