Life of Richard Brinsley SheridanW. Scott, 1890 - 177 pages |
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Page 23
... recording in his diary that he had spent the morning with Mrs. Legge , and that their chief topic of conversation was the reasons for and against being acquainted with Mrs. Sheridan . In this instance it is not uncharitable to surmise ...
... recording in his diary that he had spent the morning with Mrs. Legge , and that their chief topic of conversation was the reasons for and against being acquainted with Mrs. Sheridan . In this instance it is not uncharitable to surmise ...
Page 61
... recorded the Treasurer of Drury Lane in 1779 , " damped the new pieces . " It has retained its extraordinary popularity through- out the present century . It has been revived times without number in England and the United States , and ...
... recorded the Treasurer of Drury Lane in 1779 , " damped the new pieces . " It has retained its extraordinary popularity through- out the present century . It has been revived times without number in England and the United States , and ...
Page 104
... ? ' He would ask , ' What religious zeal or frenzy has added to the mad despair and horrors of war ? The ruin is unlike anything that appears recorded in any age . It looks neither like the barbarities of men nor the judgment of 104 LIFE ...
... ? ' He would ask , ' What religious zeal or frenzy has added to the mad despair and horrors of war ? The ruin is unlike anything that appears recorded in any age . It looks neither like the barbarities of men nor the judgment of 104 LIFE ...
Page 108
... recorded that " the bone rose repeatedly in his throat , and tears in his eyes . " But at the close of the first day's speech in Westminster Hall , he remarked , with much acuteness , that " Sheridan's flowers are produced by great ...
... recorded that " the bone rose repeatedly in his throat , and tears in his eyes . " But at the close of the first day's speech in Westminster Hall , he remarked , with much acuteness , that " Sheridan's flowers are produced by great ...
Page 119
... recorded her impressions at some length . But Sheridan's wit on this occasion con- fined itself to the remark that ladies should not write verses until they were past receiving them , and his time was chiefly spent in paying elaborate ...
... recorded her impressions at some length . But Sheridan's wit on this occasion con- fined itself to the remark that ladies should not write verses until they were past receiving them , and his time was chiefly spent in paying elaborate ...
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Page 143 - They offer us their protection; yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs — covering and devouring them ! They call on us to barter all of good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate chance of something better which they promise. Be our plain answer this: — The throne we honor is the people's choice; the laws we reverence are our brave fathers...
Page 36 - Jack, there never can be but one man in the world whom a truly modest and delicate woman ought to pair with in a country-dance; and, even then, the rest of the couples should be her great-uncles and aunts!
Page 72 - I'm in a rare humour to listen to other people's distresses! I sha'n't be able to bestow even a benevolent sentiment on Stanley. — So! here he comes, and Rowley with him. I must try to recover myself, and put a little charity into my face, however.
Page 166 - But should there be to whom the fatal blight Of failing wisdom yields a base delight — Men who exult when minds of heavenly tone Jar in the music which was born their own — Still let them pause — ah ! little do they know That what to them seemed vice might be but woe.
Page 123 - Mr. Sheridan has a very fine figure, and a good though I don't think a handsome face. He is tall, and very upright, and his appearance and address are at once manly and fashionable, without the smallest tincture of foppery or modish graces. In short, I like him vastly, and think him every way worthy his beautiful companion.
Page 105 - Begums' machinations to produce all this !' Why did they rise ? Because they were people in human shape ; because patience under the detested tyranny of man is rebellion to the sovereignty of God ; because allegiance to that Power that gives us the forms of men commands us to maintain the rights of men. And never yet was this truth dismissed from the human heart — never in any time, in any age — never in any clime, where rude man ever had any social feeling, •or where corrupt refinement had...
Page 153 - H. with thousands upon thousands a year, some of it either presently derived, or inherited in sinecure or acquisitions from the public money, to boast of their patriotism and keep aloof from temptation ; but they do not know from what temptation those have kept aloof who had equal pride, at least equal talents, and not unequal passions, and nevertheless knew not in the course of their lives what it was to have a shilling of their own.
Page 120 - Whose humour, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Played round every subject, and shone as it played — • Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade...
Page 87 - Well, if they had kept to that, I should not have been such an enemy to the stage; there was some edification to be got from those pieces, Mr. Sneer ! Sneer. I am quite of your opinion, Mrs. Dangle: the theatre, in proper hands, might certainly be made the school of morality ; but now, I am sorry to say it, people seem to go there principally for their entertainment ! Mrs.