He was of far too high and veracious a nature to be capable of the disparaging tricks of a poor jealousy.

The humiliation lay in the fact that circumstances had placed Sheridan in a position, which made it natural for the world to measure them with one another.

Burke could no more like Sheridan than he could like the _Beggar's Opera_.
Sheridan had a levity, a want of depth, a laxity and dispersion of feeling, to which no degree of intellectual brilliancy could reconcile a man of such profound moral energy and social conviction as Burke.
The thought will perhaps occur to the reader that Fox was not less lax than Sheridan, and yet for Fox Burke long had the sincerest friendship.

He was dissolute, indolent, irregular, and the most insensate gambler that ever squandered fortune after fortune over the faro-table.

It was his vices as much as his politics that made George III.