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LITERATURE

... ' 4.$MY, 28TIH NOVEIMBEt, 1066 It was in Januar or December, Or else the end of cauld November, When I did see the outlaw Whigs Lye scattered up and down the riggs, Some had hoggars, some straw boots, Some uncovered legs and coots, Some had halbards, ...

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 ...

MR BERNAL OSBORNE'S JOKES

... joker, he is rather a broad joker; at times, in the conventional sense of the term. !He rather likes to joke about the old Whig birds having proved barren, and been obliged to try a cross with the famous Peelite strain, He said of Mr Milner Gibson that ...

LITERATURE

... 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 ...

PROVOST BELL'S BOOK—HAMILTONS OF BARR, &c

... to the Captain, occasioned much merriment; and it is re. lated that as-long as Sempill remained in Glasgow he and Cromwell's whig captain were always to- gether-the latter declaring that Beltrees was the cleverest gentleman in Scotland. Now, if the land ...

THEATRICAL TASTE AND MANAGEMENT

... tkrgivereatio6i she detests, not only to' the; ?? 'fthe little town of Tauntoni, hut- even to' sefptr Carewls own mother, a bitter Whig, who .belie'es, her son really dead, and to part with her little. ?? to this grandmother, lest the child should djecover her ...

NOTES ON THE EXHIBITION

... the moat ?? educated can underetand a ealeulating machine. If we go along, to the north of thin transept, wecome to another whig; here they call it annex with an e, ?? more yreoob, annexe. Why they prefer this word, to the mors telling wing of England ...

LITERATURE

... Charles Bunbury, my brother and I were invited to dinner by this beau-ideal of an Et'nglishsportsuian, whowasalsowellknown asa Whig politician and a mal ofihonour. A few months after. ?? Imethbimin London, when Iwasw walking with Lamb. Sir Cbarles shook hands ...

LITERATURE

... 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 ...

LITERATURE

... of Toulon and the retreat of Corunna he had represented the county of Perth in the House of Commons. ' He was a consistent 'Whig, and his views on Catholic eman. cipation found so little favour with his constituents that on the general election of 1807 ...

LITERATURE

... When King George was seized for the first time by his mental ailment the case was reported to the Laird of Gask by one of the Whig clergy, and the charac- teristic answer was- Ye see what ye've done to the bonest man. He has never had a weel day sin ye ...

LITERATURE

... afterwards, he did not know what to do with when he got them. In 1823 he wan elected, in spite o immenese opposition from the Whigs, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh. With the year 1826 he began to put forth his fall strength In Blackwoort, and shone ...