Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists.

Sheridan declared that he would accept a play from her without even reading it.

We can, we think, easily perceive from the little which is said on the subject in the Diary, that The Witlings would have been damned, and that Murphy and Sheridan thought so, though they were too polite to say so.

When the tumult had subsided, Sheridan observed, "that the honourable gentleman was perfectly in order, since, thanks to the ministry, everything at that time was immoderately dear.

DUENNA (The), a comic opera by R. B. Sheridan (1773).

[Illustration] "Sir Anthony Absolute," in The Rivals (Sheridan); "Sir Peter Teazle," in The School for Scandal (Sheridan).

[Illustration] "Sir Anthony Absolute," in The Rivals (Sheridan); "Sir Peter Teazle," in The School for Scandal (Sheridan).

Sheridan, Pizarro (altered from Kotzebue, 1799).

"Sheridan's Elocution, p. 145.

"Sheridan's Elocution, p. 4.

"Sheridan's Elocution, p. 65.

"Sheridan's Lect., p. 80; Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 244.

'"Sheridan's Elocution, p. 175.

"Sheridan's Elocution, p. 137.

"Sheridan's Elocution, p. 138.

Of accent Murray published about as many different definitions, as did Sheridan; which, as they show what notions he had at different times, it may not be amiss for some, who hold him always in the right, to compare.

Here we see a curious jumble of the common idea of accent, as "stress laid on some particular syllable of a word," with Sheridan's doctrine of accenting always "a particular letter of a syllable,"an idle doctrine, contrived solely for the accommodation of short quantity with long, under the accent.

Here we see a revival and an abundant propagation of Sheridan's erroneous doctrine, that our accent produces both short quantity and long, according to its seat; and since none of all these grammars, but the first two of Murray's, give any other rules for the discrimination of quantities, we must infer, that these were judged sufficient.

Suffice it to observe, that they divide certain accented syllables into long and short, and say nothing of the unaccented; whereas it is plain, and acknowledged even by Murray and Sheridan themselves, that in "ant, bonnet, hunger" and the like, the unaccented syllables are the only short ones: the rest can be, and here are, lengthened.

Sheridan the elecutionist makes this distinction: "All that passes in the mind of man, may be reduced to two classes, which I call ideas and emotions.

"Sheridan's Art of Reading; Blair's Lectures, p. 333.

"Sheridan's Elocution, p. xiv.

SHERIDAN'S ELOCUTION, Introd., p. viii, dated "July 10, 1762," 2d Amer.

Sheridan says, "The essence of a syllable consists in articulation only, for every articulate sound of course forms a syllable.

Illustrated by John E. Sheridan.