Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 |
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Page 251 - the minute attention which he paid to the structure of his sentences. Lady Teazle, in her scene with Sir Peter in the Second Act, says : " That's very true, indeed, Sir Peter: and, after having married you, I should never pretend to taste again, I allow." It was thus that the passage stood at first in Lady Crewe's
Page 292 - Elections of knights of shires have now of late been made by very great outrageous and excessive number of people, dwelling within the same counties, of the which most part was people of small substance and of no value.
Page 378 - and particularly on Mr. Sheridan. ' No man admired more than he did the abilities of that Right Honourable Gentleman, the elegant sallies of his thought, the gay effusions of his fancy, his dramatic turns and his epigrammatic point; and if they were reserved for the proper stage, they would, no doubt, receive what the Honourable Gentleman's abilities
Page 224 - P. Most certainly. Your character is like a person in a plethora, absolutely dying of too much health. " Lady T. So then you would have me sin in my own defence, and part with my virtue to preserve my reputation.* " Young P. Exactly so upon my credit ma'am." **•*•• It will be observed, from
Page 251 - copy, the original reading of the sentence, such as I find it in all his earlier manuscripts of the play, is restored : — " That's very true, indeed, Sir Peter , and, after having married you, I am sure I should never pretend to taste again.
Page 54 - you her eye of sparkling blue ? That eye, in liquid circles moving; That cheek abash'd at Man's approving; The one, Love's arrows darting round; The other, blushing at the wound : Did she not speak, did she not move,
Page 6 - With the aid of a scribe I sit down to fulfil my promise about Mr. Sheridan. There was little in his boyhood worth communication. He was inferior to many of his school-fellows in the ordinary business of a school, and I do not remember any one instance in which he distinguished himself by Latin or English composition/
Page 268 - A moral essay now is all her care, A satire next, and then a bill of fare. 1779. A scene she now projects, and now a dish, Here Act the First, and here ' Remove with Fish.' Now, while this eye in a fine frenzy rolls, That soberly
Page 145 - here a great deal, and to my infinite delight; but what had a peculiar charm was, that she used to take my daughter, then a child, on her lap, and sing a number of childish songs with such a playfulness of manner, and such a sweetness of look and voice, as was quite enchanting.
Page 79 - his life .•' — but, on his still exclaiming against the indignity of breaking his sword (which he had brought upon himself) Mr. Ewart offered him the pistols, and some altercation passed between them. Mr. Mathews said, that he could never show his face, if it were known how his sword was broke