Memoirs of the life of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan1835 |
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... side , while he was thrumming on his harpsichord , in order to make extempore verses to whatever air he should beat out to his liking . I remember , one morning , as he was in this situation , thrum , thrum , thrum , ( moving his ...
... side , while he was thrumming on his harpsichord , in order to make extempore verses to whatever air he should beat out to his liking . I remember , one morning , as he was in this situation , thrum , thrum , thrum , ( moving his ...
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... side , Stalking across the well - swept entry , To hold her council in the pantry ; Or , with prophetic soul , foretelling The peas will boil well by the shelling ; Or , bustling in her private closet , Prepare her lord his morning ...
... side , Stalking across the well - swept entry , To hold her council in the pantry ; Or , with prophetic soul , foretelling The peas will boil well by the shelling ; Or , bustling in her private closet , Prepare her lord his morning ...
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... sides necessary . 1 Captain Mathews , a married man and intimate with Miss Linley's family , presuming upon the innocent familiarity which her youth and his own station permitted between them , had for some time not only rendered her ...
... sides necessary . 1 Captain Mathews , a married man and intimate with Miss Linley's family , presuming upon the innocent familiarity which her youth and his own station permitted between them , had for some time not only rendered her ...
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... side has at last succeeded . Miss L — is now fixing in a con- vent , where she has been entered some time . This has been a much more difficult point than you could have imagined , and we have , I find , been . extremely fortunate . She ...
... side has at last succeeded . Miss L — is now fixing in a con- vent , where she has been entered some time . This has been a much more difficult point than you could have imagined , and we have , I find , been . extremely fortunate . She ...
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... side of the ring , the ground was there perfectly level . I called on him , and drew my sword ( he having previously declined pistols ) . Mr. Ewart ob- served a sentinel on the other side of the building ; we advanced to another part of ...
... side of the ring , the ground was there perfectly level . I called on him , and drew my sword ( he having previously declined pistols ) . Mr. Ewart ob- served a sentinel on the other side of the building ; we advanced to another part of ...
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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.