 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 510 pages
...letter, without a date, from the same amiable writer, the following account of her death is given : — " The circumstances attending this melancholy event...assembled at your brother's to spend a joyous evening in danc* This bequest is thus announced by Sheridan himself in a letter to his sister, dated June 3. 1794... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 512 pages
...letter, without a date, from the same amiable writer, the following account of her death is given : — " The circumstances attending this melancholy event...young people were assembled at your brother's to spend ajoyous evening in danc* This bequest is thus announced by Sheridan himself in a letter to his sister,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 570 pages
...letter, without a date, from the same amiable writer, the following account of her death is given : — " The circumstances attending this melancholy event...the amusement, when the alarm was given, that the dearlittle angel was dying ! It is impossible to describe the confusion and horror of the scene : —... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 360 pages
...letter, without a date, from the same amiable writer, the following account of her death is given:— " The circumstances attending this melancholy event...evening in dancing. We were all in the height of our merriment.—he himself remarkably cheerful, and partaking of the amusement, when the alarm was given... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gabriel Sigmond - 1857 - 592 pages
...party was assembled at Sheridan 'i to spend a joyous evening in dancing, all were in the height of merriment ; he himself remarkably cheerful, and partaking...to describe the confusion and horror of the scene." His affliction was severe. The child, in death, was so like her mother that every one was struck with... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - English drama - 1902 - 432 pages
...large party was assembled at Sheridan's to spend a joyous evening in dancing; all were in the height of merriment; he himself remarkably cheerful, and partaking...to describe the confusion and horror of the scene." His affliction was severe. The child, in death, was so like her mother that every one was struck with... | |
 | Walter Sichel - Dramatists, English - 1909 - 610 pages
...attentive to everybody and everything, though grave and thoughtful," thus gives the catastrophe : — " We were all in the height of our merriment, he himself remarkably cheerful and partaking of the amusements, when the alarm was given, that the dear little angel was dying ! It is impossible to describe... | |
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The consolation which Sheridan derived from his little daughter was not long spared to him. In a letter, without a date, from the same amiable writer, the following account of her death is given : — " The circumstances attending this melancholy event... 