 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...clinching wit that catches hold of the popular mind. Nor was it much better in the second form : " , it is only when he states his facts that you admire the flights of his imagination." When finally the... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...clinching wit that catches hold of the popular mind. Nor was it much better in the second form : " When he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and it is only when he states his facts that you admire the flights of his imagination." When finally the... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1901 - 748 pages
...singular, and happened to find the character of moroseness unoccupied in the society he lived with. He certainly has a great deal of fancy and a very...accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only when he states his facts, that you admire the flights of his imagination.* A fat woman trundling into a room on castors... | |
 | 1902 - 732 pages
...fancy in his narrative and keeps his recollection for his wit." At a later period it appeared thus: "When he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and it is only when he states his facts that you admire his flights of imagination." Sheridan would not... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1902 - 1040 pages
...fancy in his narrative and keeps his recollection for his wit." At a later period it appeared thus: "When he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and it is only when he states his facts that you admire his flights of imagination." Sheridan would not... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1902 - 1042 pages
...fancy in his narrative and keeps his recollection for his wit." At a later period it appeared thus: "When he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and it is only when he states his facts that you admire his flights of imagination." Sheridan would not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1864 - 866 pages
...remember among the memorandums for his comedy of Affectation, and which in its first form ran thus : — " He certainly has a great deal of fancy and a very...other person does — for he employs his fancy in his narrât i v. ki v] >s his recollection for his wit : — when he i his jokes, you applaud the accuracy... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1909 - 732 pages
...to be found in the green-room, so to speak, of his notes:—" He employs his fancy in his narrative and keeps his recollections for his wit."—" When...jokes you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and it is only when he states his facts that you applaud the flight of his imagination." It should be noticed... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1928 - 386 pages
...singular, and happened to find the character of moroseness unoccupied in the society he lived with. He certainly has a great deal of fancy and a very...accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only when he states his facts, that you admire the flights of his imagination. strangled with bracelets, which belt them... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...the use he made of one of those epigrammatic passages . . . which, in its first form, ran thus:— 'He certainly has a great deal of fancy, and a very...employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit:— when he makes jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis... | |
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He certainly has a great deal of fancy, and a very good memory; but, with a perverse ingenuity, he employs these qualities as no other person does — for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his... 
