So the pair crawled off to their den dead beat,
With their Morley, Parnell, gammon and spinach,
The grey old fox and his Morley.
J. W. P.
St. Stephen’s Review. June 18, 1887.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.
Born in Dublin in 1751. Died, July 7, 1816.
Lord Byron said, “Whatever Sheridan has done, has been, par excellence, always the best of its kind. He has written the best comedy (“School for Scandal”), the best drama (“The Duenna”), the best farce (“The Critic”), and the best address (“Monologue on Garrick”); and, to crown all, delivered, the very best oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived, or heard in this country.”
In addition to The School for Scandal, The Duenna, and The Critic, Sheridan wrote St. Patrick’s Day, a farce; The Rivals, a comedy; A Trip to Scarborough (partly adapted from Sir J. Vanbrugh’s “Relapse,”) and Pizarro, a tragedy.