Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 - 602 pages |
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... interest too valuable on such a subject to be withheld : - " DEAR SIR , Hatton , August 3. 1818 . " With the aid of a scribe 1 sit down to fulfil my promise about Mr. Sheridan . There was little in his boyhood worth communication . He ...
... interest too valuable on such a subject to be withheld : - " DEAR SIR , Hatton , August 3. 1818 . " With the aid of a scribe 1 sit down to fulfil my promise about Mr. Sheridan . There was little in his boyhood worth communication . He ...
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... interest in the life of the latter . Their first joint production was a farce , or rather play , in three acts , called " Jupiter , " written in imitation of the burletta of Midas , whose popularity seems to have tempted into its wake a ...
... interest in the life of the latter . Their first joint production was a farce , or rather play , in three acts , called " Jupiter , " written in imitation of the burletta of Midas , whose popularity seems to have tempted into its wake a ...
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... interest . To this period of Mr. Sheridan's life we are indebted for most of those elegant love - verses , which are so well known and so often quoted . The lines , " Uncouth is this moss - covered grotto of stone , " were addressed to ...
... interest . To this period of Mr. Sheridan's life we are indebted for most of those elegant love - verses , which are so well known and so often quoted . The lines , " Uncouth is this moss - covered grotto of stone , " were addressed to ...
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... interest than that of having been written at such a period , will not , perhaps , be unwelcome to the reader : - " MY DEAR RICHARD , " Dublin , Dec. 7th , 1771 . " How could you be so wrong - headed as to commence cold bathing at such a ...
... interest than that of having been written at such a period , will not , perhaps , be unwelcome to the reader : - " MY DEAR RICHARD , " Dublin , Dec. 7th , 1771 . " How could you be so wrong - headed as to commence cold bathing at such a ...
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... this time in London , making arrangements for the departure of his favourite , Charles , who , through the interest of Mr. Wheat- ley , an old friend of the family , had been ap- ― pointed Secretary to the Embassy in Sweden . Miss 86.
... this time in London , making arrangements for the departure of his favourite , Charles , who , through the interest of Mr. Wheat- ley , an old friend of the family , had been ap- ― pointed Secretary to the Embassy in Sweden . Miss 86.
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