They saw through a magnifying glass of such power that the leech appeared to them a leviathan.

It ought to have occurred to Middleton that possibly the delusion might be in his own vision and not in theirs.

Lewis and the counsellors who surrounded him were far indeed from loving William.

But they did not hate him with that mad hatred which raged in the breasts of his English enemies.

Middleton was one of the wisest and most moderate of the Jacobites.