| Mrs. Inchbald - 1809 - 322 pages
...write themselves. Sneer. What, they may steal from them, hey, my 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... | |
| 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
...died in 1816, published a comedy, entitled " The Critic," in which we 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... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1821 - 430 pages
...write themselves. Sneer. What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear 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.... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 568 pages
...— " Enter Four Patriots from different Doors, who meet in the centre and shake Hands. " Sow-wit. These patriots seem to equal your greatest politicians...egad, serve your best thoughts as gipsies do stolen 275 CHAP, children, disfigure them, to make 'em pass for 1- their own."* Churchill has the same- idea... | |
| 1825 - 542 pages
...there was no Greek at all in Sheridan's impromptu. * Sheridan makes Sir Fretful Plagiary say, " Steal ! to be sure they may ; and egad serve your best thoughts...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
...no entertainment after it." / The manager, Mnrplay, in " The Author's Farce," like him of Drury Lane in the Critic, " does the town the honour of writing...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... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1827 - 584 pages
...possibly, the humorous scene of Lord Burleigh : — " Enter Four Patriots from different Doors, tiJio meet in the centre and shake Hands. " Sour-wit. These...egad, serve your best thoughts as gipsies do stolen T g CHAP, children, disfigure them, to make 'em pass for '' their own." * Churchill has the same idea... | |
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