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Page 215 - Well, I'll not debate how far scandal may be allowable ; but in a man, I am sure, it is always contemptible. We...
Page 484 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Page 264 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation, of a few surviving spectators.
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Page 237 - ... phaeton, she desired me to write some verses on her ponies; upon which, I took out my pocketbook, and in one moment produced the following : " Sure never were seen two such beautiful ponies ; Other horses are clowns, but these macaronies : To give them this title I'm sure can't be wrong, Their legs are so slim, and their tails are so long.
Page 275 - What motley cares Gorilla's mind perplex, Whom maids and metaphors conspire to vex! In studious deshabille behold her sit, A letter'd gossip and a housewife wit: At once invoking, though for different views, Her gods, her cook, her milliner, and muse. Round her strew'd room a frippery chaos lies, A chequer'd wreck of notable and wise. Bills, books, caps, couplets, combs, a varied mass, Oppress the toilet and obscure the glass; Unfinished here an epigram is laid, And there a mantua-maker's bill unpaid.
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Page 153 - So pleads the tale' that gives to future times " The son's misfortunes and the parent's crimes ; " There shall his fame (if own'd to-night) survive, " Fix'd by THE HAND THAT BIDS OUR LANGUAGE LIVE.
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| Title | Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1 Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore |
| Author | Thomas Moore |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
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