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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... court favour , being appointed one of the royal chaplains , and presented to a living in the diocess of Cork . On going down to be inducted , he was requested by Archdeacon Russell of Cork to supply his place in the pulpit on the ...
... court favour , being appointed one of the royal chaplains , and presented to a living in the diocess of Cork . On going down to be inducted , he was requested by Archdeacon Russell of Cork to supply his place in the pulpit on the ...
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... court on behalf of the prisoner ; the whole amounting to eighteen shillings . It is said that he conducted himself with wonderful humour through the whole of the trial . The Jacksons and Grattans had likewise their respective stations ...
... court on behalf of the prisoner ; the whole amounting to eighteen shillings . It is said that he conducted himself with wonderful humour through the whole of the trial . The Jacksons and Grattans had likewise their respective stations ...
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... court , and the counsellor , notwithstanding his effrontery , sat down abashed , without venturing to ask ano- ther question . In short , the jury found the case so clearly established , that they brought in the gentleman prisoner ...
... court , and the counsellor , notwithstanding his effrontery , sat down abashed , without venturing to ask ano- ther question . In short , the jury found the case so clearly established , that they brought in the gentleman prisoner ...
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... Court of King's Bench for the enlargement of the gentleman . Thus ample redress was procured for the ma- nager and the actors , by obtaining that respect to be paid to the scenes of . the theatre in Dublin , which no other , till then ...
... Court of King's Bench for the enlargement of the gentleman . Thus ample redress was procured for the ma- nager and the actors , by obtaining that respect to be paid to the scenes of . the theatre in Dublin , which no other , till then ...
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... court with a schedule of his debts and effects . On the second of February , 1767 , he performed Hamlet , at the theatre in Crow Street , with great applause ; and he continued to act fourteen nights , ending with Maskwell , in the ...
... court with a schedule of his debts and effects . On the second of February , 1767 , he performed Hamlet , at the theatre in Crow Street , with great applause ; and he continued to act fourteen nights , ending with Maskwell , in the ...
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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.