John Morley: “Gladstone judged it, to the peace of Ireland, and so irreconcilable with public feeling in England and Scotland.”

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.