 | 1821 - 464 páginas
...How should I ? I have never stooped to the means of acquiring it. LXXIII. WILLIAM DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. WILLIAM, duke of Cumberland, gave promises of talents...accomplished. One day he had given some offence to his royal mother, and was remanded to the confinement of his chamber. After what the queen thought a sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 524 páginas
...extemporaneous air, he brought it forth, in the following compact and pointed form : — " The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts," His Political Character stands out so fully HH 4' CHAP. in these pages, that it is needless, by any... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 páginas
...extemporaneous air, he brought it forth, in the following compact and pointed form : — " The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." His Political Character stands out so fully in these pages, that it is needless, by any comments, to... | |
 | 1826 - 792 páginas
...temporancous air, he brought it forth in the following compact ' and pointed form : — ' The right honourable gentleman is indebted ' to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.'" Ah ! Mr Sheridan, mutato nomine de tefabula narratur. Some instances are given of his adroitness, not... | |
 | 1826 - 868 páginas
...extemporaneous air, he brought it forth, in the following compact and pointed form : —' The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts."" At the latter period of his days, about 1789-90, we are told, " Of his happiness, at the period of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1830 - 356 páginas
...of Heaven, while the English lament and groan without end," &c. LXXIII. WILLIAM DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. WILLIAM, Duke of Cumberland, gave promises of talents...accomplished. One day he had given some offence to his royal mother, and was remanded to the confinement of his chamber. After what the queen thought a sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 520 páginas
...extemporaneous air, he brought it forth, in the following compact and pointed form : — " The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." His Political Character stands out so fully in these pages, that it is needless, by any comments, to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 páginas
...extemporaneous air, he brought it forth, in the following compact and pointed form : — " The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." ' * SHERIDAN'S FUNERAL. The brilliant assemblage at Westminster Abbey nn the day of Sheridan's funeral... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 páginas
...REPARTEE. IN reply to some observations of Mr Dundas in the House of Commons, Sheridan observed — "The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." THE POOR OLD LION. A FABLE. A LIOM, who was so much worn out with age that he had lost his strength,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 páginas
...REPARTEE. IN reply to some observations of Mr Dundas in the House of Commons, Sheridan observed — " The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." THE POOR OLD LION. A FABLE. A LION, who was so much worn out with age that he had lost his strength,... | |
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The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. 
