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... Lehzen, that governess-in-chief of all the governesses that ever there were, who survived the downfall of Lord Melbourne's Whig Ministry and the coming into power of Tory Sir Robert Peel by more than a year, and then faded away to (Continued on p. 504) ...
... at any rate, the precious memory of a Victorian upbringing in the still-living traditions of the great Whig days. The private language of the Whigs was still heard on the lips of the oldest generation. Gold was goold, lilac lay lock, bracelet brasslet ...
... champions Metternich, and the tone of the whole book is declared in the dedication The offering of a reviving Tory to a surviving Whig. Mr. Cecil is out to discredit democracy, and finds in Metternich and his policy a strong argument. It is a pity that a work ...
... subject for indiscriminate white washing, but that he was the victim of a good deal of malicious blackwashing on the part of Whig historians-- as well as by Thackeray --cannot for one moment be denied by the fair-minded. It is well to remember, as Mr. rulford ...
... bombast) he has every chance, but succeeds in eluding them all. Even Johnson, with his animus against those pestilential Whigs, knew when to remain silent upon so unstable a reputation. And now, lest we be surfeited with the great lives of great men ...
... Melbourne and Queen Victoria's most respected adviser. In his youth he spent his time in brilliant and cultured company, but it was Whig company, and not renowned either for depth of feeling or soberness of opinion. His life was that of any young man of fashion: ...
... vices were equally in the grand manner, and poetry sold better than the most sensational fiction. That was the great time of Whig power, when Fox declared that he hated war, when Sheridan proclaimed the right of America to self-determina tion, when Grey ...
... away. Lady Bessborough and her sister, the famous Duchess of Devonshire, were, for more than twenty years, the leaders of Whig society and the inti mates of such personalities as Charles James Fox, Canning, and Madame RScamier. Miss Ethel Colburn Mayne's ...