The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . , one is always sure to hear itfrom one d—d good-natured friend or another. LET THE TOAST PASS. Heres to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Heres to the widow of fifty ;Heres to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And heres to the housewife thats the toast to the lass,Ill warrant shell prove an excuse for the glass. Heres to the charmer whose dimples we prize,Now to the maid who
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . , one is always sure to hear itfrom one d—d good-natured friend or another. LET THE TOAST PASS. Heres to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Heres to the widow of fifty ;Heres to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And heres to the housewife thats the toast to the lass,Ill warrant shell prove an excuse for the glass. Heres to the charmer whose dimples we prize,Now to the maid who has none, sir ; Heres to the girl with a pair of blue eyes. And heres to the nymph with but one, the toast pass, etc. 30 RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Heres to the maid with a bosom of snow; Now to her thats as brown as a berry;Heres to the wife with a face full of woe, And now to the damsel thats merry. Let the toast pass, etc. For let *em be clumsy, or let em be slim, Young or ancient, I care not a fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim,So fill up your glasses, nay, fill to the brim,And let us een toast them together. Let the toast pass, etc.•^From T/ie School/or Scandal,. SHERLOCK, Thomas, an English bishop andreligious writer, born in London in 1678; diedthere, July 18, 1761. He was educated at Etonand Cambridge ; became Master of the Temple in1704, Vice-Chancellor of his college in 1714, Deanof Chichester in 1716, and Prebendary of Nor-wich in 1719. He was made Bishop of Bangor in1728, was transferred to the see of Salisbury in1734, and to that of London in 1748, having de-clined the Archbishopric of Canterbury. Hisprincipal works are The Use and Intent of Prophecjy{i72$); The Trial of the Witnesses to the Resur-rection of Jesus (1729); Discourses at i/te TempleChurchy London (4 vols., 1754-58). Sherlock, says the Rev. Sydney Smith, isan oasis in Church literature. ** The calm anddispassionate disquisition, says the Quarterly Re-view {inXyy 1823), on so
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