Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan: With a Particular Account of His Family and Connexions, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1817 |
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... means an uncommon thing in those times , a discourse well seasoned with political allusions . Though in this they experienced a disappoint- ment , 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 political allusions . Though in this they experienced a disappoint- ment , for the sermon was a plain , practical disquisition upon the ordinary duty of husbanding ...
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... , he contrived by some means to absent himself for a short space ; which he employed in writing a humorous inventory of the household goods at Laracor . Having finished his piece , he folded it up , and gave it , with a 14 INTRODUCTION .
... , he contrived by some means to absent himself for a short space ; which he employed in writing a humorous inventory of the household goods at Laracor . Having finished his piece , he folded it up , and gave it , with a 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... mean 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 others , that " Swift fastened upon Sheridan as a prey ...
... mean 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 others , that " Swift fastened upon Sheridan as a prey ...
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... Sheridan . The widow of the Doctor , on his death , removed to Dublin , where she lived in a very retired way many years , and died at an advanced age , in mean circumstances . What opinion Swift had of her , appears 32 INTRODUCTION .
... Sheridan . The widow of the Doctor , on his death , removed to Dublin , where she lived in a very retired way many years , and died at an advanced age , in mean circumstances . What opinion Swift had of her , appears 32 INTRODUCTION .
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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 approached , 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 approached , the Lord Chief Justice Marlay , who was ...
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Page 146 - 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 265 - 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 324 - 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 92 - To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Page 323 - 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 348 - 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 349 - 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 244 - 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 182 - Hare, after my uncle, Charles Townshend, the wittiest man he ever met with, but that Sheridan surpassed them both infinitely; and Sheridan told me next day that he was quite lost in admiration of Fox, and that it was a puzzle to him to say what he admired most, his commanding superiority of talent and universal knowledge, or his playful fancy, artless manners, and benevolence of heart, which showed itself in every word he uttered.
Page 86 - Ordain'd me in each several state My wayward lot has known, What taught me silently to bear, To curb the sigh, to check the tear, When sorrow weigh'd me down? 'Twas Patience — temperate goddess, stay...