...opening prepares the mind for the sublime sensations suitable to the dignity of a subject so exalted : Above the rest, majestically great, Behold the infant...stare : A kingdom trusted to a school-boy's care. It is to be observed to the credit of our author, that, although his political principles are unquestionably...

...with a fertile theme of ridicule and comment. " The Rolliad," describing him in 1784, exclaims : " Above the rest, majestically great, Behold the infant...imputations of personal ambition, rapacity, and confiscation which Fox's bill had occasioned: the consent of the directors to its introduction, and afterwards of...

...with a fertile theme of ridicule and comment. " The Rolliad," describing him in 1784, exclaims : " Above the rest, majestically great, Behold the infant...nations stare ; A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care I" Early in July, this "schoolboy" introduced his " East India Bill ;" and nearly the whole month was...

...of Rockingkam, vol. ii. p. 295. And Wm. Pitt, we are told, was designated " the boy-minister," — " A sight to make surrounding nations stare, A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." — ROLLIAD. Nevertheless, Mr. Pitt far eclipsed many of the seniles who followed him. After all, however,...

...of modern days ; In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight tu make surrounding nations etare; A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care !" Early in...imputations of personal ambition, rapacity, and confiscation which Fox's bill had occasioned : the consent of the directors to its introduction, and afterwards...

...allowed his words to go unretracted, and, in less than two years, he displayed, in his own person — " A sight to make surrounding nations stare — A kingdom trusted to a school-boy's care " f The other candidate, to whom I would allude, is Admiral Keppel, who had represented the Borough...

...hundred ways with two, Gimlets they are, to bore you through and through." Again of Mr. Pitt : — " Above the rest, majestically great, Behold the infant...nations stare, A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." From Mr. George Ellis, too, came those admirable verses on the Marquis of Graham, who had incautiously...

...his own ambition." — Parl. Hist., xxiv. 277. In the Rolliad, his youth was thus ridiculed: — " A sight to make surrounding nations stare, — A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." of the Land-tax Bill for two days, in order, as Mr. Fox avowed, that it might not " go out of their...

...some difficulty in finding a good ground of attack upon his conduct. But then there was his age : " A sight to make surrounding nations stare, A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." As regards his friends, the authors of the Rolliad by no means confined themselves to political attacks....

...year later, and we have in the Rolliad this couplet, commemorative of Mr. Pitt as jeune premier :— " A sight to make surrounding nations stare, A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care." But let us vary the range of our illustrations, such as they are. Scott's veteran crusader, Ralph Genvil,...