Sheridan, Vol. 1 of 2: A Biography (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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When in Canada several years ago I read with infinite pleasure a work by Mr. Fraser Rae on Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox; the Opposition under George III. The spirit in which it was exe cuted seemed to me so fair and honest, and the author showed so great a familiarity with the time and events of which he treated, that I deter mined, if an opportunity occurred, to suggest that he should undertake a complete biography of Sheridan.

I was the more inclined to do this on account of the unfortunate treatment which the subject had received at the hands of previous writers. The biography compiled by Dr. Wat kins is a piece of bookmaking of the worst type. Moore, who professed to be Sheridan's friend Wand admirer, and to whom his papers were en trusted, committed the fatal fault of planning his Memoirs of Sheridan upon too large a scale.

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