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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Palmerston. (search)
And dauntless game cocks symbolize their lord." Every village ale-house echoes the belief that the Premier "Pam" eats nothing but good Southdown mutton and drinks nothing but good English beer; and as he canters along Rotton Row or down Piccadilly, there is something pleasant in the pride with which each passer turns and says, "There goes our 'Pam.'" At home he is the delight and stay of the social circle: Nor doubt nor toil his freshness can destroy, But time still leaves all Eton in the boy. In the conduct of his administrative department he is despotic and severe, and cannot for a moment brook the slightest contradiction or control. He is troubled with one or two singular prejudices. For instance, he will not permit smoking in any portion of his office, or allow any officer of his department to write with a steel pen. As a speaker, he is, except on rare occasions, clumsy and confused in the construction of his sentences, and, hesitating and "haw haw-y" in t
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
adieu, For I maun cross the main, my dear, For I maun cross the main." The boys having gone to England against their will, and the men of their own free choice, it is obvious that no such obligation could exist to remain abroad in the first case as in the last. --Besides, all that the boys could pick up in England would be intellectual cultivation, whereas their seniors have the solid advantage of saving their bacon and solacing their inner man with better cheer than is to be found at Eton and Harrow. The spectacle of these exiled patriots discussing huge surloins of beef and quaffing vast goblets of ale, while their countrymen are hungering and bleeding at home, must satisfy the world that the South is not altogether that race of impulsive and hot-headed abstractionists which it is often represented. We dare say that these well-fed exiles have their trials too — just the trials which maddened the more sensitive youngsters and drove them back to their country. --No doubt the
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