Memoir of the public and private life of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with a particular account of his family and connexions, Volume 11818 |
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... bring them together ; which was done , and they passed the day to their mutual satisfaction . When they broke up at night , Swift , in his usual ironical way , said , " I invite all here present to dine with me next Thursday , except Mr ...
... bring them together ; which was done , and they passed the day to their mutual satisfaction . When they broke up at night , Swift , in his usual ironical way , said , " I invite all here present to dine with me next Thursday , except Mr ...
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... bring him into the company of Dr. Sheridan . The consequence was , that the Lord Lieutenant was highly pleased with the pleasantry of his discourse , and the extent of his learning . At his desire , the scholars of the Doctor performed ...
... bring him into the company of Dr. Sheridan . The consequence was , that the Lord Lieutenant was highly pleased with the pleasantry of his discourse , and the extent of his learning . At his desire , the scholars of the Doctor performed ...
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... bring it forward in such a way as should excite a laugh against the place and its owner . Not long afterwards , the Dean being in company with the Bishop of Meath and some other persons , among whom was Sheridan , the prelate happened ...
... bring it forward in such a way as should excite a laugh against the place and its owner . Not long afterwards , the Dean being in company with the Bishop of Meath and some other persons , among whom was Sheridan , the prelate happened ...
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... bringing to Swift's recol- lection the conversation that had formerly taken place on this subject . The Dean , who felt great alarm at the remark , immediately said , " Yes , I re- member it very well : why you do not perceive any thing ...
... bringing to Swift's recol- lection the conversation that had formerly taken place on this subject . The Dean , who felt great alarm at the remark , immediately said , " Yes , I re- member it very well : why you do not perceive any thing ...
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... his neglect . At one time , when Swift was in the country and unwell , the Doctor made an appointment to come for him with a chaise , and bring him to Dublin on a certain day . The carriage was ordered DR . THOMAS SHERIDAN . 39.
... his neglect . At one time , when Swift was in the country and unwell , the Doctor made an appointment to come for him with a chaise , and bring him to Dublin on a certain day . The carriage was ordered DR . THOMAS SHERIDAN . 39.
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Page 199 - Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries. But above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Page 363 - Mr. Fox said, all that he had ever heard— all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 444 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Page 125 - Caesar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise ? 'Tis but to know how little can be known ; To see all others...
Page 444 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain in parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored. I impeach him in the name of...
Page 283 - I will say more: flattered and encouraged by the right honourable gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption, to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in The Alchymist.
Page 478 - I conjure you by your sacred names to depart for a moment from this place, though it be your peculiar residence ; nor hear your names profaned by such a sacrilegious combination as that which I am now compelled to repeat — where all the fair forms of nature and art, truth and peace, policy and...
Page 480 - Of all species of rhetoric, of every kind of eloquence that has been witnessed or recorded, either in ancient or modern times; whatever the acuteness of the bar, the dignity of the senate, the solidity of the judgment-seat, and the sacred morality of the pulpit, have hitherto furnished, nothing has equalled what we have this day heard in Westminster Hall.
Page 334 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain . Others, on earth, o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Page 256 - Sed non ante datur telluris operta subire, auricomos quam quis decerpserit arbore fetus.