The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1Samuel Bagster, 1902 |
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... speak , did she not move , Now Pallas - now the Queen of Love ! ” The rest of the poem is very indifferent , and it appears strange that lines of such singular beauty should have been introduced . Amongst the light trifles published ...
... speak , did she not move , Now Pallas - now the Queen of Love ! ” The rest of the poem is very indifferent , and it appears strange that lines of such singular beauty should have been introduced . Amongst the light trifles published ...
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... speak to me , to the consequences of which you yourself were witness . He immediately pretended to be dying , and by that artifice very nearly made me really so . You know how ill I was for a long time . At last he wrote me word , that ...
... speak to me , to the consequences of which you yourself were witness . He immediately pretended to be dying , and by that artifice very nearly made me really so . You know how ill I was for a long time . At last he wrote me word , that ...
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... speaking prologues and epilogues better than any actor of the day , rendering them , when written with spirit , little dramas perfect in themselves ; his delivery of the couplet was in the true spirit of poetry , and , without any ...
... speaking prologues and epilogues better than any actor of the day , rendering them , when written with spirit , little dramas perfect in themselves ; his delivery of the couplet was in the true spirit of poetry , and , without any ...
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... speaking . Yet , when Sheridan entered upon his career , he by no means gave promise of becoming so splendid an orator . There were , twenty years ago , at Bath , many who remembered him there as a young man walking about in a cocked ...
... speaking . Yet , when Sheridan entered upon his career , he by no means gave promise of becoming so splendid an orator . There were , twenty years ago , at Bath , many who remembered him there as a young man walking about in a cocked ...
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... speaking , for his reputation had prepared for him a willing audience . He made , however , but little impression . It appeared to those who were anxious to judge of his real capa- bilities that nature never intended him for an orator ...
... speaking , for his reputation had prepared for him a willing audience . He made , however , but little impression . It appeared to those who were anxious to judge of his real capa- bilities that nature never intended him for an orator ...
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Page 3 - Opera), the best farce (the Critic — it is only too good for a farce), and the best Address (Monologue on Garrick), and, to crown all, delivered the very best Oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country.
Page 138 - Nay, I will say more — flattered and encouraged by the Right Honourable Gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in the Alchemist.
Page 303 - If he is as deserving and sincere as you have represented him to me, he will never give you up so. Yet, consider, Lydia, you tell me he is but an ensign, and you have thirty thousand pounds.
Page 310 - Madam, I will handle the subject prudently. Well, I must leave you ; and let me beg you, Mrs. Malaprop, to enforce this matter roundly to the girl. Take my advice — keep a tight hand : if she rejects this proposal, clap her under lock and key ; and if you were just to let the servants forget to bring her dinner for three or four days, you can't conceive how she'd come about.
Page 396 - Then let us study to preserve it so : and while Hope pictures to us a flattering scene of future bliss, let us deny its pencil those colours which are too bright to be lasting. When hearts deserving happiness would unite their fortunes, Virtue would crown them with an unfading garland of modest hurtless flowers : but ill-judging Passion will force the gaudier rose into the wreath, whose thorn offends them when its leaves are dropped ! \Exeunt omnes.
Page 389 - Then pray keep it fast, while you have it. Acres. Sir Lucius— I doubt it is going — yes— my valour is certainly going ! — it is sneaking off ! — I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands ! Sir Luc.
Page 92 - I can't make her love me, there is great satisfaction in quarrelling with her ; and I think she never appears to such advantage as when she is doing everything in her power to plague me.
Page 91 - ... life before my friends had done wishing me joy. Yet I chose with caution — a girl bred wholly in the country, who never knew luxury beyond one silk gown, nor dissipation above the annual gala of a race ball.
Page 324 - I hope your prayers may be heard, with all my heart. Well, then, Jack, I have been considering that I am so strong and hearty, I may continue to plague you a long time. Now, Jack, I am sensible that the income of your commission, and what I have hitherto allowed you, is but a small pittance for a lad of your spirit. Capt. A. Sir, you are very good. Sir A. And it is my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world.
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