THE LIFE OF LORD BROUGHAM.*

... champion, their gratitude did not stop there. At the general election of 1812 he was invited to stand for Liverpool; and the Whig party, wanting to dish Canning, as he said,, put up two candidates, and thus lost both seats. Brougham remainedc out of ...

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 ...

VARIEITES

... little idea. Bull u n- doubtedly frightened the Whig aristocracy from the court of Brandenburgh Rouse, and this influenced the decerouS middle classes. The Parliamentary speeches and votes of the Whig leaders had less authority; and the popularity of ...

Peotry

... Ftorgetful of all vain aund worldly things, Our spirits, free from toll and earthly care, Soar far above us, as on angel whigs. t Sweet peace of evening, who can tell its worth t A bonison Divine to mortals given; Its praise cannot lie sung by toigues ...

NEW NOVELS

... come home to Miss Turner and I, The good Tryon flumped out L of the room, Charles II. and Cromwell-is a biter pill for a Whig,-.these are but a few of the grammatical eccentricities to be found in Hetty. We would recommend Mr. Kingsley a 1primer ...

POETRY

... di stity ill of littpyv hours, it 'i wle xith the irtilt Stitall ,II 1xtilOrn flings, Withi telilel'r stittlil of iltsilt Whigs rront ?? Suittovs of ?? flowers: In thv wastrm silent nveary tittie ?? hells but Nvliwperi of Wild bees; 'fit. -l~tles'ssl' ...

LITERATURE

... sequel; so far as our limits - permit, - to -- - estimate, Mr f Christie's judgment of - the - ekbeer - of the founder -of the Whig party; --.but w-ov Aiopot that, though our literature is still without an: adequate monument of one'of its most &rilliant ornaments ...

PAU AND THE PYRENEES.*

... John Bull, we believe, has returned homne under the impression that here was a fresh instance of the ?? spirit of our veteran Whig statesman, who was to be found attacking the most forbidding Pyrenean peaks with the same boldness he would have displayed ...

MR. GLADSTONE'S TRAGEDIAN

... attended the first production of Cato, for instance, when the rival parties of the State crowded l)rury Lane, and the Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was men- tioned as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every clap to show that ...

THE FIRST LORD SHAFTESBURY.*

... of contemporaries, the written statements of Pepvs, Evelyn, Clarendon, and North, the opinion of a critic like Macaulay on a Whig whom he cannot whitewash, are all tossed aside as worthless: ard on what grounds we have searched the book in vain to discover ...

THE READER

... the Bishop of Exeter as the obscene renegade Phillpotts, and Queen Adelaide as a nasty German frow. Mr. Molesworth is a Whig, and makes no secret of it; but he does his best to write with impartiality, and we think his statements may generally be accepted ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2026 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY NOTICES

... regard ;ls the beat test of action, whether in commerce or politics. Lord Detby could rally round bins the best men of the W~hig, Liberal, and Conservative parties ; and, if he were entrusted with the formation of a ministry, it would without quostion ...