Great Victorians; Memories and Personalities (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: thoroughly to clean it, and made the Bishop smack his lips with delight?Social discourses on Dr. Johnson's text about the devil as the first Whig?At daggers drawn with Jeffrey, Brougham, and all concerned with the Edinburgh Review? A Bishop after the Duke of Wellington's own heart?At Buckingham Palace with the Duke as Oxford Chancellor to congratulate Queen Victoria on her marriage?A little dialogue on punctuality as the politeness of princes?The Bishop before the looking-glass at his palace?The episcopal sugar-plums and picture-books?The Bishop and the hunting parsons?The Bishop's gracious way with an Evangelical clergyman about the " Shebbear rogues" ? Henry of Exeter's table-talk as the rehearsal of his speeches in Parliament?The Bishop and Lord Derby understand each other about the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill?Landor's " Belial Bishop"?Henry stands for damnation, not condemnation?The gamecock of the aristocratic Tories?The house party at Mount Edgcumbe and what came of it? The conqueror of Waterloo and Henry of Exeter meet? The Bishop lionizes the Duke over Exeter Cathedral?The Duke's account of it given to the Rev. G. R. Gleig?The dark and fearful face in the bath-chair?Henry of Exeter's doctrines and influence carried into Somerset by the Rev. M. F. Sadler of Bridgwater, who exercised on Archdeacon Denison something of the same influence as Archdeacon Freeman exercised on Bishop Phillpotts?The Archdeacon's brother, the Speaker, on " St. George without the drag-on "? The Archdeacon's own account of his conversion to Ritualism?The Vicar of East Brent and the school inspector? The latter welcomed with " Old Daddy Longlegs wouldn't say his prayers "?The first Duke of Wellington as a West of England worthy?Restoration of the Wellington pillar on the Blackdown Hills?The Duke's West...