Part 76 (1/2)

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 1751-1816.

_The Rivals_. Act v. Sc. 3.

As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

_The Critic_. Act ii. Sc. 1.

My valor is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were at the pain, of my hands.

Act ii. Sc. 2.

Where they do agree, their unanimity is wonderful.

_School for Scandal_. Act i. Sc. 1.

You shall see a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Act iii. Sc. 3.

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.

Let the toast pa.s.s; Drink to the la.s.s; I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the gla.s.s.

_The Duenna_. Act i. Sc. 2.

I ne'er could any l.u.s.tre 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.

_Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas_.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

GEORGE CRABBE.