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| A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. |
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Richard Brinsley
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| 1751–1816, English dramatist and politician, b. Dublin. His masterpieces are The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777), comedies of manners that blend the brilliant wit of the Restoration with 18th-century sensibility. Both plays affectionately satirize fashionable society with its materialism, gossip, and hypocrisy.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  sh r´ -dn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- The School for Scandal
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XVIII, Part 2.
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- Bartlett’s Sheridan Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 53985 to 54006
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT SHERIDAN
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- “Georgian Drama”
Chapter by Harold V. Routh with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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