The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley SheridanE. Moxon, 1840 - 153 Seiten |
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... nature to invent a Parson Adams , or Sir Roger de Coverley ; much less to venture upon an heroical character in the shape of a footman . The gaiety of success , and , some say , gratitude to the good actor who was substi- tuted for the ...
... nature to invent a Parson Adams , or Sir Roger de Coverley ; much less to venture upon an heroical character in the shape of a footman . The gaiety of success , and , some say , gratitude to the good actor who was substi- tuted for the ...
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... nature a thing defective , and therefore sooner read through than the wisdom of the wise , or the universality of nature . A man , like Sheridan or Congreve , may very well know all that is to be known in the circles of conventional ...
... nature a thing defective , and therefore sooner read through than the wisdom of the wise , or the universality of nature . A man , like Sheridan or Congreve , may very well know all that is to be known in the circles of conventional ...
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... nature . It is observable , however , and not a little edifying to observe , that when those who excel in a spirit of satire above everything else , come to attempt serious specimens of the poetry and romance whose exaggerations they ...
... nature . It is observable , however , and not a little edifying to observe , that when those who excel in a spirit of satire above everything else , come to attempt serious specimens of the poetry and romance whose exaggerations they ...
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... nature , none the less so for a veil of refined language , which was his highest notion of the dress of the heart ; but his very animal spirits , and contentment with the pleasure of the moment , served to keep him from dishonest aims ...
... nature , none the less so for a veil of refined language , which was his highest notion of the dress of the heart ; but his very animal spirits , and contentment with the pleasure of the moment , served to keep him from dishonest aims ...
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... nature as well as the father's wit . He also partook of her beauty , and he thus became the fortunate means of perpetuating the best distinctions of both families , the Sheridans and Linleys , in the persons of his children . The ...
... nature as well as the father's wit . He also partook of her beauty , and he thus became the fortunate means of perpetuating the best distinctions of both families , the Sheridans and Linleys , in the persons of his children . The ...
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Acres Alonzo Aman believe BUTLER captain Chas Clara Cora COUNTESS Dang dear devil Don Ferd Don Jer dost doth DUCHESS Duen Duke Egad Egra Emperor Enter Exeunt Exit eyes faith Fash father Faulk Faulkland Faust feel fellow give GORDON hand hath hear heart Heaven honour hope ILLO Isaac ISOLANI Lady Sneer Lady Teaz look Lord Fop Lory Louisa ma'am madam Malaprop Marg Meph Mephistopheles Miss Hoyd ne'er NEUBRUNN never O'Con O'Daub o'er OCTAVIO Piccolomini Pizarro pray Puff QUESTENBERG Re-enter Rolla Rosy SCENE School for Scandal Servant Sir Anth sir Anthony Sir Fret Sir Luc sir Lucius Sir Oliv Sir Pet sir Peter Sir Tun sir Tunbelly soldier soul speak spirit sure Surf Teazle tell TERTSKY thee THEKLA there's thine thing thought WALLENSTEIN wish word Zounds
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Seite 56 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Seite 20 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Seite 59 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Seite 90 - Peter, good nature becomes you — you look now as you did before we were married, when you used to walk with me under the elms, and tell me stories of what a gallant you were in your youth, and chuck me under the chin, you would...
Seite 10 - ... my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world. I have resolved, therefore, to fix you at once in a noble independence.
Seite 13 - tis all I desire. Not that I think a woman the worse for being handsome; but, sir, if you please to recollect, you before hinted something about a hump or two, one eye, and a few more graces of that kind — now, without being very nice...
Seite 85 - tis out of pure good humor, and I take it for granted they deal exactly in the same manner with me. But, Sir Peter, you know you promised to come to Lady Sneerwell's too. SIR PET. Well, well, I'll call in, just to look after my own character.
Seite 15 - It is but too true, indeed, ma'am; — yet I fear our ladies should share the blame — they think our admiration of beauty so great, that knowledge in them would be superfluous. Thus, like garden-trees, they seldom show fruit, till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom. — Few, like Mrs. Malaprop and the orange-tree, are rich in both at once!
Seite 82 - ... the credit of a prudent lady of her stamp as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation that is always ailing, yet will outlive the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. Sir Benj.
Seite 80 - Then, at once to unravel this mystery, I must inform you that love has no share whatever in the intercourse between Mr. Surface and me.