... Republican. At the time when he wrote, the era of the Crimean war. England was still practically ruled by the great families, Whig or Tory, and of these Brough had the bitterest hatred, which finds a vent in his verse. A lord in his eyes is synonymous ...

... kinogs without a head, and pon giving us to know that the head, which was of beaten Si vel, was stolen several years imnes 'Some Whig, I'll war- rant you,' says Sir Roger. 'You ought to look up your kisegs better; they'll carry off the body too, if yoe re not ...

... by GOscan L This lady had knocked d at Dr. Jorsol'S door, bad known Pox, and 1 Ulonw=A, Duchess of DEVONBE3B, and fthe u ?? Whig society of the reign of GORG P IIL Shel had also known the Duchess of n QvmsmaY, the patroness of GAY and PIox, g the admired ...

... Canning to the Colonial Office, and ends soon after die passage of the Reform Act ; the third comprises the history of the Whig Ministry from the passage of the Reform Act to the fall of Mel- bourne in 1841 ; the fourth, concerned with the gradual adoption ...

... which he %would have disowned. He was, in agr fact, characteristically a Whig in all his thei habits and modes of thought; a Whig ill tinc politics, a Whig in metaphysics, a I Whig in MU religioustonets; eminently moderate,reasonabble, adai .1averse ...

... military science, or would declare that Mr. Spurgeon could not possibly be interested in a visit to Jerusalem. MR. MORLEY AS A WHIG. The other day I met a very eminent man, who had known Mr. Morley personally for years, who asto. nished me by talking of him ...

... lyric lat theatres, has been an opera house since 1705, bi] when the building erected at the cost of thirty AT members of the Whig party and of the Kit Cat Club, was opened with 1 The Triumph of t Love. The famous male contralto Nicolni, th n ...

... utmost secrecy, and it was intended that the first number of The Qtucterliy should fall like a bombshell among the astonished Whigs. James Ballantyne writes to Murray in January, 1809, that he bad heard a gentleman ask Scott whether The Quarferly would be ...

... Mel- bourne ponderous in spite of brevity, and as , solid and serious ias the life of a devout .or P attorney. The d6bonnair Whig statesman of Bar It the early Victorian days demanded a bio- -t grapher with a lighter hand and a zn little more natural sympathy ...

... two families in whcm the intere-t centres and the contention between Roundheads and Cavaliets, Hlanoverians and Jacobites, Whigs and Tories. There is the dis- possessed heir in exile, returning at last to disappoint the loyal heart which placed its wvhole ...

... in which each party affected to find such encouraging allusions that the curtain fell amidst the unanimous applause of both Whigs and Tories' To this extent, then, the presence of political influence in criticisms of poetry is inevit- able. But what, we ...

... young fellow of gay disposition, who only needed polishing to cut a dashing figure in the world. Taking him forthwith under her whig, as I have said, she pointed out that he had embarked on an entirely wrong track, the only really modern and Parisian method ...