... find the Pont Street Legend, embroidered, in dainty books by- gentlewomen called The Lure of Old Brompton. A little later the Whigs adopt it as history, the L.C.C. sticks a tablet on the fajade, and there we are. Tonic To drama-lovers temporarily stunned ...

... his death, even consulted his barbe during a shave, on the propriety of ordering lhat famous requiem for himself which th Whigs have so garbled and roman ticised. What Charles's barber (who was very reasonable on this point) charged is not known. Some ...

... for Weimar and Berlin, drifted back, had better treatment, and spent his last five years in a manner very disconcert ing to Whigs, his dying words being I have lived en philosophe, I die a Christian. Thus the restless old rascal left the stage, penitent ...

... that the Governor of the 'astille received the Mask with marked respect, hat in hand, so that the Mask cannot have been (as Whigs assert) an obscure Italian diph iat named Mattioli, who doublecrossed Loui XIV (2), that the Mask was strongly guar' -d, and ...

... staying with her young family, who were enjoying the seaside. They were in a large party which included Mr. and Mrs. Francis Whig- ham. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Berington brought Mrs. Kennedy and her daughter Diana, who was dancing with Tim Berington, who is in ...

... II. Wyndham Lewis IT takes the Reform and the Nat. Lib. Club Committees only a couple of weeks to banish the smell of warm Whigs from their marble halls, we observe, whereas most of the other leading clubs have closed for a month for cleaning and redecoration ...

... letters, memoirs, essays, poetry, drama, diaries and State papers innumerable. Here are mighty battles being fought abroad; Whigs, Tories, Jacobites intriguing at home. The personal jealousies and rivalry of statesmen, the quarrels of various ladies round ...

... precise contrary is the truth, and we deem Wells to err damnably. We love Whigs. Their earnestness uplifts and braces us. They are dear fellows, dear persons. One or two charming Whigs are close friends of ours, valued advisers, deep thinkers, candidates ...

... seem to be a Jacobite Tory, not only at odds with the Whigs and moderate T ories of the eighteenth century, but tracing all the troubles that have ever happened to us since, to those dogs of Whigs; a Johnsonian attitude, not easy without a good deal of ...

... Bagge of Slate Composed Almost Entirely of Coale. Thousands of leaflets under such cum brous, if explanatory names, against Whigs or Dissenters, against Tories and Highflyers, were issued from the zealous pens of scribblers two centuries ago, and it is ...

... laughter- maker in his own age, and so notable a figure in society, or at any rate, the society of Holland House, where the Whigs were gathered together. For his fun and ridicule were rhetorical and cumu lative, stroke following- stroke to a pinnacle of ...

... seems to us not only a very natural Liberal cultus, sprung from That Awful Repres sion, but the missing explanation of all Whig history, of Froude's worship of Henry VIII and Carlyle's worship of Frederick the Great. Does this bore you Vety well, a song ...