... out over the park from the vast serenity and composure of that great south front, was all the grandeur and the greed of the Whig aristocracy of the 18th century. Had 1 been tempted to move to another point of vantage, I could have seen what remained of ...

... these alliances, such as the earliest between Elizabeth Webster and the Lord Holland, who focused the activities of the great Whig aristocrats and wits on Holland House in the days of Charles James Fox and Sidney Smith, were intensely happy. Others very ...

... Savoy, and led Garibaldi, and Cavour necessary to paint them in as black as those in whi ...

... than a Roman general’s triumph. But later on Pope has some hard things to say about ivy; as a decidedly vocal critic of the Whig Government, he was most uncommonly rude to official laureates and in 1729 suggests that ivy should be entwined with vine leaves ...

... nothing of the working of a Parliamentary System, and he exaggerated the strength of the Opposition; nor did he realise that the Whigs were merely using him as a stick with which to belabour the Government. When Lord Liverpool brought in a Bill to authorise ...