Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… of the fire rushing from Parliament, he is said to have watched his Drury Lane Theatre burn to the ground at the Piazza Coffee-House , drinking and wittingly remarking ‘A man may surely be able to take a glass of wine by his own fireside’ …
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