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“... he called his ‘delicious little pipe organ’ That treasure of his revolting sensorium III Miss Emily Jones Nespith of Roanoke Lets fall her precious lace hanky But the gallant lieutenant takes little notice His attentions elsewhere Chiefly, in the direction of one Laura Grey Dwight Who, all agreed, had ‘blossomed’ overnight But the musk notes of ...”

“... This late 19th-century Unionist renovation of Conservatism is one of the principal subjects of Emily Jones’s surprising and persuasive study of the transformation of Burke, the late 18th-century Anglo-Irish pamphleteer, from a Whig who extolled the importance of party connection into a Tory, indeed into the defining philosopher of High ...”