From other sources we learn that the timing of the arrival of the ship at Cape sheridan seems to have been made good, but in an apparent effort on the part of Peary to keep faith with Bridgman on April 15, we find him in trouble.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
And yet the consequence, or certainly the sequel to Collier's attack, was the decay of the stage in every sense, from which there was no recovery till the time of Goldsmith and sheridan.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
When the 'new Whigs,' as Burke called them, Fox and sheridan, welcomed the French Revolution in 1789, they saw in it a constitutional movement of the English type and not a thorough-going democratic movement which would level all classes, and transfer the political supremacy to a different social stratum.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen