text:  I admitted the ability the occasional intelligence and perhaps even the patriotism of the cabinet; but in those reveries (the natural refuge from a long debate ) memory so often peopled the Treasury Bench with the forms of Pitt and his distinguished coadjutors and so completely filled my ear with his sonorous periods and high-toned principles that when I was roused to the reality I felt as those who have seen some great performer in one of Shakspeare's characters until no excellence of his successor can embody the conception once more