Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1A. and W. Galignani, 1825 - 543 pages |
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... fame , to have passed , with her other papers , into the possession of her son , and after a transforming sleep , like that of the chrysalis , in his hands , to have taken wing at length in the brilliant form of The Rivals . The ...
... fame , to have passed , with her other papers , into the possession of her son , and after a transforming sleep , like that of the chrysalis , in his hands , to have taken wing at length in the brilliant form of The Rivals . The ...
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... fame . I should suppose that his father , without any regular system , polished his taste , and supplied his memory with anecdotes about our best writers in our Augustan age . The grandfather , you know , lived familiarly with Swift . I ...
... fame . I should suppose that his father , without any regular system , polished his taste , and supplied his memory with anecdotes about our best writers in our Augustan age . The grandfather , you know , lived familiarly with Swift . I ...
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... fame , which results from a life of usefulness and purity , and which it requires not the aid of art or eloquence to blazon . She appears to have been one of those rare women , who , united to men of more pretensions but less real ...
... fame , which results from a life of usefulness and purity , and which it requires not the aid of art or eloquence to blazon . She appears to have been one of those rare women , who , united to men of more pretensions but less real ...
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... fame in the same bottom , and both , as Halhed discovered at last , passionately in love with the same woman . It would have given me great pleasure to have been enabled to enliven my pages with even a few extracts from that portion of ...
... fame in the same bottom , and both , as Halhed discovered at last , passionately in love with the same woman . It would have given me great pleasure to have been enabled to enliven my pages with even a few extracts from that portion of ...
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... fame and profit , it was not till the month of May in the subsequent year , as appears by a letter from Mr. Ker to Sheridan , that the proba- bility of the arrival of the manuscript was an- nounced to Mr. Foote . " I have dispatched a ...
... fame and profit , it was not till the month of May in the subsequent year , as appears by a letter from Mr. Ker to Sheridan , that the proba- bility of the arrival of the manuscript was an- nounced to Mr. Foote . " I have dispatched a ...
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Page 241 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Page 194 - Well, I'll not debate how far scandal may be allowable ; but in a man, I am sure, it is always contemptible. We...
Page 302 - When he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only when he states his facts that you admire the flights of his imagination.
Page 158 - Cheeks of rose, untouched by art ? I will own the colour true, When yielding blushes aid their hue. Is her hand so soft and pure ? I must press it, to be sure; Nor can I be certain then, Till it, grateful, press again. Must I, with attentive eye, Watch her heaving bosom sigh ? I will do so, when I see That heaving bosom sigh for me.
Page 236 - That's very true, indeed, Sir. Peter; and after having married you, I should never pretend to taste again, I allow...
Page 157 - I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip, But where my own did hope to sip.
Page 413 - the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there was any record or tradition." Fox said, " all that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 232 - I don't say the sun shines all the day ; but, that he peeps now and then. Yet he does shine all the day, too, you know, though we don't see him.
Page 129 - Faulkland, you have not been more faulty in your unkind treatment of me than I am now in wanting inclination to resent it. As my heart honestly bids me place...
Page 250 - I can tell you it is not always so safe to leave a play in the hands of those who write themselves. SNEER. What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary ? SIR FRET.