. Sheridan's comedies: . graphers are often too indolent or injudicious tocollect, and which the peaceful life of a man of letters usually suppliesin little abundance. From this injudicious indolence of biographersno man has suffered more than Richard Brinsley Sheridan. And forthis there is no better corrective than a reading of the Monody onthe Death of Sheridan, which Byron wrote, to be delivered at theopening of Drury Lane Theatre in the autumn. Two extracts fromByrons poem may serve fitly to close this brief and hasty summaryof Sheridans career and character : — But should there be to whom
. Sheridan's comedies: . graphers are often too indolent or injudicious tocollect, and which the peaceful life of a man of letters usually suppliesin little abundance. From this injudicious indolence of biographersno man has suffered more than Richard Brinsley Sheridan. And forthis there is no better corrective than a reading of the Monody onthe Death of Sheridan, which Byron wrote, to be delivered at theopening of Drury Lane Theatre in the autumn. Two extracts fromByrons poem may serve fitly to close this brief and hasty summaryof Sheridans career and character : — But should there be to whom the fatal blightOf failing wisdom yields a base delight —Men who exult when minds of heavenly toneJar in the music which was born their own —Still let them pause —at little do they knowThat what to them seemed vice might be but woe. Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain,And turn to all of him which may remain,Sighing that nature formed but one such man,And broke the die, in moulding Sheridan! THE
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