The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley SheridanE. Moxon, 1840 - 153 páginas |
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... appears from Boswell , that Dr. Johnson applauded this pride : but he did so , probably , in ignorance of the other circumstance ; certainly in no foresight of the shifts and improvidences of Sheridan's life . The approaches of want of ...
... appears from Boswell , that Dr. Johnson applauded this pride : but he did so , probably , in ignorance of the other circumstance ; certainly in no foresight of the shifts and improvidences of Sheridan's life . The approaches of want of ...
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... appear . Sheridan seems to have become a Whig , as most men become anything , by accident , and by the circumstances of early connexion and intro- duction . He had not the cordial fellowship and overflowing good - nature of Fox . He did ...
... appear . Sheridan seems to have become a Whig , as most men become anything , by accident , and by the circumstances of early connexion and intro- duction . He had not the cordial fellowship and overflowing good - nature of Fox . He did ...
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... appears to have deviated neither into the vices nor the virtues of Richard . His sisters , Mrs. Lefanu and another , seem to have been more amiable , resembling , both in that respect and in talents , their excellent mother , the ...
... appears to have deviated neither into the vices nor the virtues of Richard . His sisters , Mrs. Lefanu and another , seem to have been more amiable , resembling , both in that respect and in talents , their excellent mother , the ...
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... appears to us a just as well as eloquent exposure of the injury done to the animal spirits and delightfulness of the very best kind of comedy , by the cold and critical excess of the brilliant verbiage of these writers ; —a wit , as the ...
... appears to us a just as well as eloquent exposure of the injury done to the animal spirits and delightfulness of the very best kind of comedy , by the cold and critical excess of the brilliant verbiage of these writers ; —a wit , as the ...
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... appear to have been most dissatisfactory . Many other errors there were , which might in part have arisen from my being by no means conversant with plays in general , either in reading or at the theatre . Yet I own that , in one respect ...
... appear to have been most dissatisfactory . Many other errors there were , which might in part have arisen from my being by no means conversant with plays in general , either in reading or at the theatre . Yet I own that , in one respect ...
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Acres Alonzo Aman believe BUTLER captain Chas Clara Cora COUNTESS Dang dear devil Don Ferd Don Jer dost doth DUCHESS Duen Duke Egad Egra Emperor Enter Exeunt Exit eyes faith Fash father Faulk Faulkland Faust feel fellow give GORDON hand hath hear heart Heaven honour hope ILLO Isaac ISOLANI Lady Sneer Lady Teaz look Lord Fop Lory Louisa ma'am madam Malaprop Marg Meph Mephistopheles Miss Hoyd ne'er NEUBRUNN never O'Con O'Daub o'er OCTAVIO Piccolomini Pizarro pray Puff QUESTENBERG Re-enter Rolla Rosy SCENE School for Scandal Servant Sir Anth sir Anthony Sir Fret Sir Luc sir Lucius Sir Oliv Sir Pet sir Peter Sir Tun sir Tunbelly soldier soul speak spirit sure Surf Teazle tell TERTSKY thee THEKLA there's thine thing thought WALLENSTEIN wish word Zounds
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Página 56 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Página 20 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 59 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Página 90 - Peter, good nature becomes you — you look now as you did before we were married, when you used to walk with me under the elms, and tell me stories of what a gallant you were in your youth, and chuck me under the chin, you would...
Página 10 - ... my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world. I have resolved, therefore, to fix you at once in a noble independence.
Página 13 - tis all I desire. Not that I think a woman the worse for being handsome; but, sir, if you please to recollect, you before hinted something about a hump or two, one eye, and a few more graces of that kind — now, without being very nice...
Página 85 - tis out of pure good humor, and I take it for granted they deal exactly in the same manner with me. But, Sir Peter, you know you promised to come to Lady Sneerwell's too. SIR PET. Well, well, I'll call in, just to look after my own character.
Página 15 - It is but too true, indeed, ma'am; — yet I fear our ladies should share the blame — they think our admiration of beauty so great, that knowledge in them would be superfluous. Thus, like garden-trees, they seldom show fruit, till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom. — Few, like Mrs. Malaprop and the orange-tree, are rich in both at once!
Página 82 - ... the credit of a prudent lady of her stamp as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation that is always ailing, yet will outlive the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. Sir Benj.
Página 80 - Then, at once to unravel this mystery, I must inform you that love has no share whatever in the intercourse between Mr. Surface and me.