"Here richly, with ridiculous display, / The Politician's corpse was laid away. / While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged / I wept : for I had longed to see him hanged."
— Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) "Epitaph on the Politician Himself," The London Mercury (November 1922)
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| Caricature of Whig politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan by William Dent (June 4, 1788) |
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