... III IPS The Queen of the Whigs With Lord Holland I could go to hell, but with Lady Holland I would not go to heaven, was the sentiment of Ugo Foscolo with regard to the third Lord Holland and the lady who was Queen of the Whigs for the last century's ...

... of him.' 3rd WHIG.-' Confouind tie fellow, he's only envious.' 4th WHIG.-' I'm determined not to quit.' 5th WHIG.-' I wish I had his head in Chancery.' ...

... formula. Line Chaps interested (purely non-politically) in Whigs have probably heard of the Whig Line, a deeply-incised furrow from nose- wings to jaw, acquired by all women married to Whigs, and caused by tight compression of the lips while listening ...

... character or other as a ftinking Whig, or even a very vile and ftinking Whig. This refers to the smell already mentioned, peculiar to Whigs (Tories smell of verbena). We know a man whose nose can tell him at once when a Whig has been in a drawipg-room. You ...

... Street was the fashionable Whig club when Whiggery was fashionable and when the word, reform, meant something very much milder than it does to-day, or perhaps because the word is at the moment somewhat nearer to the doors of the Whig aristocracy than it seemed ...

... person. If you want great Whig philosophers they are there by the thousand you will find them at every street corner. If you want Whig historians you have only to go into the first schoolroom, and in every locker you will find a Whig text-book. The Tory party ...

... the Unionist party have pooled their allegiance in Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Long was, and remains, the Tory, as distinct from the Whig-Unionist, candidate for Mr. Balfour s mantle. For our part, we believe Mr. Long would have been the strongest party leader ...

... boiled down for the oil, or whatnot. There was never any Whig-shortage, because Whigs spawn so freely. Footnote Tory M.P.s of the same mid-Victorian period, hard men to hounds, often provided leading Whig hostesses with a similar problem by their after-dinner ...

... once, And leave the Whig waiting, without bite or sup, While the Tory alone keeps the shuttlecock up. But the Whig, white with passion, at last gets a hit, And then makes the Tory in turn stop a bit; Who grumbles and grewls, as the Whig ceased to storm, ...

... once, And leave the Whig waiting, without bite or sup, While the Tory alone keeps the shuttlecock up. But the Whig, white with passion, at last gets a hit, And then makes the Tory in turn stop a bit. Who grumbles and growls, as the Whig ceased to storm) ...

... shifting of opinions by which the staunch Whig of one generation found him self stranded and left behind as a Tory by the next gene ration. Once upon a time we called the advanced guard of politicians New Whigs, now we call them Radicals. Reform was the ...

... born Whig, oily from the cradle and spurning all the other holiday lectures offered to the little ones by the kindly science boys. One can't blame the Civil Engineers for encouraging this gens lubricata. Maybe they don't even know that tiny Whigs are bred ...