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Mrs. Malaprop: Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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If I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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Through all the drama — whether damned or not —
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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O Lord, Sir—when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
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Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting - more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!
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I ne'er could any luster see
In eyes that would not look on me.
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For I've read in many a novel that, unless they've souls that grovel, Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
Charles Stuart Calverley
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Born:
October 30, 1751
Died:
July 7, 1816
(aged 64)
Bio:
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Duenna and A Trip to Scarborough.
Known for:
The Rivals
The School for Scandal (1777)
The Critic (1806)
A Trip to Scarborough (1781)
St Patrick's Day
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