Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Rogers’s, 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 , … company of lifeguards’ ; ‘ Sheridan’s humour, or rather wit, was always saturnine, and sometimes savage’ (Moore, Letters of Lord Byron, 400) and exemplified the best sociable company. In his Monody on the Death of the Right Honorable … and Edited by a Constitutional Friend, 5 vols. (London: Patrick Martin, 1816). 7 . See Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ed. Cecil Price, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966). S. W. Fores, ‘A scene in …
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