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... loons ! They've lifted the latch, and there they stand, t Six striding stark dragoons ! ' t Too late, too late, thou crop-eared Whig ! ' Too late to turn and flee ? t To-morrow thou'lt dance thy latest jig, t High on a gallows-tree !tI They bound his arms ...

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... them manzsd; They beat our foes by sea and land, And sacred was the British strand When they were King of the Castle. The Whigs, though Tory in the grain, Saw place, and pow'r.if they could reign, So pulled, and pushed with might and main, - TilI-they ...

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... rage, No heart more genuine beat-when off the stage. Macaulay takes his stand as one of the chiefs, if not the chief, of the Whigs in oratory, and is thus compared with Brougham and Burke:- In that rare gift-few gifts more rare in men- The twofold eloquence ...

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... periodical, in blue and yellow bound, That appears on old Whi tatles as quarter-day comes round, And many a good od- tisvoned Whig would make L sad ado, 'Were a quarter-day to pass without his E&tinlurgti Review £! But not in ?? uniform of blue and yellow ...