Sheridan: From New and Original Material, Including a Manuscript Diary by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin, 1909 |
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... NIGHT , DECEMBER 30 , 1788 " III . GEORGIANA , DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE'S ( November 20 , 1788 - January 12 , 1789 ) IV . LETTERS FROM SHERIDAN TO THE DUCHESS OF DEVON- 393 DIARY • 397 • 429 PUBLISHED • 445 • 461 SHIRE AND HER SISTER ...
... NIGHT , DECEMBER 30 , 1788 " III . GEORGIANA , DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE'S ( November 20 , 1788 - January 12 , 1789 ) IV . LETTERS FROM SHERIDAN TO THE DUCHESS OF DEVON- 393 DIARY • 397 • 429 PUBLISHED • 445 • 461 SHIRE AND HER SISTER ...
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... night . " Next followed what can only be compared to a scrim- mage in an auction - room . Shelburne , hoping to remain , bid for Pitt ; North even meditated a bid for Shelburne ; Fox , plied to bid for Pitt , could not bring himself to ...
... night . " Next followed what can only be compared to a scrim- mage in an auction - room . Shelburne , hoping to remain , bid for Pitt ; North even meditated a bid for Shelburne ; Fox , plied to bid for Pitt , could not bring himself to ...
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... night of December 8 the supreme moment of the third reading arrived . Fox would brook no delay , the division must be taken . In vain did Scott quote Desdemona's prayer ( and with the more sting because Fox's complexion matched ...
... night of December 8 the supreme moment of the third reading arrived . Fox would brook no delay , the division must be taken . In vain did Scott quote Desdemona's prayer ( and with the more sting because Fox's complexion matched ...
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... night the Whig leaders assembled at Burlington House . Mrs. Tickell wrote that Sheridan was now the mainstay of his party ; that one of their meetings took place at his own abode ; and that he was on the spot , hard at work , when ...
... night the Whig leaders assembled at Burlington House . Mrs. Tickell wrote that Sheridan was now the mainstay of his party ; that one of their meetings took place at his own abode ; and that he was on the spot , hard at work , when ...
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... night and often renewed the subject of my father . He is , I think , greatly altered ; he is altogether a much larger man than I had formed an idea of— has a good deal of scurvy in his face , in his manner very kind , but rather graver ...
... night and often renewed the subject of my father . He is , I think , greatly altered ; he is altogether a much larger man than I had formed an idea of— has a good deal of scurvy in his face , in his manner very kind , but rather graver ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
¹ Cf afterwards Begums Bessborough British Burke Burke's Carlton House cause Chancellor Charles Chunar Coalition Constitution Creevey Crewe Crown debate Diary Drury Lane Duchess of Devonshire Duke of Portland Dundas East India Bill edition Elizabeth Sheridan England father favour February Fitzherbert Fox's Corr Foxites France French Fyzabad George Government Grenville Grey heart Holland hoped House of Commons impeachment India Bill Ireland Irish Jenkinson Journal King King's Lady later LeFanu letter London Lord Lord Holland Lord Shelburne ment minister ministry Moore motion nation never night North once Opposition Oude papers Parliament party peace Pitt Pitt's political present Prince of Wales Prince's proved Queen R. B. Sheridan reform Regency RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Rockingham Rolliad royal Shelburne Sheridan MSS Sheridan's speech sister spoke Thurlow Tickell told treaty vote Warren Hastings Warren Hastings's Westminster Whig whole wife wish words Wraxall writes wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 72 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 385 - Is fiVd for ever to detract or praise ; Repose denies her requiem to his name, And Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. The secret enemy whose sleepless eye Stands sentinel — accuser — judge — and spy, The foe — the fool — the jealous — and the vain, The envious who but breathe in others...
Página 384 - But should there be to whom the fatal blight Of failing Wisdom yields a base delight, Men who exult when minds of heavenly tone Jar in the music which was born their own, Still let them pause — ah ! little do they know That what to them seem'd Vice might be but Woe.
Página 15 - ... good humour. Nay, I will say more: flattered and encouraged by the right honourable gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions...
Página 419 - Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
Página 383 - The flash of Wit, the bright Intelligence, The beam of Song, the blaze of Eloquence, Set with their Sun, but still have left behind The enduring produce of immortal Mind ; Fruits of a genial morn, and glorious noon, A deathless part of him who died too soon.
Página 394 - ... In the state of deep distress, in which the prince and the whole royal family were involved by the heavy calamity which has fallen upon the king, and at a moment when government deprived of its chief energy and support, seemed peculiarly to need the cordial and united aid of all descriptions of good subjects, it was not expected by the prince, that a plan should be offered to his consideration, by which government was to be rendered difficult, if not impracticable, in the hands of any person...
Página 144 - When the loud cry of trampled Hindostan Arose to Heaven in her appeal from man, His was the thunder, his the avenging rod, The wrath — the delegated voice of God ! Which shook the nations through his lips, and blazed Till vanquish'd senates trembled as they praised.
Página 57 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 242 - London, who had found out that there was at the King's Arms in Cornhill a Debating Society, where principles of the most dangerous tendency were propagated ; where people went to buy treason at sixpence a head ; where it was retailed to them by the glimmering of an inch of candle ; and five minutes, to be measured by the glass, were allowed to each traitor to perform his part in overturning the State.