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THE LITERARY LIFE OF THE MODERN ATHENS

... and Jeifrey, of Brougham and Hornet-, of Christopher North and the Ettrick Shepherd ; the age when Tory Blachtc'ood and Whig Review had their birth. The great lights died out one by one others, but none so brilliant, have shone in their places. They ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2523 | Page: 27 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THOUGHT-READING

... Ministerialists, eucompromising Radicals from below the gangway, )upporters of the Opposition, Parnellites, old-fashioned Whigs, members of the Fourth Party, and Mr. Ashmead- Bartlett, were mixed up together in the narrow space to orm one of the most ...

DOROTHY FORSTER

... and country gentlemen. Dinner despatched, he would presently walk to White's Coffee H ouse, in St. James's Street, where no Whig dare so much as show his face. Here would he take a dish of coffee or chocolate, with a pipe of tobacco, and, perhaps, if the ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7872 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DOROTHY FORSTER

... have in my Lord a pillar of strength. He will be to the loyal gentlemen of the North as much as the Duketof Argyll to the Whigs of Scotland. I have it on the best authority that, although brought up in France, he is an Englishman ; though a Catholic, ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6779 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BOLINGBROKE

... has written a good book. That he discusses BIolilnabrokc's character and conduct from the point of view of sympathy with the Whig, not the Tory, party, is certainly not against himl, for hostile criticism, ii the hostility be not unfair (and Mr. Harrop ...

LITERATURE

... from the noble lord's speech at hllacpulol in January lest:- The well- heave proverb, I Vex popubi, vax Del,' is to the Whigs as sounding brass and tinkling cymobals, f or they have always existed by corrupting and, deceiving the people. To the Radicals ...

MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE

... be damned to them,' adding his regret that one was not shot and the other hanged. This joke Mr. Llphinstone (who was a Whig himself) did not understand, and, like Mdr. Gilbert's islanders of Rtam-ti-foD, it grieved him very much. Such are a few ...

DOROTHY FORSTER

... have small interest in a Whig Court. Yet when a man is so highly placed he must have friends, cousins, and old acquaintances on both sides. Add to this, said Mr. Hilyard, that to-day my turn; to-morrow yours ! The great Whig Lords are not too certain ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7902 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Magazines

... their ever getting into it.-Mr. Gourlay thinks the Dissent and Radicalism of Wales due to the ecclesiastical policy of the Whigs in the eighteenth century.-Mr. Mallock has an admirable article, full of his incisive sentences, on Conservatism and Socialism ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1775 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DOROTHY FORSTER

... which we have held together for seven hundred years and perhaps more, the risk is too great. I do otsay nithrtha w ar t trn W'higs. We who fought for ?? y tem til. Teymade my grandfather Sheriff andKniht; teygav Si Caudusthe Manor of Bamborough savng u ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6847 | Page: 22 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... tried at Clountel in ISi4 Sir William wasu ssnmsclto peodece a letter he bad received in 1832:from certain leadinig men of the Whig pasty,,asking hue. to take comusand of 50,000 met.tansd macten ILondou for tho' 6,rpose of forcing the Ref orin BliU throug ...

THE READER

... Civil War. For that work we look with anxious expectation ; for, as Mr. Gardiner well says, Eliot and Stratford were neither Whigs nor Tories, and their politics, when studied simply for the sake of understanding them, assume a very different appearance ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2018 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture