Note 27 — Chapter XIII · PEN AND PLATFORM POLITICS
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Some of these names were celebrated in verses that Trollope loved to quote:
“Mr. Leech made a speech; Learned, terse, and strong. Mr. Hart on the other part, Was glib and neat, but wrong. Mr. Parker made that darker, Which was dark enough without. Mr. Cook cited a book, The Chancellor said, ‘I doubt.’”