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" The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. "
The Aurora Borealis: Or Flashes of Wit; Calculated to Drown Dull Care and ... - Page 126
1831 - 216 pages
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands. 76., act v. sc. 3. The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, — and to his imagination for his facts. Speech in reply to Mr. Dvndis. 198. Thomas Chatterton, 1752-1770. (Handbook, pars. 216, 239.) The Mynstrelle's...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...driven away. Indeed, our first parents were not to be deprived of it. RlCHTER. The Right Honourable epresentation. We should perceive, in a thousand slight touches, the importance of the p RB SHERIDAN. No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is confined to the present moment. A man is the...
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Dictiony of English literature

William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...SHERIDAN, in the course of his reply to a speech by Dundas, said that " the right honourable gentleman was indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." Imitatione Christi, De. See KEMPIS, A. Imitations of English Poets, by ALEXANDER POPE (1688 — 1744)...
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Beeton's Complete orator, including the art of public speaking, and British ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 336 pages
...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 was one day much annoyed by a fellow-member of the House of Commons, who kept crying out...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. то. SHELLEY— Toa Skylark. St. 18. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. n. SHFiRTDAN — Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. m. SHELLEY— To a Skylark. St. IK. The ts on Various Subjects. hie imagination for his facts, n. SHEBIDAN — Speech in Reply in Mr. Dundas. The sweet remembrance...
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Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed

Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years.4 Act iv. Sc. ]. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.8 Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundat. Shtridaniana. You write with ease to show your breeding, But...
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The Literary World, Volume 14

Books - 1883 - 502 pages
...Nature was But an apprentice; but woman, when she Was a skillful mistress of her art." Anon. 67. *' The gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests ; and to his imagination for his facts." Sheridan. " Ou peut derè que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire." /,-' Sage. 68. " It is...
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Moon Lore

Timothy Harley - Moon - 1885 - 326 pages
...inventus. Of many an ancient story-teller we may say, as Sheridan said of Dundas, " the right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts." Mr. Proctor reminds us that "according to German nurses, the day was not the Sabbath, but Sunday. Their...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations, English and Latin: With an Appendix ...

Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. m. SHELLEY— To a Skylark. St. 1H. The Rijjht Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for las facts. n. SHEKLUAN — Speech in Reply to .Vr. Dundat. The sweet remembrance of the just Shall...
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