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Sheridan declared that he would accept a play from her without even reading it. Thus encouraged she wrote a comedy named The Witlings. Fortunately it was never acted or printed. We can, we think, easily perceive from the little which is said on the subject in the Diary, that The Witlings would have been damned, and that Murphy and Sheridan thought so, though they were too polite to say so.
Perhaps, too, a fear of the ridicule which an exhibition of modesty in man might draw down from certain slender witlings, from the young gentlemen, or even the young ladies, of Copenhagen, may have, in part, deterred him from a faithful portraiture.
Sheridan declared that he would accept a play from her without even reading it. Thus encouraged, she wrote a comedy named The Witlings. Fortunately it was never acted or printed. We can, we think, easily perceive, from the little which is said on the subject in the Diary, that The Witlings would have been damned, and that Murphy and Sheridan thought so, though they were too polite to say so.
The quick and subtle Arabian witlings redoubled their light attacks on the stately Spaniard, but when one of them, of the race of the Abencerrages dared to question, with a sneer, the immaculate conception of the blessed Virgin, the Catholic knight could no longer restrain his ire.
It is a subject, he says, that he has not of late treated so lightly. He owns it to be so trite, so beaten a topic with all libertines and witlings; so frothy, so empty, so nothing meaning, so worn-out a theme, that he is heartily ashamed of himself, ever to have made it his.
Few people have candour or patience enough to discriminate betwixt truth and its counterpart, when religion is to be investigated; and nothing is more common among the witlings, than a sneer at the bullion, because of its being occasionally blended with dross. But such behaviour has much stronger indications of spite than claims to the merit of ability or good sense.
They played at 'the stick burns, and the young poets played at 'heart-burns, and the witlings played off their jests, and the jests rolled away with a thundering sound, as if empty pots were being shattered against doors.
There they are shrewd enough to create new gods, which start up out of the earth like mushrooms. If it should only occur to them, they would raise murder to the dignity of god of gods, and you to be his high-priest." "That would be your office," interposed the philosopher. "You shall see," returned the emperor, laughing shrilly, "and the witlings of the Museum with you!
Then, again, those casual encounters of witlings in the world authorial, so anticipated by a hostess, so looked-forward-to by guests!
"Why is it impossible?" "Because " "Because what?" an audacious voice whispered. Why should he not? He stilled the voice, but it refused to be silent was obdurate, insistent, like Mary Ann herself. "Because oh, because of a hundred things," he told it. "Because she is no fit mate for me because she would degrade me, make me ridiculous an unfortunate fortune-hunter, the butt of the witlings.
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