That we, lest they their rights should lose, No man e'er felt the halter draw, McFingal. Canto i. Line 121 Canto iii. Line 489. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. 1751–1816. Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2. "T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. Ibid. A progeny of learning. Ibid. A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. Act iii. Sc. 1. Sc. 3. He is the very pine-apple of politeness! If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! Ibid. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Too civil by half. Ibic. Sc. 4. Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. Act iv. Sc. 1. No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman. Sc. 2. We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,our retrospection will be all to the future. Ibid. You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Ibid The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 3. You're our enemy; lead the way, and we'll precede. There's nothing like being used to a thing.1 Act v. Sc. 1. Sc. 3. As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. Ibid. My valour is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel i oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands! I own the soft impeachment. Ibid. Ibid. Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, to make 'em pass for their own.2 disfigure them The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1. most villanous, The newspapers! Sir, they are the licentious, abominable, infernal Not that I ever read them! No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. Sc. 2. Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! Ibid. Sheer necessity, the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. Ibid. No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope? Act ii. Sc. 1. Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. Ibid. Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful. Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne. Sc. 2. Ibid. The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because — it is not yet in sight! Ibid. 1 'T is nothing when you are used to it. -SWIFT: Polite Conversation, iii. 2 See Churchill, page 413. An oyster may be crossed in love. The Critic. Act in. Sc. 1 You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1. Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word. I leave my character behind me. Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Act ii. Sc. 2. Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, Drink to the lass; Ibid. I'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass. Act iii. Sc. 3. An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting coun tenance. It was an amiable weakness.1 I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. Act v. Sc. 1. Ibid. The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 2. Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. Sc. 5. Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide. Act ii. Sc. 4. Pizarro. The Prologue. Such protection as vultures give to lambs. 1 See Fielding, page 364. Act ii. Sc. 2. A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, by deeds, not years.1 Pizarro. Act iv. Sc. 1. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.2 Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. Sheridaniana. You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing 's curst hard reading. Clio's Protest. Life of Sheridan (Moore). Vol. i. p. 155. PHILIP FRENEAU. 1752-1832. The hunter and the deer a shade. The Indian Burying-Ground. Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Oh, rather give me commentators plain, The Parish Register. Parti. Introduction. 1 He who grown aged in this world of woe, BYRON Childe Harold, canto iii, stanza 5. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths. · BAILEY: Festus. A Country Town. Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours. DU BARTAS: Days and Weekes. Fourth Day. Book ii. 2 On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory). —LE SAGE: Gil Blas, livre iii. chap. xi. 3 This line was appropriated by Campbell in "O'Connor's Child.” 4 When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield. 5 See Young, page 311. SCOTT Marmion, Introduction to canto iii. Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; The Parish Register. Part ii. Marriages, In this fool's paradise he drank delight.' The Borough. Letter xii. Players. Books cannot always please, however good; Letter xxiv. Schools. In idle wishes fools supinely stay; The Birth of Flattery. Cut and come again. Tules. Tale vii. The Widow's Tale. Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.2 Tale xiv. The Struggles of Conscience. But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. 'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good. He tried the luxury of doing good. Tale xxi. The Learned Boy. 4 Tales of the Hall. Book iii. Boys at School. To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent. Ibid. And took for truth the test of ridicule." 1 See Appendix, page 858. Book viii. The Sisters. 2 'T is better to have loved and lost, TENNYSON: In Memoriam, zzvii. 8 For right is right, since God is God. - FABER: The Right must win. 4 See Goldsmith, page 394. To sigh, yet feel no pain. — MOORE: The Blue Stocking. 6 See Appendix, page 394. |