CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE, THE SCOTTISH HORACE WALPOLE

... Wyvth, Certainly, numberless poetical beauties. Mil- ton was a Whig, and, in my mind, an Atheist. I am persuaded his poem was composed to apologiss for the devil, who cer- tainly was the first Whig on record. He entered at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1798, ...

PARLIAMENTARY POEMS FOR INFANT MINDS

... vearied frox the favourite origincals, ` atd respectfujly desticated to the dfamras of England. ?? NATURAL HIOSTORY. J The Whig must como when he is called, The Tory walk away, w The Palmerston is slightly bald, d The Wood admires the Grey. w The Aberdeen's ...

LORD MELBOURNE

... the two principal diffi- culties in the formation of a Government were Lord Brougham and Lord Palmnerston. The whole body of Whig leaders, it seems, were sick of l.crd Brougham; and it was found impossible to include him in the new Administration. But who ...

EXTRACTS FROM FUNNY FOLKS

... club can't avail them now, Though beastly overbearing ; We have Affirmed, and this is how- The sacred right of swearing, THE WHIG, No, hang it all, we couldn't stand, After that IriEh bill, sirs, We. the chief owners of the land (And Churob), this bitter ...

MAD JACK HALL OF OTTERBURN

... George for the Whigs, raised the cry that the Church was in danger aud excited a spirit of disaffection through- out the realm. Riots were continually taking place in all the large towns, Dissenting meeting houses were pulled down, noted Whigs were threatened ...

LITERATURE

... terrible junetion of the two whig ohiefs had at last taken pleas-it was manifestly all up with the government. Honourable members had arranged, in their own minds, for what offices they womad or -would not take under the sew whig administration; pogroammes ...

A MAN OF ACTION.*

... see how in this a game of crose-parposes Godolphin's Whig Cabinet insinuated that the commander it had chosen I Yy wasl an impostor, while the Tories hotly upheld I. the heroism of its grmat a Whig as could be found in the kingdom. The assailed met the ...

LITERATURE

... Rockingham, accompanied by a paper on the t traditions of Whig cabinets. An article on English ad- I ministrations from 1816 to 1830 has been suggested by Mr. t Roebuck's History of the Whig Ministry; and among 1 the pleasing literary contributions ...

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 ...

POETRY

... should fate capricious Deny you bread, Your rich good friend, grown avaricious, Will c ut you dead. 'Whene'er a statesman, Whig or Tory, Talks loud a&d long Of serving country for the glory With yearning strong Needing no Sovereign to regard him; Look ...

SARAH DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.*

... true also of the whole Whig party. And it is more probable, as Dr. Ranke points out in his recently published History of England, that the dis- missal of the Duchess was only one part of that general design for breaking down the Whig domination which was ...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LORD BROUGHAM.*

... volume is taken up with Brougham's early tours in Scandinavia, Holland, Italy, and a mission to Portugal in iSHo, when the Whigs were in power. His journals are written with great vivacity, and show considerable power of description. Many lively sketches ...