 | James Boaden - 1825 - 650 pages
...for unconscious plagiarism. "Faded ideas," says Mr. Sheridan, "float in the fancy like half forgotten dreams ; and imagination, in its fullest enjoyments,...suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has rreated or adopted." How this admirable comedy was acted, I have already observed, as to its principal... | |
 | James Boaden - 1825 - 646 pages
...for unconscious plagiarism. "Faded ideas," says Mr. Sheridan, "float in the fancy like half fprgotten dreams ; and imagination, in its fullest enjoyments,...suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it hag. created or adopted." How this admirable comedy was acted, I have already observed, as to its principal... | |
 | 1826 - 1004 pages
...ideas float on the mind likelialf-forgotten dreamf., and imagination, in its most suspicious moments, becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted." To persons placed in the same situation the same thoughts will naturally occur, and it was lUtle worth... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 pages
...in azure air, — O'er the vast Sea, and with the silent stars above ! A SHORT PLEA FOR "A .TOE." " Imagination, in its fullest enjoyments, becomes suspicious...offspring, and doubts whether it has created, or adopted." — SHERIDAN. " Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall ю cureless ruin." — SHAKSPEARE. " ACCURSED,"... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1840 - 346 pages
...invention is slow of exerting itself. Faded ideas float in the fancy like half- forgot ten dreams ; and the imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious...offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted. With regard to some particular passages which on the first night's representation seemed generally... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 340 pages
...Faded ideas float in the mind like half forgotten dreams, and imagination in its fullest enjoyment becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted it." In the language of Dryden, (if he may be permitted to apply it,) " My chief delight is to amuse... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 186 pages
...invention is slow of exerting itself. Faded ideas float inthefancy like half-forgotten dreams ; and the imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it hna created or adopted. With regard to some particular passages which on the first night's representation... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Gabriel Sigmond - 1857 - 592 pages
...invention is slow of exerting itself. Faded, ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams ; and the imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious...offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted. With regard to some particular passages which on the first night's representation seemed generally... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, James P. Browne, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 358 pages
...invention is slow in exerting itself. Faded ideas float in the fancy like half- forgotten dreams ; and the imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious...offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted. With regard to some particular passages which on the first night's representation seemed generally... | |
 | 1874 - 992 pages
...Sheridan (who was a plagiai ist) — " Faded ideas float in the fancy like half-forgotten dreams, and the imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious...offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted. In Lloyd's prologue to Colman's "Jealous Wife," it is said of the author of the comedy — '• Books... | |
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Faded ideas float in the fancy like halfforgotten dreams, and the imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted. 
