| William Earle - 1859 - 706 páginas
...right honourable gentleman's panegyric on my talents — if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption...characters — the character of the Angry Boy in the ' Alchemist.'" We believe we have before remarked on his extreme sensitiveness in the matter of his... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 páginas
...encouraged by the right hon. gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption...characters, the character of the Angry Boy, in the " Alchemist." ' The fury of Pitt, contrasted with the coolness of the man he had so shamefully attacked,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 páginas
...the composition he alludes to, I may be led by an act of presumption to attempt an improvement upon one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in the Alchemist." Sheridan himself was far superior to Pitt in what may be called the Comedy of Debate. Indeed,... | |
| Arthur Lloyd Windsor - 1860 - 428 páginas
...the composition he alludes to, I may be led by an act of presumption to attempt an improvement upon one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in the ' Alchemist.' ' Sheridan himself was far superior to Pitt in what may be called the Comedy of Debate.... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 520 páginas
...encouraged by the right hon. gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption...characters, the character of the Angry Boy, in the 'Alchemist.' " The fury of Pitt, contrasted with the coolness of the man he had so shamefully attacked,... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 páginas
...panegyric on his talents, and if he ever engaged again in the compositions to which he alluded, he might be tempted to an act of presumption, — to attempt...characters, — the character of the Angry Boy in The Alchemist. Nothing could have been better and bitterer than this retort ; and it pleased Sheridan so... | |
| Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 páginas
...ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption—to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry JBoy, in the 'Alchemist.'" Pitt wanted to lay a tax on every horse that started in a race. Lord Surrey,... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 páginas
...flattered and encouraged by the riI^ht honourable gentleman's panegyric on my talents, it ever I again engage in the composition he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — lo attempt an improvement on one of Ben Johnson's best characters, — the character of ' the angry... | |
| 1867 - 396 páginas
...the composition he alludes to, I may be led by an act of presumption to attempt an improvement upon one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in the Alchemist.' Sheridan himself was far superior to Pitt in what may be called the Comedy of Debate. Indeed,... | |
| 1905 - 1170 páginas
...reference to his plays, declared that "if ever again he engaged in the compositions alluded to, he might be tempted to an act of presumption to attempt an...characters — the character of the Angry Boy in the 'Alchemist.' " Burke's heavy-footed pleasantry suggested nothing better than that the Chancellor of... | |
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