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another , rather than trust to his own powers , argues at least no superabundance of that metal upon which the faces of Irishmen have been complimented , especially in pursuit of the ladies .
The union which , of all those of professional origin , seemed to promise most for felicity , that of Elizabeth Linley with the subsequently famous Sheridan , is understood to have had but an ill result . The lady ,
daughter of Linley the composer , was beautiful , accomplished , and a fine singer ; the gentleman , a wit , a man of courage , and with , apparently , a bright and prosperous life before him . He had fought
for her with a rival , under circumstances of romantic valour ; and no one appeared so fit to carry off the warbling beauty , as he could alike protect her with the sword , and write songs fit for her to warble . But
Sheridan , with all his great talents , was not provident enough to save a wife from ordinary disquietudes , nor ( for aught that has appeared ) had he steadiness of heart enough to make her happy in spite of them ; and Miss Linley , besides the vanity
perhaps natural to a nattered beauty , and therefore a craving for admiration , wanted economy herself , and had a double portion of sensibility . It is to be doubted , whether the author of the Rivals and the School for Scandal possessed the sentiment of love in anything like proportion to the animal p assion of i t An harmonious
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nature probably left no sympathy out of the composition of his wife . The result , chiefly as it affected their fortunes , had
been intimated by Madame d'Arblay in very solemn , headshaking style . The less bounded sympathy of a * j ) oet ( Thomas Moore ) has , if we are not inistaken , delicately touched upon the remainder of the story somewhere ; but we cannot find
the passage , and it is not material to the purpose before us . It was looked upon , no doubt , as a far less daring thing to take a wife from the concert
room than the theatre , especially as Miss Linley had not long been in it , and the precedent of Anastasia Robinson ,
notwithstanding the equivocal look of her position in the first instance , had been redeemed by the graces of her understood propriety and manners , and the way in which she sustained her rank at last . But a female was
now to appear on the stage , and in comedy too , who oy singular fitness for personating the character of a gentlewoman , was justly accorded the rank
of one by common consent ; and who , by her marriage in high life , seems to have taken oft the worst part of the opprobrium from all similar unions
in future . We need not add , that we allude to Elizabeth Farren , who , in the year 1797 , upon the death of his first Countess , was married to Edward , Earl of Derby , father of the present EarL His lordship was neither young nor handsome ; the lady was pru-
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Mdrriagtejrdrii the Stage . MI
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/27/
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