Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volumes 1-2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 - 719 páginas |
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... political expediency - not even the * The converse assertion is almost equally true . Mr. Fox used to ask of a printed speech , Does it read well ! " and if answered in the affirmative , said , " Then it was a bad speech . " secret ...
... political expediency - not even the * The converse assertion is almost equally true . Mr. Fox used to ask of a printed speech , Does it read well ! " and if answered in the affirmative , said , " Then it was a bad speech . " secret ...
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... Politics are of the day , but Literature is of all time — and , though it was in the power of the orator , in his brief moment of triumph , to throw a lustre over the historian by a passing epithet , * the name of the latter will , at ...
... Politics are of the day , but Literature is of all time — and , though it was in the power of the orator , in his brief moment of triumph , to throw a lustre over the historian by a passing epithet , * the name of the latter will , at ...
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... to say frankly to his political friends , when invited to take part in some ques- tion that depended upon authorities , " You know I'm an ignoramus - but here I am - instruct me , and I'll do my best . " It R. B. SHERIDAN . 47.
... to say frankly to his political friends , when invited to take part in some ques- tion that depended upon authorities , " You know I'm an ignoramus - but here I am - instruct me , and I'll do my best . " It R. B. SHERIDAN . 47.
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... closing words , " My Lords , I have done ! " The Impeachment of Warren Hastings is one of those pageants in the drama of public life , which VOL . II . 5 show how fleeting are the labours and triumphs of politicians— R. B. SHERIDAN . 49.
... closing words , " My Lords , I have done ! " The Impeachment of Warren Hastings is one of those pageants in the drama of public life , which VOL . II . 5 show how fleeting are the labours and triumphs of politicians— R. B. SHERIDAN . 49.
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Thomas Moore. show how fleeting are the labours and triumphs of politicians— “ what shadows they are , and what shadows they pursue . " When we consider the importance which the great actors in that scene attached to it , -the grandeur ...
Thomas Moore. show how fleeting are the labours and triumphs of politicians— “ what shadows they are , and what shadows they pursue . " When we consider the importance which the great actors in that scene attached to it , -the grandeur ...
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