Memoirs of the life of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan1835 |
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... character reflect honour upon a name already so distinguished , I am indebted for the chief part of the materials upon which the following Memoirs of his father are founded . I have to thank him , not only for this mark of confidence ...
... character reflect honour upon a name already so distinguished , I am indebted for the chief part of the materials upon which the following Memoirs of his father are founded . I have to thank him , not only for this mark of confidence ...
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... his frank and genial manners , and by the occasional gleams of superior intellect , which broke through all the indolence and indifference of his character . Harrow , at this time , possessed some peculiar advantages 4 MEMOIRS.
... his frank and genial manners , and by the occasional gleams of superior intellect , which broke through all the indolence and indifference of his character . Harrow , at this time , possessed some peculiar advantages 4 MEMOIRS.
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... character of Simile the reader will at once discover a sort of dim and shadowy pre- existence of Puff : - " Simile . Sir , you are very ignorant on the subject , it is the method most in vogue . " O'Cul . What ! to make the music first ...
... character of Simile the reader will at once discover a sort of dim and shadowy pre- existence of Puff : - " Simile . Sir , you are very ignorant on the subject , it is the method most in vogue . " O'Cul . What ! to make the music first ...
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... character of Mr. Sheridan , -and we have here an early instance of its influence over him . Though it was in August , 1770 , that he received the sketch of this piece from his friend , and though they both looked forward most sanguinely ...
... character of Mr. Sheridan , -and we have here an early instance of its influence over him . Though it was in August , 1770 , that he received the sketch of this piece from his friend , and though they both looked forward most sanguinely ...
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... character , and quoted the first Epistle . The Weekly Re- view in the Public Ledger had also spoken well of it , and cited a spe- cimen . The Oxford Magazine had transcribed two whole Epistles , without mentioning from whence they were ...
... character , and quoted the first Epistle . The Weekly Re- view in the Public Ledger had also spoken well of it , and cited a spe- cimen . The Oxford Magazine had transcribed two whole Epistles , without mentioning from whence they were ...
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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.