Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Bind 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 |
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Side 36 - December), that a" Committee be appointed to examine and report precedents, of such proceedings as may have been had, in case of the personal exercise of the Royal authority being prevented or interrupted, by infancy, sickness, infirmity, or otherwise, with a view to provide for the same."* It was immediately upon this motion that Mr.
Side 440 - Opera), the best farce (the Critic— it is only too good for a farce), and the best Address (Monologue on Garrick), and, to crown all, delivered the very best Oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country.
Side 463 - Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, " Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade...
Side 455 - I find things settled, so that ^150 will remove all difficulty. I am absolutely undone and brokenhearted. I shall negotiate for the plays successfully in the course of a week, when all shall be returned. I have desired Fairbrother to get back the guarantee for thirty.
Side 427 - I'd lose To gain one smile from thee. And only thou should not despise My weakness or my woe ; If I am mad in others' eyes, 'Tis thou hast made me so.
Side 59 - Perpetual failure, even though nothing in that failure can be fixed on the improper choice of the object or the injudicious choice of means, will detract every day more and more from a man's credit, until he ends without success and without reputation. In fact, a constant pursuit even of the best objects, without adequate instruments, detracts something from the opinion of a man's judgment. This, I think, may be in part the cause of the inactivity of others of our friends who are in the vigor of...
Side 459 - Oh delay not," said the writer, without naming the person to whom he alluded — " delay not to draw aside the curtain within which that proud spirit hides its sufferings." He then adds, with a striking anticipation of what afterwards happened : — " Prefer ministering in the chamber of .sickness to mustering at ' The splendid sorrows that adorn the hearse...
Side 38 - In his firm opinion, his royal highness the Prince of Wales had as clear, as express a right to assume the reins of government, and exercise the power of sovereignty, during the continuance of the illness and incapacity with which it had pleased God to afflict his Majesty, as in the case of his Majesty's having undergone a natural and perfect demise...
Side 242 - Nay, even from those who seem to have no direct object of office or profit, what is the language which their actions speak ? " The throne is in danger! we will support the throne; but let us share the smiles of royalty." " The order of nobility is in danger ! I will fight for nobility," says the viscount, " but my zeal would be greater if I were made an earl.