Note 59 — Chapter IX · REMARKABLE ELECTIONS AND CONTROVERTED ELECTION PETITIONS, 1768 TO 1784.
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Sheridan, according to Lord Byron’s dictum, had produced the three best compositions of his age in their respective lines: the best comedy, “The School for Scandal;” the best parliamentary philippic, the “Begum speech” against Warren Hastings; and pronounced the finest funeral oration, the monody on Garrick.
“The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator, dramatist, minstrel who ran Through each mode of the lyre and was master of all.”