...indecency, novelty, and Buffoonery were substituted for wit, sentiment, " and sense. Cumberland writes : " I have survived all true national taste, and lived...stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theater is little else than a passport to the puppets' show." Sheridan himself declared...

...disgraced my colors by abandoning the cause of the legitimate comedy, to whose service I am sworn, aad in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly...buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumphant, that now to be repulsed from the stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded...

...indecency, novelty, and buffoonery were substituted for wit, sentiment, and sense. Cumberland writes : " I have survived all true national taste, and lived...stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theater is little else than a passport to the puppets' show." Sheridan himself declared...

...entertaining the audience, I continued to amuse myself. ... I never disgraced my colors by abandoning legitimate comedy, to whose service I am sworn, and...stage is to be recommended to the closet; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppetshow." This spirit of self-satisfaction,...

...sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I havo survived all true national taste, and lived to see...stage is to be recommended to the closet; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppetshow." This spirit of self-satisfaction,...

...not his, but additions made by Cumberland. Sir Fretful found consolation. "I have survived," he says, '-all true national taste, and lived to see buffoonery,...stage is to be recommended to the closet ; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppet-show." He was not altogether...

...whose service I am sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century—till at last I have survived all true national taste, and...stage is to be recommended to the closet; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppetshow." This spirit of self-satisfaction,...

...entertaining the audience, I continued to amuse myself. ... I never disgraced my colours by abandoning legitimate comedy, to whose service I am sworn, and...stage is to be recommended to the closet ; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppet-show." This spirit of self-satisfaction,...

...for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to sec buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually...stage is to be recommended to the closet; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppetshow." This spirit of self-satisfaction,...

...for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to sec buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumph, that now to be repulsed from the stage js to be recommended to the closet ; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport...