TheVictorians

"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


At this moment, the Prime Minister, now past seventy, decided to seek ...

At this moment, the Prime Minister, now past seventy, decided to seek the ease of the Upper Chamber, and Gladstone, issuing from his lettered retirement,' leapt into life as the leader of the Liberals, against the Turk and Disraeli.

The clash of armies on

Rhodope was echoed in a

personal contest as hot as the encounter of Pitt and

Fox.

Like fabled gods, their mighty war; Shook realms and nations in its jar: and never perhaps have Englishmen contrived to find themselves so greatly excited over issues with which so few of them were concerned.

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He published Homeric Synchronisms in 1876 and was engaged on Retribution (the ...

He published Homeric Synchronisms in 1876 and was engaged on Retribution (the theme of the Bamtown Lectures for 1875). It is pleasant to fi

He is also credited with a sense of humor, and it must ...