 | Walter Sydney Sichel - 1909 - 728 pages
...homestead in Dublin. The perpetual shifting of their quarters deprived Mrs. Sheridan of these two 1 " I know not, madam, that you have a right upon moral principles to make your readers suffer so much." » Devonshire House MSS. In the Sheridan MSS. Mrs. Tickell is to be found reading it aloud at Hampton... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pages
...but resigned, and full of hope of "heaven's mercy." Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it: "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so [140 much." Mr. Thomas Davies the actor, who then kept a bookseller's shop in Russelstreet, Coven t-garden,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 pages
...but resigned, and full of hope of "heaven's mercy." Johnson paid her this high compliment upon it:" I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers surfer so [140 much." Mr. Thomas Davies the actor, who then kept a bookseller's shop in Russelstreet,... | |
 | Grolier Club - 1917 - 248 pages
...dedicated. Dr. Johnson's comment upon it, addressed to the author, was: "I know not, madam, whether you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much." 62 59 MEMOIRS OF M1ss SIDNEY BIDULPH, EXTRACTED FROM HER OWN JOURNAL . DUBLIN : PRINTED BY AND FOR... | |
 | Lionel Johnson, Joseph Edwin Barton, John Lane - 1923 - 390 pages
...out of all things, glad or sad. And they have great allies : Dr. Johnson said to Mrs. Sheridan : ' I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much ' : and Arnold has immortalized that saying of Joubert about the soul's cry, ' You hurt me ! ' Even... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...and pious heroine, who goes to her grave unrelieved, but resigned and full of hope of Heaven's mercy: "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." This novel, indeed, like most of its kind of the period, is sentimental only in its tender overflow... | |
 | Léonie Villard - 1924 - 266 pages
...Johnson's half-serious protest against The Memoirs of Miss Sydney Bidulph by Mrs. Frances Sheridan : — " I know not, madam, that you have a right — upon...principles — to make your readers suffer so much." Miss Austen speaks for "a young lady crossed in love " who had been driven to endure the perfidy of... | |
 | Joseph Bunn Heidler - 1928 - 196 pages
...XXII. *Ibid. 4 Boswell quoted Dr. Johnson as saying to Mrs. Sheridan (Life, ed. GB Hill, 1, 389) : "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." Although Boswell considered this a "high compliment," it would appear that Dr. Johnson felt that in... | |
 | George Tobias Flom - 1928 - 532 pages
...XXII. • Ibid. 4 Boswell quoted Dr. Johnson as saying to Mrs. Sheridan {Life, ed. GB Hill, I) 3^9): "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." Although Boswell considered this a "high compliment," it would appear that Dr. Johnson felt that in... | |
 | Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan - 1984 - 228 pages
...manner of Richardson's Clarissa. Dr. Johnson spoke feelingly of its power when he said to Mrs. Sheridan, "I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral...principles, to make your readers suffer so much." 20 It should also be said that Frances' story is on the whole more tough-minded and honest in its representation... | |
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. 
