 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1821 - 430 pages
...Surface ? Lady Sneer. Pshaw! — there's no possibility of being witty without a little ill nature : the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. — What 's your opinion, Mr. Surface ? Joseph S. To be sure, madam ; that conversation, where the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 566 pages
...innocent. " Lady S. Nay, you must allow that many people of sense and wit have this foible — Sir Benjamin Backbite, for instance. " Mar. He may, but...for granted, they all speak as ill-naturedly of me. 21? deserve it — for my part, I shall only suppose myself illspoken of, when I am conscious I deserve... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 462 pages
...innocent. '' Lady S. Nay, you must allow that many people of sense and wit have this foible —- Sir Benjamin Backbite, for instance. ''Mar. He may, but...whom I never saw in my life ; for I hate to abuse a friend—but I take it for granted, they all speak as ill-naturedly of me. " Mar. Then you are, very... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1825 - 346 pages
...mischief. Lady Sneer. Pshaw ! — there's no possibility of being witty without a littleill nature: the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. — What's your opinion, Mr. Surface ? JosepliS. To be sure, madam; that conversation, where the spirit... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 pages
...the innocent. "Lady S. Nay, you must allow that many people of sense and wit have this foible — Sir Benjamin Backbite, for instance. " Mar. He may, but...ill-natured thing, I have not the least malice against the pjerson; and, indeed, it may be of one whom I never saw in my life; for I hate to abuse a friend —... | |
 | George Daniel - 1828 - 412 pages
...mischief. Lady S. (L.) Psnaw ! — there's no possibility of being witty without a little ill nature : the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.— What's your opinion, Mr. Surface ? Joseph S. (R.) To be sure, madam ; that conversation, where the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 504 pages
...the innocent. " Lady S. Nay, you must allow that many people of sense and wit have this foible— Sir Benjamin Backbite , for instance. " Mar. He may, but...an ill-natured thing, I have not the least malice againt the person ; and , indeed , it may be of one whom I never saw in my life ; for I hate to abuse... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan - 1835 - 228 pages
...mischief. LADY S. (L.) Pshaw! — there's no possibility of being witty without a little ill nature: the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. — What's your opinion , Mr. Surface ? JOSEPH S- (R.) To be sure , madam ; that conversation , where... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 182 pages
...the mischief. Lady Sneer. Psha ! there's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature : the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. — What's your opinion, Mr. Surface ? Jos. Surf. To be sure, madam ; that conversation, where the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...mischief. /.'"'•/ & Pshaw! — there's no pomibility of being witty without a little ill nature : the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. What's your opinion, Mr Surface I Joseph S. To be sure, madam ; that conversation, where the spirit... | |
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Well, I'll not debate how far scandal may be allowable ; but in a man, I am sure, it is always contemptible. We... 
