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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... means an uncommon thing in those times , a discourse well seasoned with politi- cal allusions . Though in this they experienced a disappointment , for the sermon was a plain , practical disquisition upon the ordinary duty of husbanding ...
... means an uncommon thing in those times , a discourse well seasoned with politi- cal allusions . Though in this they experienced a disappointment , for the sermon was a plain , practical disquisition upon the ordinary duty of husbanding ...
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... means to absent himself for a short space ; which he em- ployed in writing a humorous inventory of the household goods at Laracor . Having finished his piece , he folded it up , and gave it , with a shilling , to a beggar , who was to ...
... means to absent himself for a short space ; which he em- ployed in writing a humorous inventory of the household goods at Laracor . Having finished his piece , he folded it up , and gave it , with a shilling , to a beggar , who was to ...
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... mean " Oh ! I forgot too - I believe there may be one more , that great fat joker , friend Helsham , he That wrote the prologue , and if you stay with him , depend on't in the end he'll sham ye . ” It has been said by Lord Orrery and ...
... mean " Oh ! I forgot too - I believe there may be one more , that great fat joker , friend Helsham , he That wrote the prologue , and if you stay with him , depend on't in the end he'll sham ye . ” It has been said by Lord Orrery and ...
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... mean circumstances . What opinion Swift had of her , appears from these lines , which he composed as an epitaph on her husband . Beneath this marble stone here lies Poor Toм , more merry much than wise ; Who only liv'd for two great ...
... mean circumstances . What opinion Swift had of her , appears from these lines , which he composed as an epitaph on her husband . Beneath this marble stone here lies Poor Toм , more merry much than wise ; Who only liv'd for two great ...
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... mean time a prosecution commenced against the author of the riot , while the manager , on the other hand , was indicted for an assault . When the time appointed for the trials ap- proached , the Lord Chief Justice Marlay , who was ...
... mean time a prosecution commenced against the author of the riot , while the manager , on the other hand , was indicted for an assault . When the time appointed for the trials ap- proached , the Lord Chief Justice Marlay , who was ...
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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.