The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley SheridanE. Moxon, 1840 - 153 sider |
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Side ix
... Light itself , and the fire of Apollo , could do nothing for him ! nor the wax of the bee , nor love , nor lucubra- tion , nor even the Greek Anthology ! We wonder what he thought of that pretty feminine speech of the lady in " The ...
... Light itself , and the fire of Apollo , could do nothing for him ! nor the wax of the bee , nor love , nor lucubra- tion , nor even the Greek Anthology ! We wonder what he thought of that pretty feminine speech of the lady in " The ...
Side x
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. very stars , seems to identify them with the artificial lights of our earthly night - time , in order to dismiss them with the better grace before the freshness and hilarity of day - light : Night's candles are ...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. very stars , seems to identify them with the artificial lights of our earthly night - time , in order to dismiss them with the better grace before the freshness and hilarity of day - light : Night's candles are ...
Side xiv
... lights . ' He has left four several dramas behind him , all different or of different kinds , and all excellent in their way ; ' The School for Scandal , ' ' The Rivals , ' The Duenna , ' and ' The Critic . ' The attraction of this last ...
... lights . ' He has left four several dramas behind him , all different or of different kinds , and all excellent in their way ; ' The School for Scandal , ' ' The Rivals , ' The Duenna , ' and ' The Critic . ' The attraction of this last ...
Side xv
... light , and her ornaments consummate ! The School for Scandal ' is , if not the most original , perhaps the most finished and faultless comedy which we have . When it is acted , you hear people all around you exclaiming , Surely it is ...
... light , and her ornaments consummate ! The School for Scandal ' is , if not the most original , perhaps the most finished and faultless comedy which we have . When it is acted , you hear people all around you exclaiming , Surely it is ...
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... light , that audience , whose fiat is essential to the poet's claim , whether his object be fame or profit , has surely a right to expect some deference to its opinion , from principles of politeness at least , if not from gratitude ...
... light , that audience , whose fiat is essential to the poet's claim , whether his object be fame or profit , has surely a right to expect some deference to its opinion , from principles of politeness at least , if not from gratitude ...
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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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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 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.