 | 1862 - 838 pages
...the English Language, in 1780, was himself a man of talent. H!.s son was " The drama?i-?r, orator, minstrel, who ran through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all." died too soon for hie renown and the advantage of literature. The family list closes with Mrs. Norton,... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - 1863 - 482 pages
...Murray.— M. t Moore's Life of Sheridan, with all Its merit, (which li great,) did not give nfuU view of The orator, dramatist, minstrel— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all. M I.IT.' was too intimate with the heads of the Whig party to tell the whole truth. — M. JA romance,... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1864 - 350 pages
...School for Scandal. If the question under consideration were the literary abilities of its author — " The orator, dramatist, minstrel, who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all," there probably would be no difference of opinion. There can be but little doubt that Sheridan is entitled... | |
 | John Hughes - 1864 - 820 pages
...falsehood, and that we can say of liirn, but in a different sense, what the poet said of Sheridan — he "ran Through each mode of the lyre, And was master of all." » Time will not permit me to go into further details on this melancholy subject. I presume the public... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 pages
...isle that holds or held his dust Shall crown the Atlantic like the hero's bust." 1. " That high gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator, dramatist, minstrel, who ran Thro' each mode of the lyre, and was master of all." 2. " She had the Asiatic eye, Such as our Turkish... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...Persian's Heaven is eas'ly made, T is but black eyes and lemonade. Intercepted Letters. Letter vi. Who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all. On the Death of Sheridan. Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain... | |
 | 1869 - 384 pages
...! How bailiffs may seize his last blanket to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by princes to-morrow. Was this then the fate of that high-gifted man —...each mode of the lyre and was master of all. Whose eloquence, brightening whatever it tried — Whether reason or fancy, the gay or the grave, Was as... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 pages
...! How bailiffs may seize his last blanket to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by princes to-morrow. Was this then the fate of that high-gifted man —...each mode of the lyre and was master of all. Whose eloquence, brightening whatever it tried — Whether reason or fancy, the gay or the grave, Was as... | |
 | 1870 - 844 pages
...Russell ; Epes Sargent; Dr. Philip Schaff, critic and scholar ; John Sedden ; PB Shelley ; RB Sheridan, " The orator, dramatist, minstrel, who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all;" Sir Philip Sidney, last of the heroes of chivalry; John Skelton, poet; Adam Smith, father of political... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pages
...Gibbon. He who has written the two best comedies of his age is surely a considerable man. — Johnson. The orator, dramatist, minstrel, who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all ; 334 R1chard Brinsley Sheridan. Whose mind was an essence compounded with art From the finest and... | |
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Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator — dramatist — minstrel,— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all... 
