Date: 1775
"In this scenic province of instruction, our representations are much better calculated to answer the end proposed, than those of the Antients were, on account of the different hours of exhibition. Theirs were performed in the morning; which circumstance suffered the salutary effect to be worn ou...
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Date: 1775
Faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
The imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
A fellow may be forgotten--illiterated from the memory
preview | full record— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Date: 1775
One may carry with him "all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain"
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Date: 1775
"If there be but one vicious mind in the Set, 'twill spread like a contagion--the action of their pulse beats to the lascivious movement of the jigg--their quivering, warm-breath'd sighs impregnate the very air--the atmosphere becomes electrical to love, and each amorous spark darts thro' every l...
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Date: 1775
"If I wear a countenance of content, it is to shew that my mind holds no doubt of my Faulkland's truth."
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Date: 1775
"Yet--yet--perhaps your high respect alone for this solemn compact has fettered your inclinations, which else had made worthier choice."
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Date: 1775
"I'll wait till her just resentment is abated--and when I distress her so again, may I lose her for ever! and be linked instead to some antique virago, whose knawing passions, and long-hoarded spleen, shall make me curse my folly half the day, and all the night!"
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Date: 1775
Women, "like garden-trees," seldom show fruit, "till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom"
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