Today’s Poem: The Literary Lady
Or, The Uncharming, Uncharmable Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
As evidence that the practice of an art does not lead inevitably to virtue, let us present, as Exhibit A, Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751–1816).
Famous for such plays as The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777), as well as for his service as Treasurer of the Navy (1806…
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