Sheridan, from New and Original Material: Including a Manuscript Diary by Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, المجلد 1Constable Limited, 1909 - 630 من الصفحات |
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¹ Cf ¹ Sheridan afterwards Alicia Alicia LeFanu Aristaenetus Bath Chronicle beauty brother Burke Burke's called charm cited by Rae comedy Corr Creevey daughter dear Dick Drury Lane Dublin Duchess of Devonshire Duenna Dufferin Papers Duke early Elizabeth Sheridan elopement Fox's Frances Sheridan Garrick Halhed Halhed's Harrow heart honour House ibid instance Irish Lady later LeFanu MSS Linley's London Lord manuscript marriage married Mathews Mathews's Memoirs Miss Linley Moore Moore's Journal never night old Sheridan once Parr passion Pitt Pitt's play political Prince R. B. Sheridan Rivals says School for Scandal second duel sentimental Sheridan MSS Sheridan's father Sheridan's letter sigh sister song speech Street Swift sword tears theatre Thomas Grenville Thomas Sheridan thou Tickell Tickell's told took verses Warren Hastings Watkins Whig Whyte wife William Linley words writes wrote young Sheridan youth
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الصفحة 177 - ... name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
الصفحة 342 - But wherefore do you hold me here so long ? What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently : For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
الصفحة 273 - Cheeks of rose, untouch'd by art ? I will own the colour true, When yielding blushes aid their hue. Is her hand so soft and pure ? I must press it, to be sure ; Nor can I be certain then, Till it, grateful, press again. Must I, with attentive eye, Watch her heaving bosom sigh ? I will do so, when I see That heaving bosom sigh for me.
الصفحة 127 - ... of the woods; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren ? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment.
الصفحة 548 - Sir Peter, this is one of the smartest French milliners I ever saw. Egad, you seem all to have been diverting yourselves here at hide and seek, and I don't see who is out of the secret. Shall I beg your ladyship to inform me ? Not a word ! — Brother, will you be pleased to explain this matter ? What ! is Morality dumb too ?— Sir Peter, though I found you in the dark, perhaps you are not so now ! All mute ! — Well...
الصفحة 287 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
الصفحة 336 - Your charms would make me true. To you no soul shall bear deceit, No stranger offer wrong; But friends in all the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. But when they learn that you have blest Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest, And...
الصفحة 346 - April 8th, 1772. *'Mr. Richard S******* having attempted, in a letter left behind him for that purpose, to account for his scandalous method of running away from this place, by insinuations derogating from my character, and that of a young lady, innocent as far as relates to me, or my knowledge...
الصفحة 603 - Th' expressive glance, whose subtle comment draws Entranc'd attention, and a mute applause ; Gesture that marks, with force and feeling fraught, A sense in silence, and a will in thought ; Harmonious speech, whose pure and liquid tone Gives verse a music scarce confess'd its own, As light...
الصفحة 156 - I will fight for nobility, says the viscount, but my zeal would be much greater if I were made an earl. Rouse all the marquis within me, exclaims the earl, and the peerage never turned forth a more undaunted champion in its cause than I shall prove.