 | John Rothwell Slater - English language - 1913 - 368 pages
...you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner. — SIDNEY. The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. — SHERIDAN. ALL the world loves a story. " Once upon a time " is the magic phrase that draws a group... | |
 | Hanford Lennox Gordon - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1913 - 460 pages
...the green-eyed monster. — Shakespeare. That jest is a good one, it has stood the test of time. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Jew. Yer kin see 'im all day long, in front uf his clothin' shop, harpin'... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - English wit and humor - 1913 - 404 pages
...over thirty years, must be given. Very happy was his crushing reply to Dundas, " The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts." A long-winded member having paused in the midst of a tedious harangue to take a glass of water, Sheridan... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - English language - 1920 - 134 pages
...JERROLD. 4. He was as shy as a newspaper is in referring to its own merits. — MARK TWAIN. 5. The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. — RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. 6. A sure cure for sea-sickness — lie on your back under a tree. —... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...retort which Sheridan made in a speech in reply to Henry Dundas likewise sticks in the memory: " The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory...jests and to his imagination for his facts." William Cowper (1731-1800) spent most of his life in the country in strict retirement owing to a constitutional... | |
 | Lee Emerson Bassett - Elocution - 1917 - 376 pages
...what thou speakest may move, and what he hears may be believed. Shakespeare : Henry IV, I, ii. 2. The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. 3. What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support. Milton : Paradise Lost, I. 4. Words... | |
 | Arthur Lee - English language - 1917 - 340 pages
...not compare to a chain. 2. In the best books, great men give us their most precious thoughts. 3. The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. 4. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. CLASSIFICATION Nouns Blackmore's novel Lorna Doone... | |
 | Douglas Gordon Crawford - English language - 1919 - 398 pages
...whispered in one ear is heard over the whole town. 17. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 18. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory...for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. 19. — — seemed washing his hands with invisible soap, In imperceptible water. 20. A thing of beauty... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...an ornamental Urn. The trans, is by AKTHUR J. MDNBT. 4 The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted te ss RB SHERIDAN — Attributed to him in report of a Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. Not found in his works... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...to ruin or to rule the state. John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. RB Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist, politician There is one statesman of the present day... | |
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The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. 
