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CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE, THE SCOTTISH HORACE WALPOLE

... Wyvth, Certainly, numberless poetical beauties. Mil- ton was a Whig, and, in my mind, an Atheist. I am persuaded his poem was composed to apologiss for the devil, who cer- tainly was the first Whig on record. He entered at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1798, ...

THE NEW JOHN GILPIN

... th What thing upon his back had got In Did wonder more and more. on It Away went Robert-neck or nought oe Past Radical and Whig; oi Ee little thought when he began If His bill would be so big, di The Peeg did bark, the Herald scream'd, Out spoke the farmers ...

Selections

... ages our sorrows shall tell;e Bernfd by the Land we thought noble and just, Blesied home of ouor Fathers farewzeh c CASSIUS, A WHIG. S Preceded by their priests, and followed ty their sons, they proereded tothe sepulelhres ottheirfathers, and Niler~l vineatlmt- ...

Poetry

... alluded to. I THE RETROSPECT. to bef When Pitt was Premier, well-a.day! des I chanted To Paeans. ing And held the loftiest Whigs at bay, he As well as base Plebeians; anc I fill'd old Jacobins with awe, ens Distorting fact and reason, pre Whene'er 'twas ...

Original

... dormant i'th' land; p But if all the world tells us not stories, The wind scatter'd seed fro' his fist, For in soarting up Whigs with the Tories, Its thought that some Tories have miss, Tol de rol. d Chandos has a plough rather shallow, 0 And he's ploughed ...

Original

... misguided force Iay set the fram- or-k or the world ablaze: Cursed that the reins are held in such an hour By the weak hands of Whig apostacy. Thereforo tho land hathl need that men like thee Should sp3aktheunvarnishedtruth,andspeak it forth with power There ...

LIVERPOOL ACADEMY & ART INSTITUTE

... unreasonable, their keepers emptied the water on the prison floors, saying, 'If they were obliged to bring water for the canting Whigs, they were not bound to afford them the use of bowls or pitchers gratis.' In this prison, which is still termed the Whiga' ...

TABLE TALK

... In the whole community, has baen, and is at the present moment, Mr. S. R. Graves, the Mayor. All classes of politicians, Whigs, Tories, and Radicals—the ladies, too, that section of society which rules all classes—are unanimous in sounding the praises ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... thoroughly depend. He, however, calculates on their having a decided majority by tbe aid 's of the Stanley section of the Whigs, who are to be cono n, ciliated by real and popular measures of reform. Even Fraser now advocates reform; but of such an advocate ...

REVIEWS

... is par. ticularly seotn in the aecount she gives of the opening of the trial of Warren Hastings, a man singled out by the of whig cabal ns one to be hunted down; his life struck at by his eniemies, his coffers ransacked to emptiness by his W protectors ...

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

... have been levelled; thus exterminating, liv banishing, and perhap . lig, three-ftiturths of the labonring classes o- Ireland. Whig and Tory Governments axe all the a i same to the poor Irish; or, as an Irlebman once said. com- co- Paring the persecution ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... The paper, however, on the Scottish Jacobites and their poetry contains some highly-absurd state- ments, such as that the Whigs in the reigns of the first and second Georges were paid for their poems by the Government, while we could well have spared ...