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As I have heard my father and mother say, and as I have repeated, Garrick1 could not endure to see his amiable spouse ‘trip it on the light fantastic toe’; neither could young Sheridan endure to hear his sweet bride, ‘warble her native wood-notes wild’; though, to do justice to her memory, art had amply improved her strains. Some few months after their nuptials,2 our family, the Linleys, and Willoughby Lacy, spent an evening at Christmas, at Richard Brinsley’s house, in Orchard-street.3 We kept it up to a late hour; and music making part of the after-supper entertainment, Mamma Linley4 asked her daughter to sing a certain little favourite air; but a single glance from her juvenile lord and master, kept her mute.5
Henry Angelo, Reminitcmret (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830) I, 87–90. Editor’s title.
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Mary Linley, née Johnson (1729–1820), Elizabeth Linley’s mother.
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Angelo, H. (1989). Playful Talent. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Sheridan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20441-0_13
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