"The affair," Hervey adds, "grew as serious as that of the Greens and the Blues under Justinian at Constantinople; an anti-Handelist was looked upon as an anti-courtier, and voting against the Court in Parliament was hardly a less Remissible or more venial sin than speaking against Handel or going to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Opera."
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy