Spirit of Peers and People, a National Tragi-Comedy [In Verse] by the Author of 'The Exposition of the False Medium'.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1834 Excerpt: ... so weak and ignorant as to suffer this to continue to the end of time? Edw. Clear. I fear that bribery wins in the long run. Love of power, in some shape or other, is natural to all. Then mark the unity, concentration, and decision of the Blocks, compared with the hesitative demurs and half-measures, the paltering between the three-quarters and the whole of a thing, among the Wigs; and with the vacillating dissatisfactions and veering attacks of many of the Radicals, who, at important moments, will often hang back from the common cause, or lie in ambuscade from each other, and rise unseasonably, and sometimes mischievously, at the incalculable signal of one man's private humours and opinions. But the Wigs are now in a very dangerous intermediate position. They stand with a rock in front of them, and a tempest behind. John Earnest. This is the consequence and punishment of their want of a full heart in their cause, and a masculine will. But events and circumstances, which come crowding slowly on as dwarfs, now increase their bulk with their progress; so that we shall soon find a column of giants struggling in a pass for pigmies, and expanding like steam? The world never had such a chance before. Why, who's this! Enter Fat Jaques, foaming with rage. Fat Jaq. Make room! make room! I shall burst! Oh that I could run into the midst of all my enemies, for I am like an overloaded gun! no need to swallow a match--their presence would make me explode! I am as a man that is ruined, and ruined, and ruined, and beyond redemption--nay, andd am that very man himself! Oh, sirs, to think--to think, I say--which is madness--that the greatest fool among all the Blocks should yet have wit enough to cheat Fat Jaques with his eyes open, and his very wife in the room, and defrau...