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" Your questions are without point or epigram." Meeting Sheridan Beau BrummeU said : " My brain is swimming, Sherry, with being up all night ; how can I cure it ? " " You have mistaken your complaint," retorted Sheridan, " there can be no swimming in a caput moriuum." On another occasion, too, he scored off the Beau, but rather with bluntness than the sharpness of wit. He had met BrummeU in Fleet Street and the Beau expressed his horror at being found east of Temple Bar. Sheridan professed, too..., that meeting him there was almost incred- ible. " You ! come from the east ! " he exclaimed, " im- possible ! " " Why, my de-ar sa-ar ? " drawled BrummeU.
' ' Because the wise men came from the East, ' ' was Sheridan' s reply. " So then, sa-ar," demanded the other, " you think me a fool ? " " By no means," said Sheridan ; " I know you to be one." Very happy was this epigram in reply to Lord Erskine who, in a crowded company, had declared that " a wife i6o A BOOK OF FAMOUS WITS was only a tin canister tied to one's tail." Sheridan, appropriately handed the lines to Lady Erskine : " Lord Erskine J at women presuming to raU, Calls a wife ' a tin canister tied to one's tail 1 ' And the fair Lady Anne while the subject he carries on, Seems htirt at his Lordship's degrading comparison : But wherefore degrading ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" Your questions are without point or epigram." Meeting Sheridan Beau BrummeU said : " My brain is swimming, Sherry, with being up all night ; how can I cure it ? " " You have mistaken your complaint," retorted Sheridan, " there can be no swimming in a caput moriuum." On another occasion, too, he scored off the Beau, but rather with bluntness than the sharpness of wit. He had met BrummeU in Fleet Street and the Beau expressed his horror at being found east of Temple Bar. Sheridan professed, too..., that meeting him there was almost incred- ible. " You ! come from the east ! " he exclaimed, " im- possible ! " " Why, my de-ar sa-ar ? " drawled BrummeU.
' ' Because the wise men came from the East, ' ' was Sheridan' s reply. " So then, sa-ar," demanded the other, " you think me a fool ? " " By no means," said Sheridan ; " I know you to be one." Very happy was this epigram in reply to Lord Erskine who, in a crowded company, had declared that " a wife i6o A BOOK OF FAMOUS WITS was only a tin canister tied to one's tail." Sheridan, appropriately handed the lines to Lady Erskine : " Lord Erskine J at women presuming to raU, Calls a wife ' a tin canister tied to one's tail 1 ' And the fair Lady Anne while the subject he carries on, Seems htirt at his Lordship's degrading comparison : But wherefore degrading ?
What to read after A book of Famous Wits?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Jerrold Walter to read onlineMoreLess
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