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Even in the days of Sheridan, however, the conventions of the theatre were still essentially unreal. An actor entered a room by walking through the walls; stage furniture was formally arranged; and each act terminated with the players grouped in a semicircle and bowing obeisance to applause. The lines in Sheridan's comedies were indiscriminately witty.
While Griffin's division must be credited with this result, it may be said that their luck was due as much to the time as the manner of their appearance; the Rebel divisions of Pickett and Bushrod Johnston were, in the main, by the time Griffin came up, on their way westward to attack Sheridan's cavalry.
On the 21st of November, 1775, The Duenna was performed at Covent Garden, and the following is the original cast of the characters, as given in the collection of Mr. Sheridan's Dramatic Works: Don Ferdinand Mr. Mattocks. Isaac Mendoza Mr. Quick. Don Jerome Mr. Wilson. Don Antonio Mr. Dubellamy. Father Paul Mr. Watson. Lopez Mr. Wewitzer. Don Carlos Mr. Leoni. Francis Mr. Fox. Lay Brother Mr.
The honour of Sheridan's familiarity or supposed familiarity was better to my godfather than money. F. was the most gentlemanly of oilmen; grandiloquent, yet courteous. His delivery of the commonest matters of fact was Ciceronian.
This man's name was M.B. Medes, a trooper of the Sixth Michigan cavalry, then on detached service as a scout at Sheridan's headquarters, and never, since his miraculous escape, has he been able to talk about the experiences of that last scout without a fit of nervous prostration.
On the same page he also says, referring to the 6th of April: "The Sixth Corps now remained with the cavalry under Sheridan's direct command until after the surrender."
Robertson in his dialogue and construction imitated the modern French dramatists; Sheridan, the old English, Congreve, Farquhar and Wycherley. Robertson especially delighted in love-scenes there are generally two at least in each of his comedies: I cannot remember one in any of Sheridan's.
But for Wolf Sheridan's wife, this small, orderly, charming house on the edge of the New Jersey woods, and the laundry to think of every Monday, and the two-days' ordering to remember every Saturday, as long as the world went round!
Forty, the wife of a subsequent proprietor, was the subject of Sheridan's toast at the Prince Regent's table "Fair, Fat, and Forty."
"I would lay any wager, however, that Mr. , if he were here, would give it in my favour; and I suppose you will not dispute his authority." "I will not dispute the authority of Sheridan's Dictionary," cried Mr. Bolingbroke, taking it down from the book-case, and turning over the leaves hastily. "Sheridan gives it for me, my dear," said he, with exultation.
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