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Any force moving down the road I am holding, or on the White Oak road, will be in the enemy's rear, and in all probability get any force that may escape you by a flank movement. Do not fear my leaving here. If the enemy remains, I shall fight at daylight. "P. H. SHERIDAN, Major-General." With daylight came a slight fog, but it lifted almost immediately, and Merritt moved Custer and Devin forward.
By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 2 vols. 4to. London: 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work.
After halting a few moments to reorganize the troops, who had become somewhat scattered in the assault of the hill, General Sheridan pushed forward in pursuit, and drove those in his front who had escaped capture across Chickamauga Creek."
I was often in his company, and heard him frequently expatiate upon Johnson's extraordinary knowledge, talents, and virtues, repeat his pointed sayings, describe his particularities, and boast of his being his guest sometimes till two or three in the morning. At his house I hoped to have many opportunities of seeing the sage, as Mr Sheridan obligingly assured me I should not be disappointed.
Sheridan observed, upon my mentioning it to him, 'He liked your compliment so well, he was willing to take it with PUN SAUCE. For my own part, I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed; and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. Mr. Burke uniformly shewed Johnson the greatest respect; and when Mr.
He looks dreadfully ill, but he has pleasant eyes, and it struck me that if if one were in the Sheridan family" she laughed a little ruefully "he might be interesting to talk to sometimes, when there was too much stocks and bonds. I didn't see him after dinner." "There must be something wrong with him," said Mrs. Vertrees. "They'd have introduced him if there wasn't." "I don't know.
You ought to be able to make up for a lot o' lost time and a lot o' spilt milk when that woman takes herself out o' the way and lets you and all the rest of us alone." "It's no use, father, I tell you. I know what Gurney was going to say to you. I'm not going back to the office. I'm DONE!" "Wait a minute before you talk that way!" Sheridan began his sentry-go up and down the room.
Sheridan was interrogated, and, at the request of the Princesse de Lamballe, he presented, for the Queen's inspection, plans nearly equal to those of the above two great statesmen; and what is most singular and scarcely credible is that one and all of the opposition party in England strenuously exerted themselves for the upholding of the monarchy in France.
The following incident illustrates this remarkable power of "Little Phil": At the battle of Five Forks, which took place near Richmond the next spring , a wounded soldier in the line of battle near Sheridan stumbled and was falling behind his regiment.
It is a simple fact that since Sheridan we have had no dramatist who combined very high acting with very high literary merit. Of what have been called the applied departments of literature, a somewhat less melancholy account has to be given; but, except in their enormous multiplication of quantity, they present few opportunities for remarks of a general character.
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