When we went with the winds in their blowing, When Nature and we were peers, And we seemed to share in the flowing Of the inexhaustible years?
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
This, broadly speaking, meant the supremacy of the class which really controlled Parliament: of the aristocratic class, led by the peers but including the body of squires and landed gentlemen, and including also a growing infusion of 'moneyed' men, who represented the rising commercial and manufacturing interests.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
peers-Byron, for example-have occasionally written books; and more than one person of quality has, like Fox, kept up the interest in classical literature which he acquired at a public school, and added a charm to his parliamentary oratory.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen