Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… in short, in most kinds of company, and always found him very convivial and delightful.’ 3 3 . Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, 2 vols. (London: John Murray, 1830), p. 398. Lord Byron would add in his Journals , recalling Sheridan’s propensity for drinking, ‘Let me begin the evening with Sheridan [...] Sheridan for … It is populated by hypocrites and schemers and filled with dazzlingly witty conversations. Lord Byron recalled in his Journals that Sheridan told him ‘ that on the night of the grand success of his School for Scandal , he was knocked down …
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