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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
her of my heart, knows with what reluctance I go upon this service. As time passed on, the hostility between the two parties exceeded all bounds of courteous intercourse. The social distinction was constantly widening, and so was the religious antagonism. Waller could be allowed to joke with Goring and sentimentalize with Hopton,--for Waller was a gentleman, though a rebel; but it was a different thing when the Puritan gentlemen were seen to be gradually superseded by Puritan clowns. Strafford had early complained of your Prynnes, Pims, and Bens, with the rest of that generation of odd names and natures. But what were these to the later brood, whose plebeian quality Mr. Buckle has so laboriously explored,--Goffe the grocer and Whalley the tailor, Pride the drayman and Venner the cooper, culminating at last in Noll Cromwell the Lrewer? The formidable force of these upstarts only imnbittered the aversion. If odious when vanquished, what must they have been as victors? For if i