“You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.”

—  Richard Brinsley Sheridan , The School for Scandal

Act I, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)

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Irish-British politician, playwright and writer 1751–1816

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