When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.