...guessed how full of duty I should see her mistress ! Mrs. Mai. Those are vile places, indeed ! Sir Anth. Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen...handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. Mrs. Mai. Fy, fy, Sir Anthony ! you surely speak laconically. Sir Anth. Why, Mrs. Malaprop, in moderation...

...circulating library is far too elaborate to be put in the mouth even of a stage country gentleman. "Sir Anlh. Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen...It blossoms through the year !• — and, depend upon it, Mrs. Malaprop, that they who are so fond of handling the leaves will long for the fruit at...

...guessed how full of duty I should see her mistress! Mrs. Mal. Those are vile places, indeed! Sir Anth. Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen...handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. , Mrs. Mai. Fy, fy, Sir Anthony, you surely speak laconically. Sir Anth. Why, Mrs. Malaprop, in moderation...

...women. In " The Rivals " — 1775 — Sheridan makes Sir Anthony Absolute say to Mrs. Malaprop : " Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge 1 " and certainly the books that Miss Lydia had to hide so hastily — leaves just plucked from the...

...a town is an evergreentree of diabolical knowledge which blossoms through the year; and depend upon it, Mrs, Malaprop, that they who are so fond of handling the leaves will long for the fruit at last." But let us not worry for the fate of these readers. The Lydia of to-day is not languishing; she is...

...of duty I should see her mistress! Mrs. Malaprop — Those are vile places indeed! Sir Anthony — Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen...handling the leaves will long for the fruit at last. Mrs. Malaprop — Fy, fy, Sir Anthony! you surely speak laconically. Sir Anthony — Why, Mrs. Malaprop,...

...Mrs. Malaprop's remark that circulating Libraries are vile places ; " Indeed !" he smartly says, " Madam, a circulating Library in a town is as an ever-green...handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last." When his son tells Sir Anthony that he is in love and has pledged himself to marry the lady of his...

...half-bound volumes l with which Mrs. Lucy in 'The Rivals' was wont to supply Miss Lydia Languish, — ' Madam, a Circulating Library in a town is, as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.' It is not uncharacteristic of Sheridan that something of the kind had been said before. Fifteen years...

...halfbound volumes ' with which Mrs. Lucy in 'The Rivals ' was wont to supply Miss Lydia Languish, — ' Madam, a Circulating Library in a town is, as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.' It is not uncharacteristic of Sheridan that something of the kind had been said before. Fifteen years...

...From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. d. Tempest. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 166. Keeler «. RB SHERIDAN— The Rivals. Act I. Sc. 2. Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. /. BAYABD TAYLOB...