LITERATURE

... truth there is in its caustic portraitures of whigs dead and living, but also much of the peon- liar view that Lord Brougham's feelings tempt him now to take of them. An entirely reliable estimate of the whigs as a party, and of the surviving members of ...

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 ...

LORD RUSSELL.*

... from i8x9 to I826 the Whigs did not touch the Reform question, quite overlooking his own great speech in I822. The mistake of the reviewer, however, if any at all, was in the implied statement that in i8i9 and in 1826 the Whigs did adopt the question ...

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 ...

Magazines

... as we do that there have been Whigs and Tories, trider various aopellations, ever since the world began, and although we do not wish to imitate his acrimony by stating the name (according to Dr. Johnson) of the first Whig, we cannot admit that one party ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1877
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1428 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... save honour ; the quaint Scottish gentlewoman of the older world ; the queer little cripple ; the Whig officer who is a good fellow, and the other Whig officer who is an unmitigated villain and poltroon; the trimming provost; the foolish and conceited ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1899
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 941 | Page: 34 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... first Reform Bill. They succeeded to the inhersitance of the old Whigs, who in their time did g good yeoman's service to the State. There are individual W: higs left now, but the Whigs as a party are dead and e gone. No young politician starting in public ...

GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF 1853—DEPU TATION TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT

... but which, with whateverl reluctance, must come at last. v ?? THE MINISTRY-THE WHIGS. b (Prom thes Morning Advertiser) a It is now as much taken for granted by the Whigs, as if c the fact had already occurred, that the Derby ministry will not be in existence ...

THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS

... damaging to the Whigs; and there is good reason to believe that if the King had lived, and dissolved again, as he would have done, in 1838, the reaction would have been complete. But it would have been chiefly due to a belief that the Whigs would stick ...

SPRING

... year's waking. Oh ! I love, I love the beautiful Spring, When morn is newly beaming, And the larlks aloft on their misilons whig, Their praise through the ether streaming; And I love, I love the freshening breeze, The lowing herds, and the green, green ...

PARTY

... even after the Whigs have bolted, government by the best men , is not an abs~olute impossibility. From evil spirits and from metaphors, groaned Paul Louis, good Lord, deliver uts With those evil spirits of the Liberal party, the Whigs, it is a favourite ...

LITERATURE

... Liberalism. After showing tire feeloleroess of Whig legislation, and rejjoicing at the advent of tire Derby Adlminiotration to power, from Whinch lire expects noucla noore really liberal messures than fruom ony Whi.g governmsent, tire writer gives some valuable ...