 | Cuyler Reynolds - Alcoholic beverages - 1902 - 504 pages
...ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. SHELLEY, Speech in reply to Mr. Dundas. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie ? We should... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1902 - 206 pages
...out." "The right honorable 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." During the Westminster election contest, owing to the tactics of some of Sheridan's supporters, one... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - Proverbs - 1904 - 500 pages
...the expense of his memory. Second-hand jokes. Cf. RB Sheridan (Reply to Mr Dundas): "The right hon. gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." 1953. On peut fitre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin que tous les autres. La Rochef., §... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1906 - 1198 pages
...worthily should be measured 'by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years.1 Pizarra. Actit. Se. i. The Eight Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.2 Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundat. Sheridaniana. You write with ease to show your breeding, But... | |
 | Edward Latham - Quotations - 1906 - 434 pages
...(1804-81)— in a speech on the opening of letters by government, Feb. 28, 1845. The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. RICHARD BRINSIEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816) — in the House of Commons, alluding to Mr. Dundas. (Sheridaniaua;... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...heterodoxy is another man's doxy, THOMAS WARBURTON, cited in Priestley's Memoirs 1Another reading is: Is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts, Out, — Launcelot and I are out,1 SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iii, 5 Outcast, — But suffer... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1864 - 866 pages
...extemporaneous air, he t it forth, in the following compact and pointed form : — " The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his ationfor bis facts."'* SHERIDAN'S FUNERAL. The brilliant assemblage at Westminster Abbey on the day... | |
 | 1909 - 602 pages
...reading the finished product, be justified in believing that the writer, in the words of Sheridan, was " indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts." There is a proverb to the effect that lookers-on see most of the game, but it would seem that, in justice... | |
 | 1909 - 654 pages
...reading the finished product, be justified in believing that the writer, in the words of Sheridan, was " indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts." There is a proverb to the effect that lookers-on see most of the game, but it would seem that, in justice... | |
 | Charles Henry Fowler - Presidents - 1910 - 374 pages
...practiced it upon Mr. Dundas in the House of Commons with the most extemporaneous air, saying, "The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests and to his imagination for his facts." This flash of wit was all the more cruel from the fact that it was itself almost as old as a mummy.... | |
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The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. 
