 | Thornton MacMahon - 1846 - 260 pages
...write themselves. SNEER. — What! they may steal from them, eh ? My dear Plagiary ? Sir F. — Steal ! to be sure they may ; and egad ! serve your best thoughts...children ; disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. SNEER. — But your present work is a sacrifice to Melpomene ; and he, you know, never Sir F That's... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...write themselves. Sneer. What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary ? Sir Fret. Steal ! to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. Sneer. But your present... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1848 - 1296 pages
...write themselves. Sneer. What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary? Sir F. Steal ! — to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children — disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. Sneer. But your present... | |
 | 1872 - 676 pages
...dédit agros, ara humana ¡edificavit urbes." — De Re Ru>tica.~\ "Si R FRETWELL PLAGIARY. Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own."— The Crilic, act i. sc.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...may steal from them 1 eh, my dear Plagiary t für P. Steal ! to be ture they may ; and, egad ! serre known couch, one nuptial kiss To me, this day, a second time Sneer. But your present work is a sacrifice to Melpomene ; and he, you know, never Sir P. That's no... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary? Sir F. Steal ! to be sure they may ; and, serve our best thoughts as gipsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. Sneer. But your present work is a sacrifice to Melpomene, and he you know never — "Sir F. That 's... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...about the transformation, and scarcely deigns to follow Sheridan's hint, about treating the idea " as gipsies do stolen children, — disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own." This new method may be called poetry with variations. Henry Smith into difficulty, and he must either... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gabriel Sigmond - 1857 - 592 pages
...themselves. ' Sneer. What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary ? Sir Fret. Steal ! — to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. Sneer. But your present... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1859 - 326 pages
...who write themselves. Sneer. What! they may steal from them ? eh, my dear Plagiary ? Sir F. Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad ! serve your best thoughts as gipsies do stolen children— digfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. Sneer. But your present work is a sacrifice to Melpomene... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 268 pages
...Sheridan. * Kensington Garden, a poem, by Thomas Tickell. ' " They majr serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own."— Critic, Act i. Sc. 1. took it from Steele,1 and Steele from Wycherley.8 Nobody dies ! what becomes... | |
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Besides — I can tell you it is not always so safe to leave a play in the hands of those who write themselves. SNEER. What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary ? SIR FRET. 
