Sacheverel

[Return to the letter] 2 Sir Robert Wilmot (1765-1842), 3rd Bt., and his son, Henry Sacheverel Wilmot (1801-1872), 4th Bt., of Derbyshire.

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J [ohnso] n; opera in the hands of Nicolino, Senesino, Handel, Buononcini and Attilio; the high-church idol, Sacheverel (d. 1724); the _Craftsman_

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

Sacheverel, with his rampant nonsense, had been a popular apostle, and

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Sacheverel; and he had on that account, as well as from the doubt generally entertained of his fidelity, little reason to expect from the

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Sacheverel in full canonicals, carved in ivory, 1710; a boat, a horse's hind leg, Punch, and another character in the same Drama, to wit: his Satanic majesty; a countryman with a flail; a milkmaid; an emblem of Priopus; Hope and

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Sacheverel; and as a Whig, he abjured and detested them, and hoped to see the day, not only when they should be deemed libels, but when the authors of such doctrines should be liable to punishment.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Drury Lane comedy -- and the Sacheverel show -- seemed tantalising to bear.

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

The opera had already proved a drawing attraction, but at the time here mentioned the popular interest in the performances had fallen off, and the dear and ever fickle public, of high and low degree, prefered either Drury Lane or the trial of Sacheverel to the artistic delights of music and the drama at the rival house.

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

After this Defeat of the Patentee, the Theatrical Forces of Collier in Drury-Lane, notwithstanding their having drawn the Multitude after them for about three Weeks during the Trial of Sacheverel, had made but an indifferent Campaign at the end of the Season.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

But during the Trial of Sacheverel our Audiences were extremely weaken'd by the better Rank of People's daily attending it: While, at the same time, the lower Sort, who were not equally admitted to that grand Spectacle, as eagerly crowded into Drury-Lane to a new Comedy call'd The fair Quaker of Deal.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889