... 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 ...

... attitude towards the whole reign is sufficiently indicated by the ironical paragraph with which he ushers it in The period of Whigs in clover was coming to an end. A new King had arisen to govern faithfully the English people, thanks to a dear mother, a dear ...