Memoirs of the life of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan1835 |
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... Commons , as I remember it was your argument against attempting any thing from parliamentary authority in England . However , the folks here regret you , as one that is to be fixed in another kingdom , and will scarcely believe that you ...
... Commons , as I remember it was your argument against attempting any thing from parliamentary authority in England . However , the folks here regret you , as one that is to be fixed in another kingdom , and will scarcely believe that you ...
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... Commons - ' I am not at home - gad , now he has heard me and I must be at home . ' Here am I so plagued , and there is nothing I love so much as retirement and quiet .'— ' You never sent after me .'- Let servants call in to him such a ...
... Commons - ' I am not at home - gad , now he has heard me and I must be at home . ' Here am I so plagued , and there is nothing I love so much as retirement and quiet .'— ' You never sent after me .'- Let servants call in to him such a ...
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... Commons should withhold the sup- plies , till pledges of amendment in the administration of public af- fairs should be given ; —the Bill for the exclusion of Excise Officers and Contractors from Parliament , which it was reserved for a ...
... Commons should withhold the sup- plies , till pledges of amendment in the administration of public af- fairs should be given ; —the Bill for the exclusion of Excise Officers and Contractors from Parliament , which it was reserved for a ...
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... contractors from the House of Commons - the disqualifications of revenue - officers from voting at elections - the disfranchisement of corrupt voters at Cricklade , by which a second precedent ' was furnished towards that plan 182 MEMOIRS.
... contractors from the House of Commons - the disqualifications of revenue - officers from voting at elections - the disfranchisement of corrupt voters at Cricklade , by which a second precedent ' was furnished towards that plan 182 MEMOIRS.
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... Commons , with a fidelity to fallen ministers sufficiently rare , stood by them for a time in a desperate struggle with their successors , the voice of the Royal Prerogative , like the horn of Astolpho , soon scattered the whole body in ...
... Commons , with a fidelity to fallen ministers sufficiently rare , stood by them for a time in a desperate struggle with their successors , the voice of the Royal Prerogative , like the horn of Astolpho , soon scattered the whole body in ...
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Page 30 - You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy "writing's curst hard reading...
Page 108 - Peter, because flowers are dear in cold weather? You should find fault with the climate, and not with me. For my part, I'm sure, I wish it was spring all the year round, and that roses grew under our feet!
Page 85 - 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 308 - ... if he were to put all the political information which he had learned from books, all which he had gained from science, and all which any knowledge of the world and its affairs had taught him, into one scale, and the improvement which he had derived from his right honourable friend's instruction and conversation were placed in the other, he should be at a loss to decide to which to give the preference.
Page 462 - Whatever Sheridan has done or chosen to do has been par excellence, always the best of its kind. He has written the best comedy, (School for Scandal,) the best opera, (The Duenna — in my mind far before that St.
Page 132 - Besides — 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.
Page 287 - ... evening ; they had not yet dried their eyes, or been restored to their former placidity, and were unqualified to attend to new business. The tears shed in that House on the occasion to which he alluded, were not the tears of patriots for dying laws, but of Lords for their expiring places. The iron tears, which flowed down Pluto's cheek, rather resembled the dismal bubbling of the Styx, than the gentle murmuring streams of Aganippe.
Page 101 - Wounded myself in the early part of my life by the envenomed tongue of slander, I confess I have since known no pleasure equal to the reducing others to the level of my own injured reputation.
Page 371 - Can it be that people of high rank, and professing high principles, that they or their families should seek to thrive on the spoils of misery, and fatten on the meals wrested from industrious poverty...
Page 379 - the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.