“The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land,
In England there shall be dear bread—in Ireland, sword and brand;
And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,
So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,
Of the fine old English Tory days;
Hail to the coming time!”

— Charles Dickens

The Fine Old English Gentleman (1841)

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English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870

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