Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 |
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... taste for true happiness and virtue . Besides her two plays , The Disco- very and The Dupe , -the former of which Gar- rick pronounced to be " one of the best comedies he ever read , ” — she wrote a comedy also , called The Trip to Bath ...
... taste for true happiness and virtue . Besides her two plays , The Disco- very and The Dupe , -the former of which Gar- rick pronounced to be " one of the best comedies he ever read , ” — she wrote a comedy also , called The Trip to Bath ...
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... taste is said to have been of a purity almost perfect , combining what are seldom seen together , that critical judgment which is alive to the errors of genius , with the warm sensibility that deeply feels its beauties . At the same ...
... taste is said to have been of a purity almost perfect , combining what are seldom seen together , that critical judgment which is alive to the errors of genius , with the warm sensibility that deeply feels its beauties . At the same ...
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... taste was silently improved , and that he knew well the little which he did know . He was removed from school too soon by his father , who was the intimate friend of Sumner , and whom I often met at his house . Sumner had a fine voice ...
... taste was silently improved , and that he knew well the little which he did know . He was removed from school too soon by his father , who was the intimate friend of Sumner , and whom I often met at his house . Sumner had a fine voice ...
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... taste I am accustomed to consider perfect , and , were he living , his admir- ation * " " + During the greater part of Richard's stay at Harrow , his father had been compelled by the embarrassment of his affairs to reside with the ...
... taste I am accustomed to consider perfect , and , were he living , his admir- ation * " " + During the greater part of Richard's stay at Harrow , his father had been compelled by the embarrassment of his affairs to reside with the ...
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... , as Halhed boasts in one of his letters , did not amount to thirty - eight . They were both abounding in wit and spirits , and as sanguine as the consciousness of talent and youth could make I. 1770 . them ; both inspired with a taste 16.
... , as Halhed boasts in one of his letters , did not amount to thirty - eight . They were both abounding in wit and spirits , and as sanguine as the consciousness of talent and youth could make I. 1770 . them ; both inspired with a taste 16.
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