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VARIOUS VERSES.*

... 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 ...

THE REFORM CLUB LIBRARY

... too exclusively Whig ;tIne, Westmtinster was too inmcoinrpronuiin~ingly Rnndic'al. where-as thne Ite- form wsyn designed to ariibrd alt varieties oi Iteormuers in tite United K(inngdenn a wehoucne as wvell as at home, whlere tine Old Whig, the mode- rate ...

Some Extinct London Theatres

... his Ministers, was sent anonymously to Giffard, who, frightened at its audacity, carried it to Sir Robert Walpole. The great Whig Premier, who had long been suffering from such attacks from Henry Fielding's pen, there- upon brought into Parliament and passed ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1892
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1336 | Page: 22 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The World of Letters

... wicked adroitness to the purposes of the political satirist. Mr. Graves has even ventured to challenge comparison with the Whig poet in a version of Integer Vits,' and though he has no stanza that dwells in the memory beside O place me midst O'Rourkes ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1894
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1177 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HIGHLANDERS AFTER THE '45.*

... almost srints in comnitrison with those cittte-liftin- Jacobite villaims, the Alacdonlllds, %whose &layniores were red with Whig blood. In his detestation of them, he rojects their claims as Lords of the Isles, to treit, otl the footin of indepmciednt ...

REVELATIONS FROM WELBECK

... unravelled ? Why, that Defoe's visit to Edinburglh was not only purely political, in that he was acting as the secret agent of the Whigs, but that, to test his ability for the post, he had previously been sent oln a tour of much the same nature through the West ...

THE LONDON MUSIC HALLS

... contrasts are the very essence of a variety entertainment, and the success von by the singer, who was twice recalled to the whigs to acknowledge the persistent applause, may be quoted as a vindication of the good tests of the audience. M~r R. C. Ksnowvles ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1893
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3461 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Our Bookshelf

... existence, and miserable death of Joh l Merray of Broughton. '1 I No lip of me or mine comes after Broughton's ! ' said the Whig father of Sir Walter Scott, as he threw out of the window the teacup from which the traitor had drun1k. Macdonnell of Barisdale ...

HORACE WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS OF GEORGE III.*

... for their object the rerovery of solmO portion of that power ,which had been lost to tho Crown by the long ascendoncy of the Whig famiilies. On all this the volumues throw ni uliei light, whilo theoy abound in personal sketches, 11illiant ascoliluts of ...

The Music Halls

... pond at Brightling-park, near Rob.erts. L brid~, Sussex.The bird measured 9Wt. brde, Sussex. 10in. from tip to tip of its Whigs, Sft. 9in. from beak to tail, and 3tf. round the body, while the bill was l5in, in length, and opened to the width of l7in ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... 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 ...

Biographics and Beminiscences

... for some years the young couple lived on the Continent at different Embassies. In England the Cravens had the entry to the Whig houses, and frequently saw Lord Palmerston. Mr. Craven resigned his diplomatic post in Germany on the death ot his father in ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1894
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1411 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture