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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan written by Thomas Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1825, Thomas Moore's two-volume account of the turbulent life of playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816).

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of the Rt Hon Richard Brinsley Sheridan written by Thomas Moore and published by Publio Kiadó Kft.. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Brinsley [Footnote: He was christened also by the name of Butler, after the Earl of Lanesborough.] Sheridan was born in the month of September, 1751, at No. 12, Dorset Street, Dublin, and baptized in St. Mary's Church, as appears by the register of the parish, on the fourth of the following month. His grandfather, Dr. Sheridan, and his father, Mr. Thomas Sheridan, have attained a celebrity, independent of that which he has conferred on them, by the friendship and correspondence with which the former was honored by Swift, and the competition and even rivalry which the latter so long maintained with Garrick. His mother, too, was a woman of considerable talents, and affords one of the few instances that have occurred, of a female indebted for a husband to her literature; as it was a pamphlet she wrote concerning the Dublin theatre that first attracted to her the notice of Mr. Thomas Sheridan. Her affecting novel, Sidney Biddulph, could boast among its warm panegyrists Mr. Fox and Lord North; and in the Tale of Nourjahad she has employed the graces of Eastern fiction to inculcate a grave and important moral,—putting on a fairy disguise, like her own Mandane, to deceive her readers into a taste for happiness and virtue.