...lexicographer. " Sir, it is burning a candle at Dover to show light at Calais." But when Johnson says, "Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull: but it must...Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in nature." — we acknowledge the wit, but doubt the fact. Thomas Sheridan very likely wanted humour, and was...

...Johnson graphically described these persons in his account of the conversation of the elder Sheridan : " Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must...become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity is not in nature." Yet never will you extort from such persons the admission that their ill-success...

...saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure in circulating: " Wny, sir, Sherry is dull; naturally dull : but it must...Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in nature. " He now added: "Sheridan cannot bear me. I biing his declamation to a point. I ask him a plain question,...

...ditch and tumbling into it." He laughed heartily when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure...dull ; but it must have taken him a great deal of 1 This opinion was given by him more at large at a subsequent period. See Journal of a Tour to the...

...ditch and tumbling into it." He laughed heartily when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure...dull ; but it must have taken him a great deal of 1 This opinion was given by him more at large at a subsequent period. See Journal of a Tour to the...

...theme of certain of Johnson's most pungent sarcasms. " Why, sir," said the Doctor on one occasion, " Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have...become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity is not in nature." Sheridan was educated at Harrow, and his first production was a translation of a...

...3. Sheridan, Thomas : ' HE laughed heartily when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan which Foote took a wicked pleasure...me. I bring his declamation to a point. I ask him a plain question, What do you mean to teach ? Besides, Sir, what influence can Mr. Sheridan have upon...

...and tumbling into it." He laughed heartily, when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure...taken him a great deal of pains to become what we • This opinion was given by him more at large at a subsequent period. See " Journal of a Tour to...

...saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure to circulate. ' Wily, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must...pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess nf stupidity is not in nature.' — 'So,' said he, 'I allowed him all his own Merit. He now added,...

...laughed heartily when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Poote took a wicked pleasure to circulate. " Why, Sir, Sherry...me. I bring his declamation to a point. I ask him a plain question, ' What do you mean to teach ? ' Besides, Sir, what influence can Mr. Sheridan have...