 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1809 - 322 pages
...dear Plagiary ? Sir F. Steal ! — to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them, to make 'em pass for their own. Sneer. But your present work is a sacrifice to Melpomene; and HE, you know, never Sir F. That's no... | |
 | Richard Walker James Porson - 1815 - 524 pages
...46. 1. 16. Poole's Synopsis, ix. p. 3547, 66. P. 50. 1. 7. — serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. The Critic. nf 1. 6. Dr. Bentley, I suspect. P. 51. 1. penult. Eurip. Fragm. incerta CXLI. Ttxrw ¿c... | |
 | 1879 - 822 pages
...find the following : " Steal ? to be sure they may, and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children — disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own." The priority of this just rebuke belongs, however, to Churchill, Sheridan's predecessor by some twenty... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1821 - 430 pages
...Plagiary? Sir Fret. Steal ! — to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. Sir Fret. That 's no security. — A dexterous plagiarist may do any thing. — Why, sir, for aught... | |
 | 1825 - 542 pages
...Sheridan's impromptu. * Sheridan makes Sir Fretful Plagiary say, " Steal ! to be sure they may ; and egad serve your best thoughts as gipsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own." The idea in Churchill is not so happily expressed, it is rather stiff and laboured — " Still pilfers... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 586 pages
...(says Sir Fretful) to be sure they may ; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gipsies do stolen CHAP, children, disfigure them, to make 'em pass for . their own."* Churchill has the same idea in 1779' nearly the same language : — " Still pilfers wretched plans and makes them worse, Like gipsies,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1825 - 78 pages
...What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary ? Sir F. Steal ! — to be sure they may ; and serve your best thoughts as gipsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make them pass for their own. . .. . Sneer. But your present work is a sacrifice to Melpomene, and he, you... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 pages
...another of somewhat a different kind : — " Steal ! (says Sir Fretful) to be sure they may ; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gipsies do stolen children,...Churchill has the same idea in nearly the same language: — * This simile was again made use of by him in a speech upon Mr. Pitt's India Bill, which he declared... | |
 | 1827 - 378 pages
...Plagiary ? Sir F. Steal ! — to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make "em pass for their own. Sneer. But your present work is a sacrifice to Melpomene, and he you know never— Sir F. That's no... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...hey, my dear Plagiary ? Sir F. Steal ! to be sure they may ; and, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. Sneer. But your present work is a sacrifice to Melpomene, and he you know never Sir F. That 's no security.... | |
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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. 
