 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...principles is derived probability; but truth, or certainty, is obtained only from facts. FALSE. The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. /Sheridan. FOOD то THE MIND. Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...line, — hy deeds, not years.1 Pizarro. Act ™. Sc. i. The Right Honorahle gentleman is indehted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.2 Speech in Eeply to Mr. Dandos. Sheridaniana. Yon write with ease to show yonr hreeding, Bnt... | |
 | American periodicals - 1892 - 960 pages
...Sheridan, in replying to a speech made by Dundas, declared that " the right honorable gentleman was indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts," he achieved a consummate oratorical feat ; for he infused into a delicate adjustment of ordinary vocables... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Anecdotes - 1893 - 210 pages
...T~'HE right honourable gentleman," said Sheridan, replying to Mr Dundas in the House of Commons, " is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." TX7HEN perusing Vortigern, the forged play ascribed to Shakespeare, Sheridan remarked, turning to Ireland... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - American essays - 1893 - 244 pages
...fretful care and poisonous recollections. So, too, when Sheridan said of Mr. Dundas that he resorted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts, the great wit, after the fashion of wits, expressed a limited truth. It was a delightful statement... | |
 | G. Steel - English language - 1894 - 320 pages
...the butcher's knife decreed, Her voice entreats him not to make her bleed. 8. The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. 9. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. 10. Piece out our imperfections... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - Essays - 1895 - 374 pages
...Sheridan, in replying to a speech made by Dundas, declared that " the right honourable gentleman was indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for. his facts," he achieved a consummate oratorical feat ; for he infused into a delicate adjustment of ordinary vocables... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Which now is sad because it hath been sweet. q. SHELLEY — Prometheus Unbound. Act II. Sc. 1. The is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song ! k. SAPPHO — Fragments. J. 9. Easby Smi ; TRB SHERIDAN — Speech in Reply to Mr. Dutidas. Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...Sat. XVI. " The rest is silence." SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V., Sc. II. " The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." SHERIDAN. Speech in the House of Commons, in reply to Mr. Dundas. " The ripest fruit first falls."... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years.1 Pizarro. Act in. Sc. i. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.8 Speech in Eeply to Mr. Dundas. Sheridaniana. You write with ease to show your breeding, But... | |
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The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. 
