Sheridaniana: Or, Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Brinsley SheridanH. Colburn, 1826 - 334 pages |
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... the first time he saw me , was particular in his behaviour to me . I did not at first observe it , and , as I thought him an agreeable man , and one who I was told bore an unexceptionable character , I did not 20 SHERIDANIANA .
... the first time he saw me , was particular in his behaviour to me . I did not at first observe it , and , as I thought him an agreeable man , and one who I was told bore an unexceptionable character , I did not 20 SHERIDANIANA .
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... came in ; he had observed me taking the laudanum , and when he saw me wri- ting , he seemed very much alarmed . At last , after swearing him to secrecy , I told him what c 5 SHERIDANIANA . 33 who was ill with the tooth-ache. All ...
... came in ; he had observed me taking the laudanum , and when he saw me wri- ting , he seemed very much alarmed . At last , after swearing him to secrecy , I told him what c 5 SHERIDANIANA . 33 who was ill with the tooth-ache. All ...
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... observe , that , while he severely criticises his style and language , his own spell- ing , in every second line , convicts him of deficiency in at least one common branch of literary acquirement : -we find thing always spelt think ...
... observe , that , while he severely criticises his style and language , his own spell- ing , in every second line , convicts him of deficiency in at least one common branch of literary acquirement : -we find thing always spelt think ...
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... observed , that “ though those ministerial mem- bers , who chiefly robbed and plundered their constituents , might afterwards affect to despise them , yet gentlemen who felt properly the nature of the trust allotted to them , would ...
... observed , that “ though those ministerial mem- bers , who chiefly robbed and plundered their constituents , might afterwards affect to despise them , yet gentlemen who felt properly the nature of the trust allotted to them , would ...
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... observed that twenty - one new clauses were added , which were to be known by the letters of the alphabet from A to W ; therefore , he hoped that some gentlemen of ability would invent three more for X , Y , and Z , to complete the ...
... observed that twenty - one new clauses were added , which were to be known by the letters of the alphabet from A to W ; therefore , he hoped that some gentlemen of ability would invent three more for X , Y , and Z , to complete the ...
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Page 64 - ... duodecimo phaeton, she desired me to write some verses on her ponies; upon which, I took out my pocketbook, and in one moment produced the following : " Sure never were seen two such beautiful ponies ; Other horses are clowns, but these macaronies : To give them this title I'm sure can't be wrong, Their legs are so slim, and their tails are so long.
Page 95 - Hasting's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little : nothing simple, nothing unmixed : all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; — a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities ; with nothing great but his crimes ; and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster.
Page 229 - 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 85 - No man admired more than he did the abilities of that Right Honourable Gentlemen, the elegant sallies of his thought, the gay effusions of his fancy, his dramatic turns and his epigrammatic...
Page 63 - Then, behind, all my hair is done up in a plat, And so, like a cornet's, tuck'd under my hat. Then I mount on my palfrey as gay as a lark, And, follow'd by John, take the dust * in High Park. In the way I am met by some smart macaroni, Who rides by my side on a little bay pony — No sturdy Hibernian, with shoulders so wide, But as taper and slim as the ponies they ride ; Their legs are as slim, and their shoulders no wider...
Page 196 - Paull was his opponent, he found himself in company with two Westminster electors. In the course of conversation one of them asked the other to whom he meant to give his vote ? When his friend replied, " To Paull, certainly; for though I think him but a shabby sort of fellow, I would vote for any one rather than that rascal Sheridan!" " Do you know Sheridan ?" asked the stranger. " Not I, Sir," answered the gentleman, " nor should I wish to know him.
Page 62 - Cheeks of rose, untouch'd 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 174 - ... incredible as it may appear, until the end of the fourth act, neither Mrs. Siddons, nor Charles Kemble, nor Barrymore, had all their speeches for the fifth ? Mr. Sheridan was up-stairs in the prompter's room...
Page 2 - 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, in prose or verse.* Nathaniel Halhcd, one of his school-fellows, wrote well in Latin and Greek.
Page 93 - The late Mr. Logan, well known for his literary efforts, and author of a most masterly defence of Mr. Hastings, went that day to the House of Commons, prepossessed for the accused and against his accuser. At the expiration of the first hour he said to a friend, All this is declamatory assertion without proof:' — when the second was finished, 'This is a most wonderful oration:' — at the close of the third, 'Mr.