Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Cited by
- Frances Brody (1)
- IN: Death of an Avid Reader (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
FROM: The Rivals, (1775), Play, Ireland
- William Linley (1)
- IN: Forbidden Apartments (1800) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Things just so strange, that though they never did, yet they might happen"
FROM: Critic, (1779), Play, Ireland
- Jane West (1)
- IN: A Tale of the Times (1799) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: While Hope pictures to us a flattering scene os suture Miffe let us deny its pencil thofe colours which are too bright to be lasting— When hearts deferving happ ness woula unite their sortune, Virtue would crown tnem with an unsading garland os modest, hurtksi flowers ; buc ill- judging passion will sorce the gaudier rofe intothe wreath, whose tborn offends them when its leaves are dropt.
FROM: Rivals, (1775), Play, Ireland