 | John Bell - 1797 - 434 pages
...[Pulls out a paper. ] Let me see here, you know what goes before— —the comparison, you know. [Reads. For as the sun shines every day, So of our coachman I may say Brhk. I am afraid that simile wo n't do in wet weather — —Because you say the sun shines every... | |
 | William Congreve - 1797 - 474 pages
...Right, but the vulgar will never comprehend that. Lady F. Well, you shall hear — Let me see, [Reads.] For as the sun shines every day, So of our coachman I may say ; He shews his drunken fiery face. Just as the sun does, more or lets. G Brisk. That's right, all's... | |
 | 1804 - 540 pages
...[Pulls out a paper.] Let me see here ; you know what goes hefore the comparison, yon know. [Reads.] ' For as the sun shines every day, ' So, of our coachman, I may say.' Brisk. I am afraid that simile won't do in wet weather Because you say the sun shines every day.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 pages
...[Pulls out 'a paper."] Let me see here, you know what goes before the comparison, you know. [Rtadt. For as the sun shines every day, So of our coachman I may say Brisk. I am afraid that simile won't do in wet weather — because you say the sun sliines every... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 pages
...Right, but the vulgar will never comprehend that. Lady F. Well, you shall hear — Let me see, [Reads. For as the sun shines every day, So of our coachman I may say ; He shews his drunken fiery face, Just as the sun does, more or less. Brisk. That's right; all's... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 pages
...'[I'ulls nut a /)«/)cr.] Let me see here, you know what goes be« fore the comparison, you know. [Readi. For as the sun shines every day, So of our coachman I may sayBritk. I am afraid that simile won't do in wet weather — because you say the sun shines every... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 566 pages
...too, (Act III. Scene 10.) there is much which may, at least, have mixed itself with the recollections of Sheridan, and influenced the course of his fancy...the sun shines every day, So of our Coachman I may say" — CHAP. is by no means unlikely to have suggested the doggerel of Sir Benjamin Backbite ; and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 462 pages
...least, have mixed itself with the recollections of Sheridan, and influenced the course of his fancy—it being often found that the images with which the memory...the sun shines every day, So of our Coachman I may say"— is by no means unlikely to have suggested the doggerel of Sir Benjamin Backbite; and the scandalous... | |
 | 1825 - 626 pages
...Dealer, (Act III. Scene 10,) there is much which may, at least, have mixed itself with the recollections of Sheridan, and influenced the course of his fancy...the offspring, which the imagination brings forth." — (P. 189.) Here now the naked fact is, merely that Sheridan recollected certain matters out of the... | |
 | 1825 - 590 pages
...mixed itself with the recollections of Sheridan, and influenced the course of his fancy — it heir; g often found that the images with which the memory...those pictures hung up before the eyes of pregnant womea at Sparta, produce insensibly a likeness to themselves in the offspring, which the imagination... | |
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I don't say the sun shines all the day ; but, that he peeps now and then. Yet he does shine all the day, too, you know, though we don't see him. 
