tty remark on divines and the tree falling, iv. 226.
SHERIDAN, Charles, iii. 284.
SHERIDAN, Mrs. Frances,
wife of Thomas Sheridan the son, i. 358, 386, n. 1, 389.
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley
(grandson of Dr. Thomas Sheridan and son of Thomas Sheridan),
birth, i. 358, n. 2;
Comedies, dates of his, iii. 116, n, 1;
_Duenna_, run of the, iii. 116, n. 1;
father, estranged from his, i. 388, n. 1;
despises his oratory, i. 394, n. 2;
funeral, i. 227, n. 4;
Johnson, compliments, in a Prologue, iii. 115;
praises his comedies, iii. 116;
projects an attack on, ii. 315, n. 3;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
election, iii. 116;
present, iii. 230, n. 5;
marriage, ii. 369;
Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83;
_Sydney Biddulph_ and _The School for Scandal_, i. 390, n. 1.
SHERIDAN, Dr. Thomas (the father),
anecdote of Swift and a country-squire, iv. 295, n. 5;
'Sherry,' ii. 258, n. 1.
SHERIDAN, Thomas (the son, father of R. B. Sheridan),
Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 91;
America, threatens to go to, iv. 2l5;
Boswell's instructor in pronunciation, ii. 159;
puns with, iv. 316;
conversation, ii. 122;
_Dictionary_, ii. 161;
Dublin Theatre, i. 386;
dull naturally, i. 453;
_Earl of Essex_, iv. 312, n. 5;
formal endings of letters, criticises, v. 239;
good, but a liar, iv. 167;
Home's gold medal, ii. 320; v. 360;
house in Bedford Street, i. 485, n. 1;
insolvent debtor, iii. 377;
Irish Parliament compliments him, iii. 377;
Johnson, account of, i. 385;
antipathy to the Scotch, iv. 169;
attack on Swift, iv. 61; v. 44, n. 3;
describes his acting, i. 358; ii. 88;
his reading, iv. 207;
pension, i. 374;
quarrels with, i. 385; iii. 115;
attacks him, i. 388; ii. 88;
irreconcileable, i. 387; iv. 222, 330;
_Lectures on the English Language_, i. 385
(See below, Oratory);
lies of vanity, iv. 167;
_Life of Swift_, i. 388; ii. 88, 319, n. 1;
miser, maintains the happiness of a, iii. 322;
'Old Mr. Sheridan,' iv. 207, n. 1;
oratory, at Bath, i. 394;
at Dublin, ib., n. 2;
described by Dr. Parr, ib.;
despised by his son, ib.;
laughed at by Johnson, i. 453; ii. 87; iv. 222;
'enthusiastic about it as ever,' iv. 207;
pension, i. 385-6;
'Sherry derry,' ii. 258;
son's marriage, his, ii. 369;
quarrels with him, i. 388, n. 1;
Wedderburne, taught, i. 386;
found him ungrate